4 “Finest Books of the twenty first Century” for theater lovers – New York Theater

The 100 Finest Books of the twenty first Century, as compiled by the New York Instances, contains no performs, nor any non-fiction books concerning the theater. I might need featured a minimum of two of the dozen nice theater books printed previously decade that . However there are 4 books on the Instances checklist that do have a robust connection to the theater, though circuitously.

Ranked 3. Wolf Corridor by Hilary Mantel
Description: “In “Wolf Corridor” she took a starchy historic personage, Thomas Cromwell, and noticed the vivid, relentless, blind-spotted, memory-haunted, grandly alive human being he will need to have been. “
Theater connection: Mike Poulton turned the novel and its sequel “Carry Up The Our bodies.” right into a two-part play on Broadway in 2015, “Wolf Corridor Elements 1 and a couple of.”

Ranked 11: The Temporary Wondrous Lifetime of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Description: “Díaz’s first novel landed like a meteorite in 2007, dazzling critics and prize juries with its mixture of Dominican historical past, coming-of-age story, comic-book tropes, Tolkien geekery and Spanglish slang….”
Theater connection: Tailored by Marco Antonio Rodriguez right into a play at Repertoire Espanol in 2019

Ranked 12: The Yr of Magical Considering by Joan Didion
Description: “Having for many years forged a famously cool and implacable eye on all the things from the Manson household to El Salvador, Didion all of the sudden discovered herself in a hellscape a lot nearer to house: the abrupt demise of her accomplice in life and artwork, John Gregory Dunne, whilst their solely little one lay unconscious in a close-by hospital room”
Theater connection: Tailored by Didion right into a solo play on Broadway in 2007, starring Vanessa Redgrave

Ranked 35: Enjoyable House by Alison Bechdel
Description: “A queer enterprise.” That’s how Bechdel describes her closeted father’s demise after he steps within the path of a Sunbeam Bread truck. The phrase additionally applies to her household’s funeral house concern; their very own Victorian, Addams-like dwelling; and this marvelous graphic memoir of rising up homosexual and O.C.D.-afflicted (which generated a outstanding Broadway musical).”
Theater connection: Tailored by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori right into a (sure, outstanding) Tony-winning Broadway musical in 2015.