Best Theater of 2009

'The Lily's Revenge'

A love story about the cosmic battle between originality and cliché? A dialectic about a flower's quest to become human? A five-hour epic about the rights and rites of marriage (gay, straight, both, and none of the above)? Bursting with costumes, sets and a cast of 40+, Taylor Mac's “Lily” was a visionary ode to creativity itself.