Top ten in theater, 2012 edition

The top 10 productions, trends and events in the full and hectic life of Washington theater in 2012: Woolly Mammoth Theatre. The year’s most ingenious theater piece. Playwright Anne Washburn (“The Internationalists”), in concert with director Steven Cosson, turned “The Simpsons” into the stuff of post-apocalyptic mythology. In the years after a nuclear cataclysm, survivors of an America in ashes recounted from memory the “Cape Fear” episode of the TV ca...