Passion Play, Gypsy, South Pacific Top New Yorker's 'Ten Best Plays of 2008' List

Passion Play, Gypsy, South Pacific Top New Yorker's "Ten Best Plays of 2008" List

News Passion Play, Gypsy, South Pacific Top New Yorker's "Ten Best Plays of 2008" List

Dec 15, 2008

Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play, along with revivals of William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, Anton Chekhov and Clifford Odets, are among the choices The New Yorker's "The Ten Best Plays of 2008" list.

Kathleen Chalfant as Queen Elizabeth, Hitler and Reagan in Passion Play — Kathleen Chalfant as Queen Elizabeth, Hitler and Reagan in *Passion Play* Photo by Joan Marcus

Longtime theatre critic John Lahr named the shows on the new list, which also includes two musical revivals (South Pacific and Gypsy) as well as a reading of Arthur Kopit's Discovery of America.

Here are the New Yorker's top choices for 2008:

The Seagull

Othello (Donmar Warehouse)

Macbeth

Endgame (BAM)

The Country Girl

South Pacific

Passion Play (Yale Repertory Theatre)

Pitmen Painters (National Theatre)

Gypsy

Discovery of America (Lincoln Center) Also of note to theatre folk: New Yorker writer Hilton Als included Carey Mulligan (Nina in The Seagull) and S. Epatha Merkerson (Come Back, Little Sheba) among "The Eleven Best Performances of Stage and Screen."

For more on The New Yorker, visit newyorker.com.

Passion Play, Gypsy, South Pacific Top New Yorker's "Ten Best Plays of 2008" List

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