Our Favorite Plays of 2023

Greg Corbino's set for Snatch Adams at SoHo Rep

Each year, Theater in Asylum releases a list of plays, books, movies, and more that delighted us, challenged us, and changed us. Below is our first list, a crowd-sourced list of plays our community loved in 2023.

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Katie and Paul at the Britney Spears musical

• And The World Goes Round music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb
  
• Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Lila Neugebauer (Second Stage)
  
• A Brief List of Everyone Who's Died by Jacob Marx Rice, directed by Alex Howarth (Bridge Theatre)
  
• Buena Vista Social Club, book by Marco Ramirez, music by Buena Vista Social Club, directed by Saheem Ali (Broadway)
  
• The Comeuppance by Brandon Jacob Jenkins, Directed by Eric Ting (Signature Theater)
  
• The Creeps, created by Catherine Waller (Playhouse 46 at St. Luke’s) 
  
• Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, directed by Miranda Cromwell (Broadway)
  
• The Doctor, created by Robert Icke (Park Avenue Armory)
  
• English, by Sanaz Toossi, directed by Knud Adams (Atlantic)
  
• Gutenberg! The Musical!, by Scott Brown & Anthony King, directed by Alex Timbers (Broadway)
  
• Guys and Dolls, Music & lyrics by Frank Loesser, Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, Directed by Nicholas Hytner (West End)
  
• Here We Are, Music by Stephen Sondheim, Book by David Ives, Directed by Joe Mantello (The Shed)
  
• The Idiots of the World Unite Against the Idiot System Circus by Bread and Puppet (Theater for the New City)
  
• Jaja's African Hair Braiding, by Jocelyn Bioh, directed by Whitney White (Broadway)
  
• Kimberly Akimbo, Music by Jeanine Tesori, Book and Lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire, Directed b Jessica Stone (Broadway)
  
• Life on the third rail, or a subway delay to the future, Written and Directed by Crystal Field, Music by Joseph Vernon Banks (Theater for the New City)
  
• Merrily We Roll Along,  music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by George Furth, directed by Maria Friedman (New York Theater Workshop)
  
• The Nobodies Who Were Everybody, created by Theater in Asylum (Jalopy Theater)
  
• Prima Facie, by Suzie Miller, directed by Justin Martin (Broadway)
  
• Snatch Adams: It’s That Time of the Month by Becca Blackwell (SoHo Rep)
  
• Some Like It Hot, Book by Matthew López & Amber Ruffin, Music by Marc Shaiman, Lyrics by Scott Wittman, Directed by Casey Nicholaw (Broadway)
  
• Titanique,  created by Tye Blue, Marla Mindelle, and Constantine Rousouli (Daryl Roth)
  
• What Else is True? By David Rosenberg  Directed by Jake Beckhard and Adam Coy (Gural Theatre, ART/NY)
  

Paul and Linda at Bread and Puppet's Inflammatory Earthling Rants in Ithaca

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