Who's afraid of virginia woolf at portland playhouse.

It was incredible, as that play always is. The male lead outperformed the female lead, which i feel is less common than vice versa, but everyone was great.

It was an amateur production of Shakespeare's As You Like It that a friend and his son were both acting in. It could have been quite stodgy, but the actors made it good fun.

Last year I saw a 70s rock anthem retelling of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights Dream. I cannot for the life of me remember who put it on though.

Edit: Directed by Daryl Cloran, here be an article

Last one I saw was "Who's Holiday", a drag production featuring Cindy Lou Who from the Grinch Who Stole Christmas, all grown up and living in a trailer park.

https://bagnbaggage.org/event/whos-holiday/2023-12-01/

I'm in line for one right now, I'll let you know how it went when it's done.

Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat ! A regional high school did a fantastic job with it.

Saw Les Miserables last year. Third time seeing it and it's still fantastic.

this post made me realise i can't remember

time to go to the theatre darlings!

2026. I saw the turn of the screw at the opera.

What Haunting of Bly manor is technically based on

Pretty boring stuff. Wouldn’t recommend

Lion King on Tour was last one I saw. It was awesome.

Locally written and produced whodunnit dinner theatre. Before that, university produced Othello.

The last live theater I saw was Peter Pan Goes Wrong. Amazingly good. That Cornley theater knows how to put on a great show.

Aida on Freakin' Broadway in NYC. I'm not a theatre type but I was in the area for a few years, and the performance was everything I hoped to see in a real broadway play; but I was a little disappointed to learn people do not dress up - biz-casual at least - to see a show.

Marty's one man show.

2025, Saw the Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Saw

It's a comedy musical with a tiny cast Seeing it live was a hilariously fun night. I highly recommend it for anyone who enjoyed the first couple of Saw movies.

Without spoiling it too much, it expanded on the latent gay tension between the two main characters in the first movie and included several jokes for fans of the series.

My favorite musical is the Sweeny Todd casting with Angela Lansbury. The characters are all perfectly cast, and Angela Lansbury is a treat every time she's on stage.

I see I am amongst people of culture, so I won't bore you with too many ignoble details. It was last October and my wife and I were on our anniversary trip to the mountains of western North Carolina, and my wife dragged me to one of those musical dinner theaters in Pigeon Forge Tennessee. I'm not going to say which one, because the show was just so god-awful I'm afraid that naming them would seem impolite. It was a patriotic themed show, and the place was maybe a tenth of the way filled at most. I'm one of those people who easily suffer from second-hand embarrassment, and I was cringing so hard it was beginning to manifest into physical discomfort. It couldn't end fast enough, and when it was over my wife looked at me and actually apologized for inflicting that upon us. I must admit, I had a hard time masking my lack of enthusiasm when she first told me of her plans...

I saw Dear Evan Hansen in like 2019. The staging was kinda neat, and the vocal performances were spectacular.

The story was.... something.

hadestown. i can't imagine anyone other than morgan dudley playing eurydice now. her hair perfectly fit her backpacking clothing

It was either Blue Man Group in New York, or The Vagina Monologues in Chicago. Both were about 25 years ago so I don't remember which I saw last.

Went to see the Victoria Symphony a few months ago. They did a special to show off their new oboeist(?)

But prior to that its been years since I saw anything on the stage.

Hercules in London. Found out my mate paid like £200 per ticket because it was their debut. It was great but definitely not worth it.

The one before that was My Neighbor Totoro and I really enjoyed that. I never saw the anime and the live performance was so magical to me.

We recently saw a show called Wild Party. Had a couple of uncomfortable moments but was overall very good.

Saw a great, really fun production of As You Like It at Writers Theater near Chicago at Thanksgiving. They got several inches of snow that morning so the theater was half empty and the Uber there was terrifying! Really cool little theater.

Seeing Good Night, Oscar at a local theater Thursday night. It's small but usually has good shows. Last year they did one called Satchmo at the Waldorf where one actor played Louis Armstrong, his manager, and Miles Davis.

I do enjoy live musical theatre, but it is quite expensive, and smaller local productions for whatever reason I haven't been motivated enough to go to. I think the last musical theatre I saw was Mozart's The Magic Flute at the New York Met Opera House, in January 2025. The time before that was Hamilton at the Princess of Wales Theatre in June 2023.

So anyways due to cost, I'll settle for watching the latest musical movie at the cinema like Wicked for Good.

This weekend. Henry V at the RSC

The Importance of Being Earnest (by the National Theatre). Still available on YouTube if you want to see it.

I've seen/been in loads of stuff on stage but I don't really have a favourite.

This past Saturday I saw the musical Chess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_(musical)

I do a least three broadway shows a year.

Inside No. 9 at the Hammersmith Apollo. So glad I got to see it before they finished.

Eddie/Suzy Izzard conducting a solo performance of the entire play of Hamlet.

If you count high-school performances, I saw a cousin-in-law's performance of West Side story.

If you don't count that, it was a theater rendition of Evil Dead.

The people in the front 3 rows were provided ponchos and advised to wear washable clothes. I was in the back row and still got a bit of gore on me.

Coincidentally, I was taken as a plus-1 to a Broadway musical, "Ragtime", this month. I normally don't go out much for theater, but it was free so I went.

It wasn't bad. The style of music isn't my jam, but it had some fun parts.

Also interesting is the play's message seems to be "the only way you'll get something approaching justice is violence" and I'm not sure if that's the author's intent.

Come from Away in Toronto. Very uplifting.

I work in live theatre, so my perspective is a little skewed. The last one I went to see (instead of working) was The Drowsy Chaperone, a musical within a play.

The concept is that an old (slightly odd, but very welcoming) man is inviting the audience into his house, to listen to an old vinyl broadway recording in his living room. Sort of like a Mr. Rogers Neighborhood episode. As he (and the audience) listens to the record, his imagination blooms and his house transforms into the set for the musical. So the characters in the musical are dancing and singing around his house, while he sits in his armchair (or putters around his room, making tea, serving finger sandwiches, etc) and breaks the fourth wall to add commentary.

It’s a comedy wrapped around a tragedy. The musical is very bright and cheery, but the old man clearly has some eccentricities that begin to show through the cracks as the show progresses. It’s an interesting commentary on the “circus” part of bread and circus, as it explores things like escapism, agoraphobia, and OCD as the man’s happy facade slowly crumbles while the musical progresses (and gets interrupted a few times, which is extremely triggering for him). It becomes clear that he’s only able to maintain his happy public persona for a little while.

As for the last show I actually saw, it was a traditional Indian dance show. I work a lot of those, because traditional Indian dance has a sort of test for their dancers. It’s not a perfect comparison, but many people compare it to a black belt test in karate. Since every dancer has to go through it, there are a lot of them.

Not counting a recent shadow cast Rocky Horror Picture Show, last would be the university production of Antigone my buddy was in like 12 years ago.

My mom was a huge Broadway fan, so I've seen Chicago and Les Mis on Broadway, and Les Mis and Wicked a couple of times locally. My wife and I are going to NYC this fall and we're gonna do a Broadway show since she's never been to one. Haven't decided which one yet, leaning towards Book of Mormon but we'll have to see what's playing while we're there.

If you twst the definition a bit: 2022, I saw Dream Theater live

Oh, that's not what you meant? Color me shocked...

In that case, 2003, Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera

I've been doing volunteer usher work lately so last one I saw was Blithe Spirit done at the local community college.

It's been a minute. The last showing of Hedwig and the Angry Inch with Neil Patrick Harris as the lead.