Off-Broadway's Our Town Tops New York Mag's "Best of Theater of 2009"

By Ernio Hernandez
21 Dec 2009

Our Town cast members James McMenamin, Jason Butler Harner and Jennifer Grace
Our Town cast members James McMenamin, Jason Butler Harner and Jennifer Grace
Photo by Carol Rosegg

New York Magazine has posted its "The Best of Theater of 2009" year-end list. David Cromer's staging of Our Town Off-Broadway tops the ten productions highlighted.

Contributors Scott Brown, Dan Kois, Mary Kaye Schilling and Stephanie Zacharek are credited with the top ten list. Among the Broadway and Off-Broadway fare chosen were the St. Ann Warehouse run of Brief Encounter and Robert Wilson's staging of Quartett (part of BAM's Next Wave Festival).

Here is how New York Magazine lines them up:

1. Our Town
2. A Little Night Music
3. Fela!
4. The Norman Conquests
5. Ruined
6. In the Next Room or the vibrator play
7. Brief Encounter
8. Quartett
9. Wishful Drinking
10. The Last Cargo Cult

Listed under "honorable mention" were the performances by Cate Blanchett in A Streetcar Named Desire and Janet McTeer in Mary Stuart.

For more on "The Best of Theater of 2009," visit nymag.com.