“Hamilton” made the top or near the top of every critics’ top 10 theater list so far for shows that opened in New York in 2015, with the exception of Charles Isherwood, who deliberately left Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical off his list, writing “that fine show has been hosanna-ed so thoroughly that it hardly needs more recognition, at least until the inevitable Pulitzer and Tony Awards add to its luster.” Other popular choices: The King and I, Fun Home, A View from the Bridge, King Charles III, Hir.

Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos and Lin-Manuel Miranda in Hamilton 2015 King and I Fun Home with Gabriella Pizzolo and Michael Cerveris A View from the Bridge Hir

Here are drama critics’ lists of Top 10 theater for 2015. (Some deviate from a literal Top 10 list.) I will add more of these top 10 lists as they become available.

Jonathan Mandell, in New York Theater

Hamilton

Spring Awakening

Fun Home

Hir

Hand to God

Barbecue

An American in Paris

The Nether

The King and I

Empire Travel Agency

The Way They Live

Theatre For One (I’m Not The Stranger You Think I Am)

Before Their Very Eyes

Ben Brantley, New York Times

Hamilton

King Charles III

A View from the Bridge

Gloria

Constellations

Fool for Love

The King and I

Skylight

The Color Purple

Wolf Hall

Mark Kennedy, Associated Press

Hamilton

Fun Home

An American in Paris

King Charles III

The King and I

Constellations

A View from the Bridge

Something Rotten

Skylight

Spring Awakening

Richard Zoglin, Time

King Charles III

Hamilton

“Arthur Miller’s Centennial (A View from the Bridge and Incident at Vichy)

The King and I

The Christians

The Visit

Constellations

John

Finding Neverland

Wolf Hall

Lazarus

Jesse Green, New York Magazine

The Humans

Hamilton

An Octoroon

A View from the Bridge

Heisenberg

Whorl Inside a Loop

The Christians

Theatre for One (I’m not the Stranger You Think I Am)

John

Hir

Charles Isherwood, New York Times

John

The Humans

The Christians

Hir

Significant Other

The Mystery of Love and Sex

Eclipsed

Small Mouth Sounds

An American in Paris

Spring Awakening

Adam Feldman and David Cote, Time Out New York

Hamilton

A View From The Bridge

The Humans

King Charles III

John

10 out of 12

Hir

Eclipsed

Something Rotten

Skylight

(This is the first 10 of a list of 20, which excludes Broadway transfers of shows that opened Off-Broadway in previous years — so, no Fun Home)

David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter

(top 10 in list of 20)

Hamilton

A View from the Bridge

The King and I

The Humans

Fun Home

The Color Purple

Constellations

John

King Charles III

An American in Paris

Marc Snetiker, Entertainment Weekly

Hamilton

Fun Home

King Charles III

An American in Paris

The Audience

Skylight

Wolf Hall

A View From The Bridge

The King and I

The Color Purple

Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

(top 10 specifically on Broadway 2015)

Fun Home

Hamilton

A View from the Bridge

The Color Purple

The Visit

Skylight

Constellations

Hand to God

King Charles III

The Audience

Show-Score

This new New York theater aggregation site is not offering its own opinion – rather it has come up with its list by calculating the combined scores by the various critics and its thousands of members to come up with the most popular productions.

Hamilton

Fun Home

Spring Awakening

The King and I

Something Rotten

A View from the Bridge

The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey

Allegiance

An American in Paris

Hand to God

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