Here's what I read this year. The first list is books (a variety of non-fiction and fiction) and then plays I've read. Finally, I've added a list of theatre performances I saw this year (which is rather slim).
Books
1. Thinking Shakespeare by Barry Edelstein
2. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
3. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
5. Wild at Heart by John Eldridge
6. The Graveyard book by Neil Gaiman
7. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
8. Kiss Me Like a Stranger by Gene Wilder
9. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
10. Renee Fleming’s Vocal Autobiography
11. Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler
12. Close Calls with Nonsense by Stephen Burt
13. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
14. Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
15. The World According to Garp by John Irving
16. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
17. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
18. Sanford Meisner On Acting by Sanford Meisner and Dennis Longwell
19. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
20. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
21. Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller
22. Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
23. A Thousand Miles in a Million Years by Donald Miller
24. Coaching the Artist Within by Eric Maisel
25. Straight Man by Richard Russo
26. The Shack by William P Young
27. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
28. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
29. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Plays
1. Mrs Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw
2. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
3. The Road to Damascus (part 1) by August Strindberg
4. Miss Julie by August Strindberg
5. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand
6. Picnic by William Inge
7. Buried Child by Sam Shepard
8. Waiting for Godot by Beckett
9. Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
10. Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco
11. The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter
12. The Importance of Being Earnest by Wilde
13. Long Day’s Journey Into Night by O’Neill
14. Angels in America by Tony Kushner
15. Fences by August Wilson
16. The Rainmaker by N. Richard Nash
17. Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin
18. John Gabriel Borkman by Ibsen
19. Death and the Plowman by Johannes von Saaz
20. Three Days of Rain Richard Greenberg
21. Enchanted April by Matthew Barber
22. Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
23. Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon
24. Late: a cowboy song by Sarah Ruhl
25. To Fool the Eye by Jeffrey Hatcher
Plays I’ve Attended
1. Happy Days
2. Eleutheria
3. Bernstein’s Mass (not a play, but it’s a very theatrical piece)
4. A Delicate Balance
5. Endgame
6. Private Eyes
7. Buried Child
8. Grey Gardens
9. The Odd Couple
10. The Tempest
11. A Midnight Dreary
What's been most disappointing is the number of plays I've attended. But it was my final semester of college and then the acting apprenticeship that hampered any chances of catching attending theatre. I hope to catch more stuff in Minneapolis and St. Paul this year, but that can prove challenging.
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