THEATER we loved in 2025

Each year, Theater in Asylum releases a list of plays, books, movies, and more that delighted us, challenged us, and changed us. Below is a crowd-sourced list of theater our community loved in 2025.

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 2026.

A scene from Boxcutter Collective’s production of Dimension Zero, created by the Boxcutter Collective at HERE (photo by Richard Termine).

• Arborlogues at The Cell (co-created by Dan Daly!)
• As You Like It (directed by Arisael Rivera!)
• Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club on Broadway
• Chess on Broadway
• Dimension Zero at HERE (created by our friends at The Boxcutter Collective)
• Emma at the Rose Theatre
• English on Broadway
• Evita on the West End
• Fat Ham at Virginia Stage Company
• Faust (Opera by Gounod) at Baruch
• Glass. Kill. What if if only. Imp. (Caryl Churchill shorts) at The Public
  
• The Gospel at Colonus at Little Island
• Hot Wing King at Denver Center for Performing Arts
• Hurricane Diane at Hartford Stage
• Kowalski at The Duke
• John Proctor is the Villain on Broadway
• Liberation on Broadway
• Lights Out at NYTW
• Lincoln Bio at Brick Aux (created by Adin Lenahan!)
• The Loneliness of Either/Or, a Requiem for Joan of Arc at Ars Nova (created by Ali Dineen!)
• Manifest Destiny at Teatro Latea (featuring Jesse B. Koehler!)
• Mexodus at Minetta Lane
• My Neighbor Totoro on the West End)
• Meet the Cartozians at Second Stage
• Octet at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival)
• Old Friends at MTC
• Operation Mincemeat on Broadway
• Bread & Puppet’s Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution in Progress Circus at the Old Stone House (featuring Paul Bedard!)
• Practice at Playwrights at Playwrights Horizons
• Prince Faggot at Playwrights Horizons
• Ragtime at Lincoln Center
• Stories Will Not Mend This Broken World at Brick Aux (written by Willie Johnson!)
• Tiler Peck and Friends at City Center

Paul as Lucifer in Bread & Puppet's Circus (photo by Queenie Si)

The view from Arborlogues (photo by Dan Daly)

Stories Will Not Mend This Broken World at Brick Aux (photo by Ryan Prado)