2010: The Year in Review -- Shows I Saw

No wonder I have no time to see movies anymore!  Here is a list of the theater I saw in 2010, along with a few music events, poetry events and talks.  I don't think I missed any, but...

Los Angeles, CA (and thereabouts)

·      Carousel at Reprise

·      Readings of plays from Lee Wochner's "Words That Speak" Playwriting Workshop at [Inside] the Ford

·      Exiles at the Hayworth

·      Sidhe at the Road, directed by Darin Anthony

·      Reading of Stephanie Walker's new play American Home at the Blank

·      bobrauschenbergamerica at [Inside] the Ford, produced by TheSpyAnts

·      Reading by poet Mary Oliver at Royce Hall.

·      A Wrinkle in Time at South Coast Repertory Theater

·      Stage Door at Open Fist

·      Reading of Rick Setlowe's new play at the Blank

·      Reading of Apogee +26 at Palisades Theater

·      Reading of my play Magellanica (Part I) in the Dramatists Guild's "Friday Night Footlights"

·      Men of Tortuga at Furious

·      Reading of Jami Brandli's play "Technicolor Life" at the Blank

·      Lacsivious Something at [Inside] the Ford, produced by Circle X

·      The Wake at the Kirk Douglas

·      Loyalties at Pacific Resident Theater

·      Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights Party

·      Workshop production of Stranger Things at Bootleg, produced by Ghost Road

·      Getting Frankie Married... and Afterwards at Open Fist

·      Reading of my play Magellanica (Part I) at [Inside] the Ford, in Words That Speak workshop readings

·      The Twentieth Century Way at The Theater @ Boston Court

·      Workshop mates' readings at [Inside] the Ford, produced by Words That Speak

·      London's Scars at the Odyssey

·      South Pacific at the Ahmanson

Portland, OR and Ashland, OR

·      Reading of Gnit at the JAW Festival at Portland Center Stage

·      Hamlet at Oregon Shakespeare Festival

·      Readings of Ashland New Plays Festival winning plays: The Exceptionals, by Bob Clyman; Technicolor Life, by Jami Brandli; The Insidious Impact of Anton, by David Hilder; and The Gold Star in the Window by Harlene Goodrich

·      American Nights at Oregon Shakespeare Festival

New York and New Jersey

·      Oh, Deer at Princeton University

·      Band of Changes (music!) at BT Bistro

·      Aurelia's Oratorio at the McCarter

·      The Living Newspaper presents: Google Rising at Le Poisson Rouge

·      Lost Boy at Premiere Stages

·      Reading of The Mneumonist at Naked Angels, directed by Laura Savia

·      "The Wicked Women of Off-Broadway" talk -- Annie Baker, Lisa Kron, Theresa Rebeck and Sarah Ruhl

·      Paul Muldoon and Michael Wood (poet/critic) discussion at Labrinth Books

·      Love and Communication at Passage Theater in Trenton

·      Wings at Second Stage

·      That Hopey Changey Thing at the Public

·      An Iliad at the McCarter

·      EST event for playwrights

·      Anne Carson and S. Bynum (poet/fiction writer) at Princeton University

·      Edward Albee talk at NYPSI

·      La Bete on Broadway

·      Reading of Oedipus El Rey at the Lark

·      Princeton Symphony Orchestra (music)

·      Princeton University Triangle Show

·      Play Dead at the Players Theater

·      Middletown at the Vineyard

·      The Great Game at the Public

·      Reading of David Hilder's new play

·      Princeton University Orchestra's Shostakovich concert (music)

·      La Cage au Faux at the LongAcre

·      Next to Normal at the Booth Theater