Welcome to the recap of shows I saw in 2025!   There were 192.  Last. year when I did this post for 2024 (which you can find HERE) I vowed to keep track of what I spent this year.  Since I do book a lot of shows through papering services, I thought it would be so cool to add it up and see how little it cost.  I have a membership to Club Free Time, which has a fee of $4.50, Stagelight which has a fee of $5 and TDF – Off Off Broadway membership (the only tier I qualify for) which is $11-15 each show.

So surely once I added everything up, it would be SUCH a low number that all the people in all the lands would do an audible AHHHHHHHHHH upon reading, right?

Holy shit, wrong.

I cannot list out the price per show because the number one rule of papering services is that you can never talk about the shows you got tickets for though a papering service.  But I can tell you the that entire year’s total is…..drumroll please…. $8075 wait WHAT?  How did that happen?!

Here is how it happened:

Oh, Mary.  This one show alone cost me $1474 for all the special tickets I bought. I do play Mary Roulette where I randomly purchase tickets without any Mary announced and then when Mary is announced, I have a cheaper ticket.  But there were some special occasions here.   One was Tituss Burgess cancelling the night I had tickets to see him.  I overpaid to keep my “I have seen every Mary” membership current.  Then of course he came back and I had a ticket for $54 from playing Roulette. Oh well.

My birthday – I had plans to see Boop! on my actual birthday, but it was cancelled so an orchestra ticket to Oh, Mary it is!

I also had a ticket to see Cole Escola’s last show but that got moved up to when I was going to be on a cruise.  So I had to buy another ticket to see them before they exited the role.

All of this adds up.

Then there is my birthday week where I went to Broadway shows every day for 10 days, multiple shows on multiple days.  That added up to $1554.

Still though, even with these two insane splurges, it still comes out to an average of $42 per show, which is not too bad.

I find it interesting I both started and ended the show year at DR2.

I did miss a lot of shows, especially around the second quarter when I had some health issues again (I am fine) and kept the Theatr app in business.

I also completely crapped out in the end and sold my tickets for the last three shows of the year:  Waiting for Godot (sorry Keanu!), the Rockettes and 44.  I wanted to see all three of these shows but one of my employees is unexpectedly out of the office long term.  While going to the theater is the release I need to unwind after a day of doing the job of two people, there are simply not enough hours in the day when year end is upon us.

In 2026, I would like to start seeing some shows outside NYC, starting with Oh, Mary in London.  I am booked for this and Paddington already.  Although I do confess that part of me wants to be responsible and not do things like fly to London to see a show about a bear.  Could we not start with maybe shows out of state before we jump straight to continents?

ANYWAY.

Maybe I should do a quick recap.  The best shows I saw other than Oh, Mary were:

Beau – This show is so great.  Whoever designed the set for St. Luke’s deserves an award.  It is so perfect.  This ended this past weekend and I really hope it returns again.

Pen Pals – Makes me cry every time I see it.

Conversations With Mother – I guess I like crying?

Sur – A show about women sneaking off to hike in Antarctica? Fuck yes.

Purpose – This was SO FUCKING GOOD.  I even did a splurge to see it a second time (coupled with Oh, Mary) on my birthday.

I feel like someone who saw 192 shows would have more to say about them but at this point, I am really just using this post as a bookmark for myself to have this all in one place.  I thought I would be spending the cruise I just returned from, doing some writing to expound on all my thoughts of the thee-ay-tor, but I spent most of it trying to not vomit.

You will see I started adding in times at some point in the year. It makes it easier when booking multiple shows per day to have that already filled in.

