Publisher's Synopsis
Continuing a tradition that dates back to 1920 this beloved annual honors 10 new plays and musicals and three regional plays cited in the Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Awards and Citations competition. As always ÊThe Best Plays Theater YearbookÊ includes a comprehensive collection of facts and figures about the year in United States theatre.ÞThe Best Plays of 2006-2007 where chosen from Broadway Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway productions of new plays that opened between June 1 2006 and May 31 2007. Essays noted below celebrate each one.ÞThe plays are: ÊBlackbirdÊ by David Harrower (essay by David Cote); ÊThe Clean HouseÊ by Sarah Ruhl (essay by Anne Marie Welsh); ÊThe Coast of UtopiaÊ by Tom Stoppard (essay by Charles Wright); ÊDying CityÊ by Christopher Shinn (essay by Charles Isherwood); ÊFrost/NixonÊ by Peter Morgan (essay by Charles McNulty); ÊThe Pain and the ItchÊ by Bruce Norris (essay by John Istel); ÊPassing StrangeÊ by Stew and Heidi Rodewald (essay by Alisa Solomon); ÊRadio GoldÊ by August Wilson (essay by Christopher Rawson); ÊThe SceneÊ by Theresa Rebeck (essay by Chris Jones); and ÊSpring AwakeningÊ by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik (essay by Michael Feingold.).
