Of all the Top 10 lists I’ve assembled over the years, compiling this year’s drove me the craziest. That’s how strong 2011 has been for Washington theater — the best, in fact, in my decade of steady theatergoing in the region. As a result, some productions that might have easily topped the list in other years could not even be included on this one. I offer my congratulations and regrets to some that barely missed my cut — namely, the Kennedy Center’s “Follies,” Folger Theatre’s “Othello,” Studio Theatre’s “Penelope,” Shakespeare Theatre Company’s “Old Times” and “Krapp’s Last Tape,” Arena Stage’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” Theater J’s “The Chosen” and Forum Theatre’s “Mad Forest.” — Peter Marks
A thoroughgoing delight from the cheeky laptop of David Ives. Performed in a priceless cavalcade of rhymed couplets, Ives’s rowdy adaptation of an early 18th-century comedy by Jean-Francois Regnard was the year’s funniest play. That it had sophisticated patrons of Shakespeare Theatre Company in stitches suggests that as inspirations for humor go, the bathroom remains the most uproarious room in the house.
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