Below are the 14 most-read posts over the 14 years since I launched NewYorkTheater.me on May 23, 2012, as well as a separate list of the 14 most popular posts in the 14th year of the site, which is to say between May 23, 2025 and May 23, 2026.
The first list has only one theater review, while the second list is mostly straightforward reviews of recent shows.
Some of the top-14-of-all-time remain popular. Some were only of the moment, but intensely.
1. The 50 Best Plays of The Past 100 Years
Posted June 27, 2013
This list was put together by the editors of Entertainment Weekly, with each script linked to its Amazon page. Have tastes evolved in the past 11 years, or is there a consensus that the top five remain Death of A Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Angels in America, and Fences?
2. Broadway Producer Emanuel Azenberg: “We’ve chased away an audience.”
Posted May 20, 2022
This interview at TEDx Broadway with a long-time Broadway producer complaining about Broadway ticket prices has generated a huge amount of traffic consistently since it was first posted, with occasional surges when somebody equally outraged stumbles upon it anew.
3. Hamilton on Broadway 2019: New Cast, New Clarity
Posted March 8, 2019
Anything about the musical “Hamilton” got great traffic for many years after its debut in 2015.
4. Quiz: Which character in Hamilton are you?
Originally posted July 15, 2015 (updated 2017).
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5.Hamilton on Broadway 2021. A cast of newcomers and returning favorites.
Posted September 14, 2021
Interest has lessened in intensity over the last five years
6. Poll: Worst Broadway Show of the Decade
Posted December 22, 2019
The number one choice, by 28 percent of respondents, was “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.”
7. Wicked Movie vs Stage Musical
Posted November 25, 2024
8. Broadway’s Most Entertaining Shows About Serious Social Issues
Posted August 22, 2017
9. Broadway Rush and Lottery Policies
I don’t remember when I launched this post; I periodically update it.
10. Broadway 2013-2014 Season Guide
Posted June 22, 2013
I’ve offered a Broadway season guide every year. I have no idea why the 2013-2014 has been so popular
11. Life and Trust. Review and Guide to an Immersive Paradise (and Hell)
Posted September 8, 2024
The popularity of this post was proof that , even though the show last only until April 2025, that immersive theater continues to have an audience.
12. Broadway’s Best Dance Numbers
Posted July 2, 2013.
These were the best answers to the question I posed to the readers. There are apt to be additional choices now.
13. In The Heights Movie: 10 Changes from the Broadway Musical
Posted June 12, 2021
14. Blackface on Stage: The Complicated History of Minstrel Shows
Posted February 7, 2019
This post has become a staple on college reading lists.
The 14 most-read posts on New York Theater
between May 23, 2025 and May 23, 2026
- Masquerade Review: An Immersive Phantom even for non-Phans
- All Out Comedy About Ambition
- Two Characters (Carry A Cake Across New York) Broadway Review
- The Great Gatsby
- Prince Faggot Review
- Stereophonic Review
- Wicked Movie vs Stage Musical
- The Unknown Review. Sean Hayes, Stalked
- The 50 Best Plays of The Past 100 Years
- Broadway and the Blizzard 2026: Questions and Answers
- Heathers The Musical Review
- The Last Five Years Broadway Review. Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren, mismatched.
- Cats The Jellicle Ball Review. The Queering of Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Dog Day Afternoon Broadway Review
Below are the 14 most popular posts in the 14th year of NewYorkTheater.me, which is to say between May 23, 2025 and May 23, 2026, which amounts to a kind of time capsule of theatergoers’ evolving enthusiasms.
