London Imports and Good, Old-Fashioned Revivals

NYTimes.com: "ACCORDING to all current maps the theater district known as Broadway is still in Manhattan, while its British counterpart, the West End, is firmly based in London. Yet a majority of the items in the list below might have been culled from either place. This was the year of trans-Atlantic theater in New York, when Anglo-American cooperation (a subject wittily excoriated this season in Caryl Churchill’s “Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?” at the Public Theater) produced a hearty crop of expertly mounted — and in some cases transcendent — productions. The year’s best new musical (“Billy Elliot”) originated in the West End, and the most important New York premiere (“Blasted”) was a production of a show first seen in London more than a decade ago."