BroadwayWorld's 2014 List of Lists Roundup- Updating Live!

As we count down the last days of 2014, New York City's top theatre critics have been taking stock of the theatre season- deciding on their personal choices for their favorite productions of the year. With so many stellar plays, musicals, revivals and new works, both on Broadway and off, a slew of shows have gained recognition from the critics this year.

Below, check out our roundup of 'Best of' lists for theatre this year. Be sure to check back later for new additions as they're released!

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Ben Brantley, New York Times (click here for his full list):

1. Appropriate and An Octoroon
2. Saint Joan, Hamlet and Sense and Sensibility
3. Between Riverside and Crazy
4. The Cripple of Inishmaan
5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
6. A Doll's House
7. I Remember Mama
8. Measure for Measure
9. On the Town
10. Scenes From a Marriage and Angels in America

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Charles Isherwood, New York Times (click here for his full list):

1. Basetrack Live
2. Straight White Men
3. Violet
4. Bootycandy
5. Generations
6. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
7. Disgraced
8. Side Show
9. The Realistic Joneses'
10. Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

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Jason Clark/Marc Snetiker, Entertainment Weekly (click here for the full list):

1. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2. Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3
3. You Can't Take It With You
4. Between Riverside and Crazy
5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
6. Sticks and Bones
7. The Cripple of Inishmaan
8. Red-Eye to Havre de Grace
9. Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
10. Violet

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Jesse Green, Vulture (click here for his full list):

1. Audra McDonald in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
2. Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
3. Love and Information
4. Dinner With Friends
5. Machinal
6. Stage Kiss
7. The Killer
8. Scenes From a Marriage
9. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
10. If/Then

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David Cote, Time Out New York (click here for his full list):

1. Machinal
2. You Can't Take It With You
3. Straight White Men
4. The Killer
5. Bootycandy
6. Stop Hitting Yourself
7. The Open House
8. Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
9. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
10. The Fortress of Solitude

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Adam Feldman, Time Out New York (click here for his full list):

1. Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
2. Hand to God
3. An Octoroon
4. Cabaret
5. Jacuzzi
6. Love and Information
7. You Got Older
8. The Heir Apparent
9. Our Lady of Kibeho
10. Bootycandy

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Richard Zoglin, TIME (click here for his full list):

1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2. Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
3. Sticks and Bones
4. Machinal
5. Arrivals and Departures
6. The Cripple of Inishmaan
7. Rocky
8. The Open House
9. John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey
10. The Is Our Youth

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Mark Kennedy, Associated Press (click here for his full list)

1. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
3. The Elephant Man
4. A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
5. Aladdin
6. A Raisin in the Sun
7. Norm Lewis becoming the first black actor to take on the title role in Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera
8. On the Town
9. Bryan Cranston in All The Way
10. Cabaret

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Elysa Gardner, USA Today (click here for her full list)

Best play: The Realistic Joneses
Best musical: The Last Ship
Best revivals of a play: A Raisin in the Sun, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Elephant Man
Best revival of a musical: On the Town
Best revival of a performance in a musical: Alan Cumming in Cabaret
Best triple play: Tony Shalhoub in Act One
Person of the year: Neil Patrick Harris in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Breakout stars: Lena Hall in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Alessandro Nivola in The Elephant Man
Jukebox heroines: Audra McDonald in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, Jessie Mueller in Beautiful
Mr. Genie-ality: James Monroe Iglehart in Aladdin
Beautiful "girls": Cast of Casa Valentina

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Lyn Gardner, Guardian (click here for her full list)

1. The Father
2. Every Brilliant Thing
3. Pomona
4. A Number
5. Speak Bitterness
6. Idomeneus
7. Mr. Burns
8. The Wild Duck
9. A Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts
10. Wot? No Fish!!

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Michael Billington, Guardian (click here for his full list)

1. King Charles III
2. Ballyturk
3. The Valley of Astonishment
4. 2071
5. Gypsy
6. Skylight
7. The Crucible
8. Fathers and Sons
9. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
10. The James Plays

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Alfred Hickling, Guardian (click here for his full list)

1. Sea Breeze
2. Raw Material: Llareggub Revisited
3. Memories of August 1914
4. Beryl
5. Kes
6. Dead Dog in a Suitcase
7. Queen Coal
8. The Crucible
9. Krapp's Last Tape
10. Monday's Child

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Chris Jones, Chicago Tritube (click here for his full list)

1. The Humans
2. Hedda Gabler
3. Exit Strategy
4. Men Should Weep
5. Luna Gale
6. Native Son
7. Road Show
8. All Our Tragic
9. Our Class
10. This Is Our Youth

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Henry Hitchngs, Evening Standard (click here for his full list)

1. A View From the Bridge
2. The Crucible
3. Visitors
4. The Wild Duck
5. Sweeney Todd
6. King Charles III
7. The Key Will Keep The Lock
8. A Streetcar Named Desire
9. Wolf Hall
10. Assassins