Here’s my final rankings in theater, musical theater, opera, and dance for this year’s Spoleto. You’ll notice three of these are Piccolo events, one of which is comedy. Remember this is entirely subjective.
1. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
2. Low Tide Hotel (yes, this is a Piccolo Spoleto performance)
3. The Great War by Hotel Modern
4. Amistad
5. Monkey: Journey to the West
6. Donna Uchizono Company (dance)
7. the break/s by Marc Bamuthi Joseph
8. The Cody Rivers Show (Piccolo)
9. The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac
10. The Burial at Thebes by the Nottingham Playhouse
11. Heddy Maalem’s The Rite of Spring
12. Shantala Shivalingappa
13. Cloud Tectonics (Piccolo)
14. La Cenerentola
15. Ballet Du Grand Theatre De Geneve
16. Boston Ballet
17. Laurie Anderson’s Homeland
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