Best in theater for 2012 | Charles McNulty

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'Clybourne Park,' Mark Taper Forum'Death of a Salesman,' Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre'Follies,' Ahmanson Theatre.'In the Red and Brown Water,' Fountain Theatre'Ivanov,' Odyssey Theatre'Jitney,' South Coast Repertory and Pasadena Playhouse'Krapp's Last Tape,' Kirk Douglas Theatre'Our Town,' the Broad Stage'Waiting for Godot,' Mark Taper Forum'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' Broadway's Booth Theatre

Bruce Norris constructed a provocative history of the house that the African American Younger family is heading to at the end of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun." An impeccable ensemble, under the direction of Pam MacKinnon, helped this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama capture the Tony Award for best play after the production went on to Broadway.

'Clybourne Park,' Mark Taper Forum

( Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times )

Bruce Norris constructed a provocative history of the house that the African American Younger family is heading to at the end of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun." An impeccable ensemble, under the direction of Pam MacKinnon, helped this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama capture the Tony Award for best play after the production went on to Broadway.

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