Patrick Healy Looks Back at Theater in 2011

NYTimes.com: RARELY does a Broadway show become one of the biggest cultural news stories of the year. But “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” had more offstage intrigue than any production in recent memory — as well as a record-setting budget of $75 million, six delays to its opening night and the gold-plated creative team of U2’s Bono and the Edge and the director Julie Taymor. So it’s no surprise that from beginning to end Spidey dominated the year in theater news. But his wasn’t the only story (just about a third of them, in this modest account):