Best of 2022

The best entertainment of the year, as chosen by Vultures critics.

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The pandemic and the afterburning spikes of new, more infective variants loom large over the whole industry.

10.Funny Girl(Leas Version)

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It feels both wrong to putFunny Girlon a top 10 list and wrong to leave it off.

She did, in fact, do what she was hired to do:save the show.

9.A Case for the Existence of God

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8.The Skin of Our Teeth

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More directors should get to run wild on as large a scale as Lileana Blain-Cruz did here.

7.Wedding Band

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6.Hamlet

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Im still laughing about his return from exile in England wearing a Hawaiian shirt.

5.A Strange Loop

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It is, after all, a big, Black, queer-ass AmericanBroadwayshow.

4.Kimberly Akimbo

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3.Oratorio for Living Things

3.

2.The Nosebleed

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Theyre gathered by those actors and transformed into something else through a bit of theatrical funerary ritual.

Your parents, the point felt, are the sum of so many questions you dont ask.

Then Ayas father participated in some karaoke with Princess Diana.

1.Into the Woods

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Among innumerable standouts, special props to Heather Headleys Imthe witch?

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