Our favorite THEATER of 2024

A dedication plaque outside the Hallie Flanagan Davis Theatre in Poughkeepsie, NY

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 THEATER our community loved in 2024.


Thank you to the community who made and loved art this year! Please consider donating to Theater in Asylum so we can keep it going in 2025.

• The Ally at Public Theater
• The Blood Quilt by Katori Hall at Lincoln Center Theater
• Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage at Virginia Stage Company
• Boys on the Verge of Tears by Sam Grabiner at Soho Theater
• Burnout Paradise at St Ann’s
• Cable Street at Southwark Playhouse
• Cats: The Jellicle at PAC

CATS: The Jellicle Ball at PAC

• Cult of Love at Second Stage
• Doubt at Roundabout
• The Following Evening created by 600 Highwaymen at the Perelman
• Giant by Mark Rosenblatt at Royal Court
• Good Bones by James Ijames at The Public
• Gray Lady Cantata #9 by Bread & Puppet at Theater for the New City
• Grenfell: in the Words of Survivors at St. Ann's Warehouse
• The How to Survive the End of the World Cabaret at Jalopy
• Illinoise by Sufjan Stevens & Jackie Sibblies Drury on Broadway
• Imperfect Allies
• Job, starring Sydney Lemon at 2nd Stage
• Lempicka at Longacre Theater
• McNeal by Ayad Akhtar at Lincoln Center
• A Midsummer Night's Dream by Island Stage Left in San Juan Island, WA
• Merrily We Roll Along​

• Mother Play by Paula Vogel at 2nd Stage
• Mulberry Tree at LaMama
• Nachtland by Marius von Mayenburg at Young Vic Theater
• Once Upon a Mattress with Sutton Foster and Michael Urie
• Our Class by Tadeusz Słobodzianek at Classic Stage Company
• Open Throat, directed by Caitlin O’Connell at Little Island
• Pins and Needles by Rob Drummond at Kiln Theater
• Philadelphia Here I Come by Brian Friel at Irish Rep
• Prayer for French Republic by Joshua Harmon at Manhattan Theater Club
• Ragtime at City Center
• Redlands by Charlotte Jones at Chichester Festival Theater
• Suffs on Broadway
• Three Scenes in the Life of a Trotskyist by Andy Boyd at The Tank
• Wrack Zone by Eli Nixon at Ars Nova