Continuing a tradition that dates back to 1920 this beloved annual honors 10 new plays and musicals and three regional plays cited in the Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Awards and Citations competition. As always The Best Plays Theater Yearbook includes a comprehensive collection of facts and figures about the year in United States theatre. The Best Plays of 20062007 where chosen from Broadway Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway productions of new plays that opened between June 1 2006 and May 31 2007. Essays noted below celebrate each one. The plays are Blackbird by David Harrower essay by David Cote The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl essay by Anne Marie Welsh The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard essay by Charles Wright Dying City by Christopher Shinn essay by Charles Isherwood FrostNixon by Peter Morgan essay by Charles McNulty The Pain and the Itch by Bruce Norris essay by John Istel Passing Strange by Stew and Heidi Rodewald essay by Alisa Solomon Radio Gold by August Wilson essay by Christopher Rawson The Scene by Theresa Rebeck essay by Chris Jones and Spring Awakening by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik essay by Michael Feingold. show more