NewsProducers, Hairspray, Exonerated Top Year-End Regional Theatre Lists for 2003While New York dailies toil over Broadway and Off-Broadway productions for their year-end lists, publications in the across the country turn their focus on local theatre stagings in the regions.
By
Ernio Hernandez
January 01, 2004
Touring productions of The Producers, Hairspray, Urinetown and The Exonerated were enjoyed across the country. Works that fared well in New York, including The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, Copenhagen, Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, were among the top selected regionally produced shows, as were out-of-town presentations that played (or will play) New York stages, including Wicked, Sixteen Wounded, Anna in the Tropics and The Long Christmas Ride Home.
Here's a running list of some of the top theatrical productions from across the country:
Hartford Courant (Connecticut): (in order of appearance)
Sixteen Wounded (Long Wharf Theatre)
Triumph of Love (Long Wharf Theatre)
Four (Hartford's TheaterWorks)
The Beggar's Opera (International Festival of Arts & Ideas)
Dralion (Cirque du Soleil)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch with Anthony Rapp (Hartford Stage)
Hairspray (Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts)
Eight By Tenn with Amanda Plummer and Annalee Jefferies (Hartford Stage)
As You Like It directed by Peter Hall (Shubert Theater)
The Dazzle (Hartford's TheaterWorks) The Boston Globe (Massachusetts): (not in list form)
Actress Leigh Barrett in Jacques Brel... (Gloucester Stage Company), Follies In Concert (Overture Productions), A Class Act (SpeakEasy Stage Company) and Sweeney Todd (New Repertory Theatre).
American Repertory Theatre (Rinde Eckert's Highway Ulysses and directors Peter Sellars, Anne Bogart, Robert Woodruff)
Broadway in Boston (The Producers, Hairspray, The Exonerated)
New Repertory Theatre (Waiting for Godot, Sweeney Todd, A Girl's War)
Gloucester Stage Company (Jacques Brel...,Sins of the Mother, The Indian Wants the Bronx)
North Shore Music Theatre (West Side Story, Pacific Overtures, Memphis)
Shakespeare & Company (Vita & Virginia, The Fly-Bottle, Lettice and Lovage)
Huntington Theatre Company (Butley)
Trinity Repertory Company (The Long Christmas Ride Home, Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience)
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre (A New War) The Star-Ledger (New Jersey): (in alphabetical order)
The Afghan Women (Passage Theatre Company, Trenton)
Anna in the Tropics (McCarter/Berlind Theatre, Princeton)