The season on and off Broadway / essay by Jeffrey Eric Jenkins -- The best plays of 2005-2006 : essays. Grey gardens / by Doug Wright, Scott Frankel and Michael Korie ; essay by Michael Feingold -- The history boys / by Alan Bennett ; essay by Charles McNulty -- In the continuum / by Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter ; essay by Anne Marie Welsh -- The intelligent design of Jenny Chow / by Rolin Jones ; essay by Charles Wright -- The lieutenant of Inishmore / by Martin McDonagh ; essay by John Istel -- Rabbit hole / by David Lindsay-Abaire ; essay by Michael Sommers -- Red light winter / by Adam Rapp ; essay by Chris Jones -- Shining city / by Conor McPherson ; essay by David Cote -- Stuff happens / by David Hare ; essay by Misha Berson -- Third / by Wendy Wasserstein ; essay by Anne Cattaneo -- Plays produced in New York -- The season off off Broadway -- The season around the United States -- Facts and figures.