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Best of theater 2011: Charles McNulty

Under Garry Hynes' keen direction, this revival of Martin McDonagh's jolly dark comedy about the havoc wrought in a small community when a Hollywood film crew invades one of the Aran Islands was raucously funny. Pictured: Laurence Kinlan as Bartley.

Under Garry Hynes’ keen direction, this revival of Martin McDonagh’s jolly dark comedy about the havoc wrought in a small community when a Hollywood film crew invades one of the Aran Islands was raucously funny.

Pictured: Laurence Kinlan as Bartley.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

'The Normal Heart,' John Golden Theatre, New York

Larry Kramer’s momentous cri de coeur over the laggard public response to the AIDS epidemic in this country in the early 1980s lost none of its urgency in this potent Broadway production directed by George C. Wolfe and Joel Grey.

Pictured: Joe Mantello.  (Joan Marcus / AP / The O and M Co.)

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