1/2	A Guide for the Homesick	DR2 Theatre
1/3	Prior 55	Theater for the New City
1/4	Drag	New World Stages
1/5	Jessycka Rose	Theater for the New City
1/6	Pen Pals	Theatre at St Clement’s
1/8	Black and White City Blues	American Theatre of Actors: Sargent Stage
1/9	Tipi Tales from the Stoop	Perelman Performing Arts Center
1/12	Cult of Love	Hayes Theater
1/12	Oh, Mary	Lyceum
1/12	The Spaghetti Variable	The Tank NYC
1/12	Rich Beyond our Wildest Dreams	The Tank NYC
1/15	Eureka Day	Samuel J Friedman Theater
1/17	Giggling Granny	Theater for the New City
1/18	A Knock on the Roof – 2:00	New York Theater Workshop
1/18	My Mother’s Funeral 5:00	Soho Playhouse
1/19	The Peak – 3:00	Theater for the New City
1/22	Fame Hungry	Soho Playhouse
1/23	Building My Casa: Drama, A New York City Story	La MaMa
1/25	Bill Posley’s The Day I Accidentally Went to War	Soho Playhouse
1/25	My Mother’s Funeral	Soho Playhouse
1/25	Gwyneth Goes Skiing	Soho Playhouse
1/29	All In	Hudson Theatre
1/31	Antiquities	Playwrights Horizon
2/1	Whisper of the Waves – 2:00	Soho Playhouse
2/2	Agency for the Lost 3:00	Tank Ltd
2/3	Blind Injustice 7:30	Jazz at Lincoln Center
2/4	Mrs. Loman	Theatre Row
2/7	Penpals	Theater St. Clements
2/8	Curse of the Starving Class – 2:00	The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
2/9	No Reservation – 4:00	La MaMa
2/13	The Shine Challenge	Theater for the New City
2/15	A Spy’s Awakening – 4:00	Comedy Village
2/16	When Gold Turns Black – 3:00	Theater for the New City
2/17	Drag	New World Stages
2/18	Kowalski	Duke on 42nd
2/19	Still	Sheen Center
2/20	Anonymous – 7:30	Tiny Baby Blackbox Theater
2/22	Conversations With Mother – 2:00 – 3:30	Theater 555
2/22	Grangeville – 7:00	Signature Theatre / The Alice Griffin Jewel Box
2/23	Liberation	Laura Pels Theater
2/23	The Audit and The American Dream (Double Bill)	Urban Stages Theater
2/25	On the Evolutionary Function of Shame	Irene Diamond Stages
2/27	Arthur Miller’s the Price	Theater at St Clements
2/28	After Endgame – 7:00	Soho Playhouse
3/1	Night Sings Its Songs – 2:00	Theater row
3/1	Juliet’s Revenge – 4:00	Soho Playhouse
3/2	Dakar 2-3:30	City Center Stage
3/2	Wounded – 6:00	Soho Playhouse
3/5	Oh, Mary	Lyceum
3/26	Oh, Mary	Lyceum
3/27	Love Life	City Center Stage
3/29	Drag	New World Stages
3/29	A Lesson in Blood – 8:00	American Theater of Actors
3/30	Jonathan Larson – 1:00	orpheum
3/30	All Nighter – 6:00	Newman Mills Theater
4/1	All the Beauty in the World	DR2 Theatre
4/3	Oh, Mary	Lyceum
4/4	In the Unlikely Event of an Actual Emergency – 6:00	Chain Theater
4/5	John Proctor – 1:00	Booth Theater
4/5	Sur – 7:00	La Mama
4/5	Mindplay – 9:00	Greenwich House theater
4/7	Conversations With Mother	Theater 555
4/7	The Retreating World by Naomi Wallace – 9:20	chain theater
4/8	Casualty of War – 7:00	Theater Row
4/9	Who’s Serving Who – 7:00	Theater Row
4/9	Paula – 9:15	Chain Theater
4/10	The Cruelty-Free Confessions of Hannah Blake – 6:30	Under St Marks
4/10	Café Resistance – 8:00	Theater for the New City
4/11	Pirates of Penzance – 8:00	Todd Haimes Theater
4/12	My First Ex Husband – 2:00	MMAC Theater
4/12	Is this Normal – 5:30	chain theater
4/12	Appropriate Behavior – 7:00	American Theater of Actors
4/19	Hold me in the Water 2:30	Playwrights Horizon
4/19	In Two Minds – 7:15	59 east 59
4/20	Conversations With Mother	Theater 555
4/27	That’s Not All She Wrote	Theater for the New City
4/27	Grief Camp	Linda Gross Theater
4/29	Mystic Conversations	Theater row
4/30	I Don’t Trust Adults	Soho Playhouse
5/3	Anatomy of a Suicide 3:30-5:30	Theater Row
5/6	Purpose	Helen Hayes Theater
5/7	All the World’s a Stage	theater row
5/8	Last Five Years	Hudson Theater
5/9	Living The Play	American Theater of Actors
5/11	The Generator Sessions	Theater for the New City
5/13	Smash	Imperial Theater
5/14	Titanique	Daryl Roth Theater
5/15	Four Evangelists Walk into a Fog	Theater for the New City
5/16	Caregiver	Soho Playhouse
5/17	Redwood	Nederlander Theater
5/28	Cracked Open	Theater Row
5/31	12-00 – 12:45 – Little Red Riding Hood	Florence Gould Theater
