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September 2015 in review

Books read (3):

  • Building Stories by Chris Ware
  • Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
  • Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel

Live performances (9):

  • On the Town at the Lyric Theatre (9/1/15)
  • Matilda at the Shubert Theatre (9/15/15)
  • The King and I at the Vivian Beaumont (9/16/15)
  • Renée Fleming & the Emerson String Quartet at Sub-Culture (9/16/15)
  • The Gil Evans Project plays Miles Ahead and Porgy & Bess at the Jazz Standard (9/17/15)
  • BRILLIANT: The Songs of the Brill Building Composers at the Duplex (9/18/15)
  • Spring Awakening at the Brooks Atkinson (9/24/15)

Other miscellany:

August 2015 in review

Books read (8):

  • Amazing Grace (33 1/3) by Aaron Cohen
  • Urgent, Unheard Stories by Roxane Gay
  • Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
  • We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach
  • American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
  • The Bible Tells Me So by Peter Enns
  • March, Book 1 by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
  • March, Book 2 by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell

Live performances (9):

  • Cold Mountain at the Santa Fe Opera (8/5/15)
  • Santa Fe Desert Chorale at Cathedral Basilica, Santa Fe (8/6/15)
  • Significant Other at Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center (8/14/15)
  • Threesome at 59E59 (8/21/15)
  • Mamma Mia! at the Broadhurst Theatre (8/22/15)
  • John at the Signature Theatre (8/23/15)
  • Hamilton at the Richard Rodgers Theatre (8/24/15)
  • Jonathan Cuevas Cello Duet Recital (8/25/15)
  • Allison Burns and Lulu Picart cabaret at the Metropolitan Room (8/31/15)

Movies seen (1):

  • The Wrecking Crew (8/16/15)

July 2015 in review

Books read (5):

  • The Museum of Literary Souls by John Connolly
  • The Wild Party by Joseph Moncure March (art by Art Spiegelman)
  • Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby

Live performances (4):

  • Little Shop of Horrors at New York City Center (7/2/15)
  • The Wild Party at New York City Center (7/17/15)
  • It Shoulda Been You at the Brooks Atkinson (7/19/15)
  • George Abud at 54 Below (7/24/15)

Movies seen (1):

  • Cold Mountain (7/25/15)

June 2015 in review

Books read (6):

  • The Girl on a Train by Paula Hawkins
  • Denton Little's Deathdate by Lance Rubin
  • Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. Sountrack (33 1/3 series) by Andrew Schartmann
  • I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves by Ryan O'Connell
  • Empire State: A Love Story (or Not) by Jason Shiga
  • Intimacy Idiot by Isaac Oliver

Live performances (12):

  • It's Only a Play at the Jacobs Theatre (6/2/15)
  • Maria Schneider Orchestra at Birdland (6/4/15)
  • Preludes at Claire Tow Theatre (6/5/15)
  • Fun Home at Circle In the Square (6/9/15) (Post-Tonys performance!)
  • Fun Home at Circle In the Square (6/10/15)
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Barrymore Theatre (6/11/15)
  • On the Twentieth Century at the American Airlines Theatre (6/12/15)
  • The King & I at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre (6/13/15)
  • An American in Paris at the Palace Theatre (6/14/15)
  • Tori Kelly at the Best Buy Theatre (6/23/15)
  • Shows For Days at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre (6/27/15)
  • Hand to God at the Booth Theatre (6/28/15)

Other miscellany:

  • Music directed The Melody Lingers On at 54 Below (6/20/15)
  • Attending special announcement from Jazz at Lincoln Center for Blue Engine Records at Jazz at Lincoln Center (6/30/15)

May 2015 in review

  • Living on Love at the Longacre Theatre (5/2/15)
  • Doctor Zhivago at the Broadway Theatre (5/9/15)
  • Zorba! at City Center Encores! (5/10/15)
  • Darcy James Argue's Secret Society at The Bell House (5/10/15)
  • Fred Hersch & Brad Mehldau at The Jazz Standard (5/19/15)
  • The Lion King at the Minskoff Theatre (5/22/15)
  • John Rutter and the New England Symphonic Ensemble at Carnegie Hall (5/25/15)
  • Songs From An Unmade Bed at SubCulture (5/26/15)
  • The Drama Desk Awards at Town Hall (5/31/15)

Movies (3):

  • Atari: Game Over (5/23)
  • Stripped (5/24)
  • Grand Piano (5/29)

Other miscellany:

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