Did you ever wonder what a year of theater going looks like for someone who self-describes as "an inveterate and always-hopeful theater buff?"
Here, in chronological order, is a list of the 108 shows I saw in 2019, on and off Broadway.
The ones marked with an asterisk are those that I reviewed, either for this blog or elsewhere.
The ones in red are those that I enjoyed most for whatever quirky reasons that keep me going back show after show after show. I'll leave it to you to discern a pattern.
Choir Boy*
True West*
Eddie and Dave
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Other Josh Cohen
Call Me Madam*
God Shows Up*
Sea Wall/A Life*
Fidler Afn Dakh (Fiddler On The Roof, Yiddish)*
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Merrily We Roll Along*
Daddy
Shadow of a Gunman
Be More Chill*
Kiss Me Kate*
Nantucket Sleigh Ride*
Boesman and Lena
Ain’t Too Proud*
White Noise*
Cake
I Married an Angel
Smart Blonde*
Ain’t No ‘Mo*
The Mother
What the Constitution Means to Me*
King Lear*
Fleabag
Oklahoma*
Burn This*
The Ferryman*
Hadestown*
Hillary and Clinton*
All My Sons*
Beetlejuice*
Tootsie*
The Poor of New York*
Do You Feel Anger
Lady in the Dark*
INK
Caroline’s Kitchen*
Gary
Accidentally Brave
High Button Shoes*
Happy Talk*
The Plough and the Stars
Mary Mary
Feral*
Curse of the Starving Class
Juno and the Paycock
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune*
Octet
Handbagged*
Square Go*
Julie Madly Deeply*
Long Lost
We’re Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time*
In the Green*
The Secret Life of Bees
Working*
Promenade*
The Rolling Stone*
Mojada*
Moulin Rouge*
Road Show*
Coriolanus*
Life Sucks
Little Gem
Make Believe
Bat Out of Hell*
Make Believe
Hercules*
Dust*
Betrayal*
Only Yesterday*
Derren Brown: Secret*
Fern Hill*
Eureka Day
The Height of the Storm*
The Great Society*
Freestyle Love Supreme*
Slave Play*
Linda Vista*
Sunday
The Rose Tattoo*
Soft Power*
The Lightning Thief*
The Sound Inside*
David Byrne’s American Utopia*
Dublin Carol
Little Shop of Horrors
Molly Sweeney
One Discordant Violin*
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical*
Bella Bella
The Michaels
A Christmas Carol*
Einstein’s Dreams*
A Bright Room Called Day*
Jagged Little Pill*
MsTRIAL*
Fires in the Mirror
Greater Clements*
The Wild Parrots of Campbell*
Harry Townsend’s Last Stand
Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven
one in two
Sing Street
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