The Signature and Sondheim and Shakespeare in the Park; new theaters like Lincoln Center’s Claire Tow and old ones like the Belasco on Broadway; playwriting legends like Edward Albee and future playwriting legends like Annie Baker;  Broadway record companies like Sh-K-Boom, emerging composer-lyricist teams like Pasek and Paul, Renaissance theater artists like Dave Malloy and Lin-Manuel Miranda:  These are among the choices in Time Out New York’s 50 Reason To Love NYC Theater.

But there’s a 51st reason to love New York City theater — all the Spring season preview stories such as that one….

And the Spring theater preview in the New Yorker

And the one in the New York Post Broadway’s Keeping It Real: Broadway rips its stories straight from the headlines and bigger-than-life-characters

And New York Times critic Charles Isherwood answers questions about the 2013 Spring theater season.