The first week of January has a quartet of shows that can give a GPS a spin - and you may need just such a device to find your way to the right door.

"Road Show" had to creatively travel nearly 15 years before composer Stephen Sondheim and librettist John Weidman could finally declare to themselves that their work was finished.

The time has arrived to select 10 theatrical productions to be declared the best of 2013. The list might well have made it to a dozen except for an unplanned hiatus that involved crutches, tubes, and a daily serving of stewed prunes.