Billy Elliot Tops Time Magazine's Best "10 Plays and Musicals" List

By Ernio Hernandez
09 Dec 2008

Kiril Kulish in Billy Elliot
Kiril Kulish in Billy Elliot
Photo by David Scheinmann

Time Magazine has unveiled its "The Top 10 Everything of 2008," rating news, entertainment, pop culture and more. Included is the magazine's top picks for "Top 10 Plays and Musicals."

Theatre writer Richard Zoglin's choices for the best onstage in 2008 follow:

1. Billy Elliot
2. Hair
3. All My Sons
4. The Visit
5. Black Watch
6. reasons to be pretty
7. The Little Mermaid
8. Blasted
9. South Pacific
10. Farragut North

Tony Award winner Viola Davis (King Hedley II ) made the "Top 10 Movie Performances" list for her work as Mrs. Muller in the film version of John Patrick Shanley's "Doubt." (She placed just behind Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz in "The Reader.")

For more information visit time.com.