I’ve started a bit of a theater addiction. It began in March of 2024. The anniversary of my mother’s death. I normally travel for it, but could not last year as I had some health issues I needed to be in NYC for. (I am fine.)
I decided to do a thing I had done with her for her birthday one year, as a surprise. She had always talked about wanting to go into “the city” and see a Broadway play and stay overnight in a hotel. So I took her. And this year, decided to take her again.
I booked a hotel and a full weekend of stuff she would have loved. I went to a few shows and suddenly found myself loving this and I just kept going. Now I can’t stop.
I’ve started doing show reviews. As always with me, I start something and never finish it. Mostly because I hate myself. As I create this page, I have already wanted to stop putting “show review” in the post titles because they are more like diary entries. I don’t think I am good at reviewing shows. I am scared of spoiling them. I also hate saying I did not like a show. I feel like posting that makes me an asshole. Imagine writing a play and getting it produced and some loser who can’t even properly blog comes and says she didn’t like it? Who the hell am I to say ANYTHING about someone who did SOMETHING so huge with their life.
But I am going to try to keep this up. Here’s some shows I have written about. Click on the name to read the post about it. Note that I am saying “post” and not “review” because I feel these are more diary than seasoned theater critic. They are in chronological order oldest to newest. I will probably change this as time goes on.
Mr. Puppy
Joy
Lowcountry
Beau the Musical
