As my best-read posts from 2016 below make clear, some theater trends stay strong year after year: Anything about “Hamilton” is still popular nearly two years after the musical first opened, Off-Broadway. And many of my most popular posts this year were written before 2016.
5 BEST-READ POSTS IN 2016
1. The 50 Best Plays of The Past 100 Years, According to Entertainment Weekly
2. Quiz: Which character in Hamilton are you?
Close in popularity to this quiz was another Hamilton Quiz, put together this year.
3. Broadway’s Best Dance Numbers
Videos of 10 dance numbers from Broadway musicals that readers voted the best ever (including Electricity from Billy Elliot, pictured above)
4. Broadway 2013-2014 Season Guide
I have no idea why this particular Broadway season preview guide is so popular three years later, especially since only two shows from that season are still running (Aladdin and Beautiful.) Maybe somebody can explain? Meanwhile, here’s the Broadway 2016-2017 Season Guide.
The documentary about the making of “Hamilton” the musical and the history of Alexander Hamilton
5 BEST-READ REVIEWS IN 2016
The Grand Paradise: Bushwick’s Titillating Tropical Resort
Hamilton : Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hip-Hopped History Musical
The Radicalization of Rolfe: A gay Nazi’s version of The Sound of Music.
Amazing Grace
Hadestown: A Hell of a Musical
BEST-READ PROFILES IN 2016
Noah Robbins on Grease Live, His First Musical Since High School
An Aaron Burr Who’s Not The Villain: Leslie Odom Jr in Hamilton
Santino Fontana’s Act One, The Unluckiest Lucky Actor In New York
Bowie, Bogosian and Bobby Moreno
TOP 5 EVENT POSTS IN 2016
Broadway and the Blizzards of 2016
Hillary Quotes Hamilton in Convention Speech
The Theater must always be a safe and special place.The cast of Hamilton was very rude last night to a very good man, Mike Pence. Apologize!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 19, 2016
It’s ok Donald it’s just “Theatre Talk”. Sorta like “locker room talk” except in that it was completely thought out & respectful. https://t.co/aGtEbgc1vo
— Colin Donnell (@colindonnell) November 19, 2016
Hamilton Cast to VP Elect Mike Pense: Respect Us (Trump Replies: Apologize)
2016 Kilroy’s List of Good but Unproduced Plays by Women
Broadway for Hillary
