From an unlikely Broadway musical featuring music from the Avett Brothers to a campy farce about Mary Todd Lincoln and the assassination of her husband to Audra McDonald scaling the mountain of an American classic, TheWrap critic Robert Hofler ranks the 10 best New York theater production of 2024.
10. “Swept Away” on Broadway
Using Avett Brothers songs, Jordan Logan’s book tells a true and riveting tale of cannibalism on the high seas. And man eating man isn’t even the shocking part. John Gallagher Jr. delivers the year’s best performance by an actor in a musical. Michael Mayer directs.
