Twelfth Night
In a New York fall theater season bulging with the Bard, this Elizabethan-style all-male staging from Shakespeare’s Globe stands as the undisputed high point. The incomparable Mark Rylance (right) leads the company as Olivia, the terribly earnest noblewoman rendered giddy by love, ably flanked by a peerless ensemble that includes Samuel Barnett (left) and the marvelous Stephen Fry. Paired in repertory with a wickedly entertaining Richard III, this was the year’s most delicious Broadway banquet.