- Theater visits: 78 (oh dear, that's way down from last year; I need to eat my Wheaties or something)
- Shows written by women: 35 (not complete parity, I can do better)
- Shows written by writers of color: 37 (ditto)
- Shows/concerts/events by my darling Fellows: 16 (this is also down, I need to try harder. or find a sugar daddy.)
- Ballet visits: 10
- New e-books: 21 (six are still in my reading queue)
- New book books: 7 (mostly courtesy of amazing bookstores in work trip locations)
- Readings/workshops: 6 (yikes, this is WAY down)
- Concerts/cabarets: 7
- Tennis events: 0 (oh dear, that's sad; please don't tell my darling Roger Federer)
- Award presentations: 3
- Conferences: 2
- Panel discussions: 7
- Continuing education classes: 4
- New museums: 2
- New castles: 1 (thanks, Edinburgh!)
- New cathedrals: 1 (thanks, Edinburgh!)
- New restaurants: 11 (thank you, work trips!)
- Movies: 4 (that's skimpy, even for me)
- Protest marches: 0 (bad feet; I have much guilt)
- New charities: 17 (hey, at least something went up!)
- Tweets: 359
- Trips for work: 4 (woo hoo!)
Here are my 2019 Favorite Theater experiences. These are in no particular order, with a few of my especial favorites in photos (which are also in no particular order) after...
- Secret Identity
- Surely Goodness and Mercy
- Wolf Play
- Passage
- Burn This
- Promenade
- A Strange Loop
- Toni Stone
- Bar Dykes
- the way she spoke
- Power Strip
- Soft Power
- Fun Home (in Evanston)
- The Half Life of Marie Curie
- Fefu and Her Friends
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| photo credit: Joan Marcus |
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| photo credit: Craig Schwartz |
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| photo credit: Henry Grossman |
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| photo credit: Julieta Cervantes |
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| photo credit: David Kinder |
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| photo credit: Jeremy Daniel |
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| photo credit: Joan Marcus |
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| photo credit: Joan Marcus |
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| photo credit: Sara Krulwich |
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| photo credit: mikiodo |
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| photo credit: mikiodo |
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| photo credit: Sara Krulwich |
**Special mentions to my return visit to What the Constitution Means to Me, which was just as devastating and wonderful the second time around; 'Bugs Bunny in Concert', because, hello, Bugs Bunny; Street Theater, which I saw twice in production again this year and I loved loved loved it each time, which you already knew; I also saw Dael Orlandersmith's Until the Flood twice in productions outside NY, it was just as amazing every time; the Actors Fund performance of The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, and Charles' 54 Below concert Native New Yorker, because I'm such a Charles Busch fan, and it felt SO GOOD to laugh; Crisis Actor, a fascinating, hard-to-describe play I saw at the Laurie Beechman Theatre; The Rest I Make Up, the documentary about Maria Irene Fornes; and Shaina Taub's and the Lazour brothers' cabarets at Joe's Pub. Delightful evenings, all.**
- entire meal, but especially the Gulab Nut, at Bombay Bread Bar
- cassoulet at Bobo
- crab beignets at Burke and Wills
- lobster agnolotti at a Cena (Portland, OR)
- creamed farro at Clyde Common (Portland, OR)
- pork tonkatsu at Danya food truck (Portland, OR)
- brown sugar sour cream ice cream with rhubarb jam at Ruby Jewel (Portland, OR)
- lobster roll at Off the Hook
- watermelon feta salad at Pangea
- Eton mess at Sheep Heid Inn (Edinburgh, Scotland)
- jajic at Pomegranate (Edinburgh)
- pulled pork sandwich at Oink (Edinburgh)
- the dalliance cocktail at The Stinger
- tamarind margarita at Bombay Bread Bar
- rosada sangria at Boqueria
- ten percent weird cocktail at Burke and Wills
- long goodbye cocktail at Clyde Common (Portland)
- margarita noble at Ty Bar (Four Seasons Hotel)
- champagne punch at Bar Boulud
- spanish conquest at Blue Dog Cafe
- dark forest at Off the Hook
- peach bellini at Cipriani Wall Street
- Edinburgh mist at Saint Giles Cafe and Bar (Edinburgh)
- cactus pear margarita at etc.etc.
- floodfall cocktail at Juniper
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