A 2025 10 Best List

Joseph Monseur. (Photo credit: Niko Stycos)

Two new dramas by an unheralded New York playwright, a Clifford Odets revival, and a Beckett triple bill were among the outstanding productions this year.

Zooman and the Sign

Isaiah Joseph. (Photo credit: Jonathan Slaff)

A powerful revival of Charles Fuller’s 1980 Black family drama; a 12-year-old girl is shot to death; her family grieves and her 15-year-old killer vents.

Of The Dream That Was My Life…

Kristyn Koczur.

French sculptor Camille Claudel’s tumultuous life and tempestuous relationship with Auguste Rodin are dramatized in this absorbing theatrical depiction.