Last year I saw 41 shows. This year I saw 53, another increase from the previous year and a pretty big one! 46 of those were in person and 7 were streaming or on Zoom (2 more than last year). 9 shows were on Broadway.
These include my own shows/readings: I performed/read in the 2 Thornton Wilder Society readings and in 2 singing salons. One was a concert of my songs, and one was a reading of my musical.
Opera/Concerts: I only saw 1 opera this year after watching 2 last year, and I saw two chorus concerts featuring friends. I saw one music concert.
Travel: I saw 1 show in DC, 1 show in LA, 5 shows in London, and 1 concert in Philadelphia.
I have highlighted my favorites. And after the favorites is the HUGE list of everything I saw. Then, I have listed some panels, exhibits, and events I also attended this year.
Top 10 Favorites (in no order, I swear):
Dead as a Dodo (Wakka Wakka/Baruch)
Liberation (Roundabout Theatre Company/Laurel Pels)
Elephant (Menier Chocolate Factory)
Here We Are (National Theatre)
River Roads Music Festival featuring The Indigo Girls and Dar Williams (Heuser Park)
John Proctor is the Villain
The Seat of Our Pants (The Public)
Oh, Mary!
Marjorie Prime
Keen’s Mix Tape #1 (Keen Company at Irondale Arts Center)
Runners Up (Also in no order):
Real Women Have Curves
Old Friends (MTC)
Salty Brine: Good News, or Harry the Dog (Joe’s Pub)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Signature Theater)
Many Happy Returns (MMBandCo at Playwrights Horizons)
Eat the Document (Prototype Festival)
Gypsy
Still Coviding Singing Salon 1 (Ripley Grier)
Dead as a Dodo (Wakka Wakka/Baruch)
Urinetown (Encores)
New Writers at 54! Anna K. Jacobs (54Below/Livestream)
Salty Brine: Good News, or Harry the Dog (Pangea)
Liberation (Roundabout Theatre Company/Laurel Pels)
Song of the North (New Victory Theater)
The Jonathan Larson Project (Orpheum Theater)
Operation Mincemeat
Smile (J2P Productions)
Seth Christenfeld Show (54Below/Livestream)
Everybody Says Not to Be This Way (Duplex)
Hold Me in the Water (Playwrights Horizons)
Wonderful Town (Encores)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Signature Theater)
Floyd Collins (Lincoln Center Theatre)
44: The Obama Musical (Kirk Douglas Theater)
Real Women Have Curves
FROYEN! Women in Yiddish Song (Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus Concert at Merkin Hall/Kaufman Music Center)
Old Friends (MTC)
King of Pangea (King’s Head Theatre)
Elephant (Menier Chocolate Factory)
Here We Are (National Theatre)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Giant
River Roads Music Festival featuring The Indigo Girls and Dar Williams (Heuser Park)
Our Town Zoom Reading (Thornton Wilder Society)
504: The Musical (Joe’s Pub)
Still Coviding Singing Salon 2 (Ripley Grier)
John Proctor is the Villain
Twelfth Night (Shakeasepare in the Park/Public Theater)
Death Becomes Her
A Story No One Knows Reading (NoFlex)
Salty Brine: Good News, or Harry the Dog (Joe’s Pub)
The Seat of Our Pants (The Public Theater)
Bat Boy (City Center)
Verse Intro Cabaret (Soho Playhouse)
The Long Christmas Dinner (Symphony Space)
The Seat of Our Pants (The Public Theater)
Samantha Coleman Memorial Concert (Green Room 42/livestream)
Slam Frank (Asylum NYC)
Oh, Mary!
Create Theater: New Works Cabaret (Laurie Beechman Theatre/livestream)
Marjorie Prime
Keen’s Mix Tape #1 (Keen Company at Irondale Arts Center)
Beloved King: A Queer Bible Musical (Laurie Beechman Theatre/Livestream)Sing Christmas (Essential Voices USA Concert at St. Malachy’s/The Actor’s Chapel)
The Long Christmas Dinner Zoom Reading (Thornton Wilder Society)44: The Obama Musical (Daryl Roth Theater)
The Buena Vista Social Club
Miscellaneous Panels, Exhibits, and Events:
The Alamo
The Buckhorn Museum
Drama Bookshop Event for Our Laundry, Our Town
Moonlighting 40th Anniversary Zoom Party
Moonlighting 40th Anniversary Live Party
Kelly Writers House Salon in NYC
Moonlighting Book Club: A Little Night Music and Persuasion
Run as One 4M Race
25th High School Reunion
StageStruck! Musical Theater Conference
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian, DC
JP Morgan Corporate Challenge Race
THE WALK! 24
The Victor Hugo House, Paris
Palais Garnier
The Louvre
The Eiffel Tower
Musee d’Orsay
Do Ho Suh Exihibit at The Tate Modern
Design and Disability Exhibit at The Victoria and Albert Museum
Summer Streets
Jardin Botanique de Montreal
AFTD Food for Thought Moonlighting Cooking Class
Abbott Dash to the Finish 5K Race
The Public Forum: Notes
The Studio Museum