5/31	Five Models in Ruins – 2:00	Lincoln Center
5/31	The Glitch – 8:00	Gural Theater
6/3	Oh, Mary – 5:00	Lyceum
6/3	Soulmate	Actor’s Temple Theater
6/4	Point Loma – 7:00	chain theater
6/6	The Guest at Central Park West – 1:00	Gural Theater
6/6	The Glitch – 4:00	Gural Theater
6/7	Lunar Eclipse – 2:00	Pershing
6/9	Glengarry Glen Ross – 7:00	Palace Theater
6/10	Bear Grease	St Lukes
6/11	Boop	Broadhurst Theater
6/24	Dead Outlaw	Longacre Theater
6/25	Dorian Gray	Music Box Theater
6/26	Angel in the Heat	American Theater of Actors
7/4	A House Full of Flies	Theater for the New City
7/5	2:00 – Bear Grease	St Lukes
7/5	Dilaria	DR2 Theatre
7/5	Persephone Palmer Steps Out	Theater for the New City
7/9	Wesley	The Theater Center
7/10	Thank You, Don Ameche	American Theater of Actors
7/12	Boop	Broadhurst Theater
7/12	Machinal 7:30	NYCC
7/13	Mr Puppy	AMT Theater
7/13	Lowcountry	Linda Gross Theater
7/13	Pete & Me	Soho Playhouse
7/14	Joy	Laura Pels Theater
7/17	Beau	Theater 154
7/19	1:00 – Mommy	Classic Stage Company
7/19	5:00 – 6:15 Josh Sharp: ta da	Greenwich House theater
7/20	The Word of the Day	Classic Stage Company
7/20	7:30 – The Last Piece	Classic Stage Company
7/22	Duke and Roya	Lucille Lortel
7/23	Gene and Gilda	59 e 59
7/27	Trophy Boys	Susan and Ronald Frankel Theater
8/1	Six	Lena Horne Theater
8/1	Friends Musical Parody	The Theater Center
8/2	Angry Alan	Studio Seaview
8/2	Oh, Mary – 5:00	Lyceum
8/2	Death Becomes Her	Lunt Fontanne
8/3	5:00 – Moulin Rouge	Al Hirschfield Theater
8/4	Mamma Mia	Winter Garden theater
8/6	Stranger Things	Marquis theater
8/6	Gypsy	Majestic Theater
8/7	Oh, Mary	Lyceum
8/7	Purpose	Hayes Theater
8/8	Operation Mincemeat	Golden Theater
8/9	Wicked	Gershwin Theater
8/9	Rakugo	New World Stages
8/10	Maybe Happy Ending	Belasco
8/14	Call me Izzy	Studio 54
8/17	2:00 – Sea Glass	WP Theater
9/5	6:30 – The Boys from Kingsbridge	Theater for the New City
9/6	2:00 – Gin and Milk	Theater for the New City
9/17	Family	La Mama
9/18	Pen Pals	DR2
9/18	7:30 – Weather Girl	St Anns Warehouse
9/19	This is Government	59 e 59
9/20	2:00 – Caroline	MCC
9/20	5:00 – Life Chronicles	Eclipso
9/20	7:00- And Then There Were No More	La Mama
9/20	9:30 – Do I know you	Joe’s Pub
9/21	1:00 – The Brothers Size	The Shed
9/21	5:00 – Chanel Ali: Relative Stranger	Soho Playhouse
9/21	7:30 – The Other Americans	Public Theater
9/30	Least Problematic Woman in the World	Lortell
10/3	6:00 – Ginger Twinsies	Orpheum
10/4	2:00 – Mexodus	Minetta Lane Theater
10/4	Oh, Mary	Lyceum
10/4	8:00 – Punch	Samuel J Friedman Theater
10/5	3:00 – Traitors	American Theater of Actors
10/12	2:00 – Little Bear Ridge Road	Booth Theater
10/16	5:00 – Pen Pals	DR2
10/16	7:00 – Waiting for Godot	Hudson Theater
10/17	7:00 – (Un)Conditional	Soho Playhouse
10/17	9:30 – Oh, Bianca	Joe’s Pub
10/18	11:00 – Pirate Song by Up In Arms	Sheen Center
10/18	1:00 – Are the Bennet Girls OK	West End Theater
10/23	7:00 – Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God	Playwrights Horizon
10/25	2:00 – Beetlejuice	Palace Theater
10/25	7:00 – The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire	Vineyard Theater
10/26	3:00 – One Woman and Her Dog	Theater for the New City
10/26	7:00 – Queens	NYCC
11/2	1:00 – 3:30 – The World of Tomorrow	The Shed
11/2	4:00 – Drop Dead Gorgeous	La Mama
11/7	7:00 – ART	Music Box Theater
11/8	2:00 Bat Boy	New York City Center
11/8	Oh, Mary	Lyceum
11/9	Art of Leaving	Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theater
11/12	Tango in the Rockies & The Rubber Band Company	American Theater of Actors
11/13	Playing Shylock	Scripps Main Stage at Polonsky Shakespeare Center
11/14	Not Ready for Prime Time	MCC
11/15	8:00 – Connoly	Theater for the New City
12/20	5:00 – The American Soldier	Gural Theater
12/23	Predictor	AMT Theaters
12/26	Gruesome Playground Injuries	Lucille Lortel
12/27	1:00 – Beau	St Luke’s
12/27	4:30 Vape	Theater 555
12/27	7:30 – Picnic at Hanging Rock	Greenwich House Theater
12/28	3:00 – Murdoch The Final Interview	Theater 555
12/28	7:00 Pen Pals	DR2

Today is January 6 and I already have tickets for 33 shows.