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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Richard Zoglin](https://time.com/author/richard-zoglin/) Dec 24, 2012 5:00 AM UTC by [Richard Zoglin](https://time.com/author/richard-zoglin/) Dec 24, 2012 5:00 AM UTC 1 | 4000 MILES A hippieish college student, finishing up a cross-country bike trip, arrives in New York City to stay with his grandmother; they form a bond, and family secrets are revealed. In outline, Amy Herzog’s play might seem like nothing special. But her humor, honesty and narrative subtlety make this a rarity: a family play that avoids sentimentality or sitcom shtick. Daniel Aukin’s production, which had an all-too-brief run at Lincoln Center in the spring, could not be bettered, especially Mary Louise Wilson’s poignant, unpatronizing portrayal of the cantankerous grandma. 2 | WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? In this Chicago-born production, Tracy Letts and Amy Morton (playwright and lead actress, respectively, of August: Osage County) bring no big-star airs or revisionism to Edward Albee’s classic, just a superb grasp of the cruelty that desperate people can inflict on each other. 3 | FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: ALIVE & KICKING In a bad year for new musicals, it was nice to see Gerard Alessandrini’s satirical revue return after a three-year absence, turning Broadway’s products back on their perpetrators, from Elena Roger’s lackluster Evita (“Just a/ little lack of/ star qual-i-teee”) to Matthew Broderick’s bland Gershwin recycling Nice Work if You Can Get It (“‘S Wonder Bread/ ‘S mayonnaise”). 4 | END OF THE RAINBOW Judy Garland, at the tail end of a disintegrating career, tries to hold it together during a London nightclub gig. You know exactly where Peter Quilter’s play is going, but Tracie Bennett’s interpretation of Garland’s drug-fueled breakdown is so intense and unnerving that it’s impossible to look away. 5 | LOUIS CK ON TOUR Louie’s hangdog dyspepsia is leavened by a healthy sense of perspective and even something approaching optimism in this concert (now on a nationwide tour). As a stand-up performer, he is relatively subdued onstage, but his show is as carefully crafted and deeply felt as the best work of theater. 6 | GRACE A naive evangelist from Minnesota (Paul Rudd) travels to Florida to start a chain of gospel motels. He encounters an emotionally and physically scarred next-door neighbor (Michael Shannon), a talkative exterminator (Ed Asner) and a lesson in the cruel shocks that a fallen world can inflict on the faithful. Craig Wright’s play (superbly directed on Broadway by Dexter Bullard) can be facile, but it casts a doomy spell. 7 | A CHRISTMAS STORY: THE MUSICAL For kids of a certain age, the annual highlight of TV’s holiday season wasn’t It’s a Wonderful Life but a cheesy flick about a kid who wants a BB gun for Christmas. Now it’s a delightful Broadway musical, retaining the movie’s tone of sardonic nostalgia and its catchphrases (“You’ll shoot your eye out!”) and embellishing them with a slew of sprightly songs. 8 | ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS James Corden–a manic, roly-poly, slyly engaging comic from Britain–nearly takes over the whole show in this reworking of the 18th century farce The Servant of Two Masters. As both narrator and protagonist of the daffy mistaken-identity plot (updated to 1960s Brighton), Tony winner Corden plays games with the audience, brings spectators onstage to serve as stooges and keeps us guessing as to what’s real and what’s a ruse. 9 | DETROIT Two suburban couples meet over a backyard barbecue, and one pair begins the work of disrupting the world of neatly tended lawns and carefully nurtured lies. Lisa D’Amour’s play, first staged at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, keeps taking unexpected turns as it descends into a nightmarish parable of social disconnection. 10 | ANNIE Broadway overdosed on revivals this season, but this is one I wouldn’t want to give up. Lilla Crawford is the latest precocious stage tot to belt out “Tomorrow” and help FDR solve the banking crisis, but the real star is the Charles Strouse–Martin Charnin score, which is as easy to take and as hard to shake off as when we first heard it. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6642946/theater/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6642946/theater/"},"headline":"Theater","datePublished":"2012-12-24T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T16:29:15.043Z","description":"1 | 4000 MILES A hippieish college student, finishing up a cross-country bike trip, arrives in New York City to stay with his grandmother; they form a bond, and family secrets are revealed. 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