DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2016 #1: Best Musicals in Professional Theaters in DC/MD/VA

Here are the DCMetroTheaterArts Staff’s honorees for Best Musicals in Professional Theaters in 2016. Congrats to all our honorees!

A Christmas Carol at Toby’s The Dinner Theatre of Columbia.

A Christmas Story: The Musical at The Hippodrome Theatre.

A Christmas Story: The Musical at Riverside Center for the Performing Arts.

American Idiot at The Keegan Theatre.

Black Nativity at Theater Alliance.

Black Pearl Sings! at MetroStage.

Born for This: The Be Be and Ce Ce Winans Story at Arena Stage.

Cabaret at The Hippodrome Theatre.

Caroline, or Change at Creative Cauldron.

Carousel at Arena Stage.

Catch Me If You Can at NextStop Theatre Company.

Children of Eden at Young Artists of America at Strathmore.

City of Angels at NextStop Theatre Company.

Come From Away at Ford’s Theatre.

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast at Charm City Players.

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast at Imagination Stage.

Disney’s The Little Mermaid at Mount Vernon Community Children’s Theatre.

Evita at Olney Theatre Center.

Floyd Collins at 1st Stage.

Freaky Friday at Signature Theatre.

Gypsy at Washington County Playhouse Dinner Theater and Children’s Theater.

Hairspray at Toby’s The Dinner Theatre of Columbia.

Heathers at Red Branch Theatre Company.

The Fiasco Theater’s Into the Woods at The Kennedy Center.

James and the Giant Peach at Adventure Theatre.

Jelly’s Last Jam at Signature Theatre.

Jersey Boys at The Hippodrome Theatre.

Kinky Boots at The Kennedy Center.

Kiss Me Kate at Washington County Playhouse Dinner Theater and Children’s Theater.

Knuffle Bunny at Adventure Theatre.

La Cage aux Folles at Signature Theatre.

Lost in the Stars at Washington National Opera.

Mary Poppins at Encore Stage & Studio.

Mary Poppins at Olney Theatre Center.

Million Dollar Quartet at Infinity Theatre.

Monty Python’s Spamalot at Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre & Children’s Theatre.

Monsters of the Villa Diodati at Creative Cauldron.

Motown: The Musical at Hippodrome Theatre at The France-Merrick Performing Arts Center.

Murder Ballad at StillPointe Theatre Initiative.

My Fair Lady at Riverside Center for the Performing Arts.

Next To Normal at The Keegan Theatre.

110 In the Shade at Ford’s Theatre.

Oklahoma! at Riverside Center for the Performing Arts.

Over Her Dead Body at Pinky Swear Productions at The Capital Fringe.

Ruthless! at Creative Cauldron.

Seussical The Musical at Children’s Theatre of Annapolis.

Shake Loose at MetroStage.

Sister Act at Toby’s The Dinner Theatre of Columbia.

Snow White at Encore Stage & Studio.

South Pacific at Toby’s The Dinner Theatre of Columbia.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at Red Branch Theatre Company.

Symphonic The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Landless Theatre Company.

The Buddy Holly Story at Riverside Center for the Performing Arts.

The Bridges of Madison County at The Kennedy Center.

The Little Mermaid at Imagination Stage.

The Mikado by The Hypocrites at Olney Theatre Company.

The Phantom of the Opera at The Kennedy Center.

The Pirates of Penzance at Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre.

The Rocky Horror Show at Iron Crow Theatre.

The Rocky Horror Show at Maryland Ensemble Theatre.

The Secret Garden at Shakespeare Theatre Company.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at StillPointe Theatre Initiative.

The Who’s Tommy at Open Circle Theatre.

Titanic The Musical at Signature Theatre.

Urinetown at Constellation Theatre Company.

Wicked at The Kennedy Center.

The Wild Party at Iron Crow Theatre.

HOW WE SELECTED OUR HONOREES

DCMetroTheaterArts writers were permitted to honor productions and concerts, dance, and operas that they saw and reviewed and productions and concerts and dance performances that they saw but did not review. Every honoree was seen. These are not nominations. There is no voting.

The staff is honoring productions, performances, direction, and design in professional, community, university, high school, and children’s theatres, and are also honoring the same in musical venues. We are honoring work in Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia, Philadelphia, PA, New Jersey, and Delaware.

DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2016 #5: Best Plays In Community Theaters in DC/MD/VA.

DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2016 #6: Best Plays in Professional Theaters in Philadelphia, New York, Delaware, and New Jersey.

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