Here, we name our 10 favorite productions that took the stage this year.

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Jessica Derschowitz(Read EW’s review)

9.

Best Stage of 2019

Matthew Murphy (3); Little Fang Photo; Marc Brenner; Joan Marcus (2)

Maureen Lee Lenker(Read EW’s review)

8.

Betrayal

You might have already heard about how this play had, um,an effecton audience members.

ThisBetrayal’s cleverest move is never letting any of them leave the stage.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Joan Marcus

JD(Read EW’s review)

7.

JD

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JD(Read EW’s review)

5.

Beetlejuice

Matthew Murphy

Call it proof that not every production needs to go big to win big.

JD

4.

JD(Read EW’s review)

3.

BETRAYAL

Marc Brenner

But it’s also timeless, keeping us hoping in the possibilities of love and a better world.

We raise our cups to that.

ML (Read EW’s review)

2.

Fiddler on the Roof

Matthew Murphy

JD (Read EW’s review)

1.

They bestow a show once wrapped in the gauze of Americana with a palpable sense of danger and carnality.

And then top it all off with some chili and cornbread, served at intermission.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge takes the stage in her solo show Fleabag.(© Joan Marcus)

© Joan Marcus 2019

ML (Read EW’s review)

Little Shop of Horrors

Emilio Madrid

What the Conststution Means to Me

Joan Marcus

HADESTOWN

Matthew Murphy

Slave Play

Matthew Murphy

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Little Fang Photo