Those of us who live in Central New York are blessed with so many lovely opportunities to experience live theater. Between student productions and local organizations, there is an amazing amount of talent in this area; add the touring companies (plus local collaborations with theaters in other parts of the country), and we wind up with ready access to brilliant and rewarding productions. Within the past month alone, it was my great pleasure to witness an accomplished high school production of Les Misérables, and professional presentations of Joe Turner's Come And Gone, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Da' courtesy of the respective reliable resources of Syracuse Stage, The Covey Theater Company, and Redhouse Arts Center. You can't go wrong seeing any play put on by these three companies. I'll be returning to both Covey and Redhouse in the very near future, I already have my season tickets for Syracuse Stage's 2026-2027 season, and I'm also looking forward to early May productions from Great Northern Artists Collaborative and Baldwinsville Theatre Guild.
So following another--yes, ANOTHER!--wonderfully busy run of recent plays, it's time again to update my attempt to list every theatrical production I've ever seen.
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As I wrote in a separate post in 2020: "After finally experiencing my first-ever play on Broadway in 2019, I hoped to make that an annual event. The pandemic deferred that plan, but Broadway will return, and I will return to it." I look forward to adding more plays to this list...someday."
From previous updates:
"As a companion to my ongoing Virtual Ticket Stub Gallery of pop performers I've seen in live concerts, and a follow-up to my love letter to theater, this list will attempt to make note of every live play I've ever seen. The limits of memory place an even greater restriction on this than on my concert-goin' resumé recreation, but I'll continue to update this list as both sudden recollection and (I hope) new live theater experiences dictate.
"This list does not differentiate between musicals and dramatic plays, nor does it care if the setting was Broadway, off-Broadway, the Apollo Victoria Theatre in London, Syracuse Stage, community theater, college campuses, high schools, middle schools, elementary schools, or Shakespeare in the park. As always: the play's the thing."
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