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Published on 9/26/08
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Chosen by: Adam Feldman, theater writer
1 August: Osage County*
Letts’s boldly expansive, bitingly funny prairie dogfight brings the great American domestic drama thrillingly up to date. Full Review
2 Rock ’n’ Roll*
Tom Stoppard patrols the beat of history in this dazzling look at the quickening tempo of change. Full Review
3 Iphigenia 2.0
Modern mass-culture went to ancient war—with chilling results—in Charles Mee’s dynamic collage of senselessness and sacrifice. Full Review
4 The Receptionist*
Evil got a corporate overhaul in Bock’s brilliantly sneaky neo–Twilight Zone fable about the wages of evasion. Full Review
5 The Fever
The insidious Wallace Shawn toured the ugly costs of our niceties in this sobering, soul-sick monologue. Full Review
6 The Coast of Utopia
Idealism was tossed on the frothing waves of history in Stoppard’s oceanic epic of 19th-century thought. Full Review
7 100 Saints You Should Know
Kate Fodor’s achingly truthful drama discerned the faint outlines of hope in a universe of lost connections. Full Review
8 Oh, the Humanity and other exclamations
Will Eno sliced into life and its disappointments in this razor-tipped quintet of existential playlets. Full Review
9 1001
With brave, smart strokes, Grote pulled the orientalist rug out from under the conflict between West and Middle East. Full Review
10 Dividing the Estate
Cupidity’s arrow struck deep in the heart of Texas in Horton Foote’s beautifully nuanced family drama. Full Review
