Continuing a tradition I started when I began this blog – here are the best read stories of 2014, of 2013, and of 2012 – here are my most-read posts from 2015:
(This is a bit of a sly dodge on my part, since some of my best-read posts in 2015 were written in previous years – such as The 50 Best Plays of The Past 100 Years, and Broadway’s Best Dance Numbers and Social Media On Stage: Theater Meets Twitter,Facebook,Youtube, Tumbler, Soundcloud…,)
Hamilton
Several of my top posts in 2015 were about the top musical, Hamilton.
The most popular of these was my Hamilton Quiz:
Quiz: Which character in Hamilton are you?
Then there was my post about its opening on Broadway Hamilton on Broadway: Review, Photos, Video
Third in this group was my review Off-Broadway: Hamilton Review: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hip-Hopped History Musical
Finally, an interview: An Aaron Burr Who’s Not The Villain: Leslie Odom Jr in Hamilton
Watch: Christian Borle as Sexy Shakespeare: It’s Hard to Be The Bard (video + lyrics)
Top 10 New York Theater To Be Grateful for in 2015
Fulfillment Review: Thomas Bradshaw’s X-Rated Modern Day Job
What Audience Engagement Means…and What It Shouldn’t Mean (Ageism)
Mercury Fur review: A Vile, Violent Future In An Atrocious Play
Theater vs. Theatre, Revisited
Similar end-of-year best-read posts from some of my favorite theater bloggers.
Howlround offers its 2015 NewCrit in Review. (The three best-read stories in the NewCrit section of Howlround are articles I wrote for them:
Who’s An Amateur? Shows for Days and The Evolving Definition of “Professional”
Hamilton: Five Ways Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hip-Hopped History Musical Breaks New Ground
Audience Participation: Do Taylor Mac et al Tickle or Terrify? )
Here’s a link to all of Howlround’s 2015 Retrospectives
If and when other of my favorite bloggers put up such posts — such as Bitter Gertrude — I’ll add them here.
