Seat Filler: Best NYC Theater of 2009

4. The Brother/Sister Plays
Featured in The Advocate’s 2009 “Forty Under 40” issue, Wig Out! playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney made a triumphant return with this trilogy of connected yet stand-alone plays performed in rep at the Public Theater. Part 2 included The Brothers Size and Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet, which focused on sexual identity and featured many of the same characters in a rural Louisiana town. In Brothers a man reconnected with the pal he seduced in prison. In Marcus that same man’s son explored his own “sweet” tendencies with ghetto-fab girlfriends and a sketchy down-low thug. A skilled storyteller, McCraney added spoken-word sass by making his electric ensemble voice its own stage directions.