Posted Mid-November 2012

This is super massively incomplete!!!

THEATRE:
Body Awareness at CoHo
The One You Feed at Cerimon House
And So It Goes at ART
Page to Stage at HART (me)
Sweeney Todd at PCS
The Anxious Seat at work (me)
The Drowsy Chaperone at Broadway Rose
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime at NT Live

MOVIES:
ARGO (with R and J!)

TV:
Election results!!!
Good Luck, Charlie
Scandal (hooked)
SNL (first 9 minutes every week)
Daily Show (first 7 minutes every night)

BOOKS READ:
The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton (started)

PLAYS READ:
Many for work.

Oh, interesting.  I went five months completely forgetting this blog existed. 

What have I seen, what have I read?

Theatre:
A Doll's House at work, and all my students' work over the last five months
Persuasion and The Bridge (Wilder) at Cerimon House
The Gay Marriage Plays at ART
Locomotion at OCT
Dangerous Liaisons at Bag & Baggage
Adding Machine: a musical at Willamette University
Happy Family (Tightrope Theatre at Lents Commons.  Super naughty!)
My friend Sam's new play Lacklove--reading
A collage of verse plays at a PTWKS fundraiser
The American Pilot at Vertigo

Reading:
The Art of Fielding
My friend Nicole's play!
Fortinbras by Lee Blessing
15-20 plays for teaching
Assymetry by ??? (sorry, I try to credit playwrights but can't remember)
Sherlock Holmes binge (brand new for me)
Listening to The Hours in the car

TV:
Downton Abbey
Sherlock
All the usual:  30 Rock, Modern Family, Castle

Top of the Year

Seen or read over the holiday season, or just begun as 2012 commences.

Theatre:
Wizard of Oz (why? Oh yeah, because a sweet friend gave us comps)

Movies:
Sherlock Holmes
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Young Adult

Books:
Left To Tell by Imaculee Ilibagiza
Poisonwood Bible (3rd time?)
Started: Hip Hop America
Death Comes to Pemberley

2011 Favorites

Theatre:
Jerusalem (Broadway)
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Broadway)
Frankenstein (National Theatre)
The Pain and the Itch (Third Rail, Portland)
The Adding Machine (Theatre Vertigo, Portland)
Ghostlight (Oregon Shakespeare Festival)
The African Company Presents Richard III (OSF)The Normal Heart—not a great script now or then, but an important play and an important Broadway production in 2011, produced for all the right reasons and with its heart in the right place. Also, it allowed me to see and hear from Larry Kramer in the flesh.

Theatre—Runners up:
The Book of Mormon (never saw it, but stood outside the theatre for so many hours I feel I absorbed it--also listened to the cast recording 8700 times)
Billy Elliott and Umbrellas of Cherbourg, mostly to do with the occasion
Likewise, Ablaze (Wilson High School) for sharing it with Julian
Man and Boy, Sons of the Prophet, The Motherfucker With the Hat—not great scripts, but with thrilling performances
One Man, Two Guvnors; Importance of Being Earnest; others—NT/Broadway broadcasts
Pirates of Penzance (perfectly delivered by OSF)

Movies viewed or re-viewed:
Moneyball
Hugo
Toy Story 3
Blade Runner
Holes
School of Rock
Despicable Me
It’s a Wonderful Life (with the boys!)

Books and plays read or re-read:
The Poisonwood Bible
Bossypants
Random Harvest
1984
One Day
Clybourne Park
Arcadia
A Wife’s Tale
Moneyball
Finishing the Hat
The Blind SideThe Changeling
Plenty of Sarah Kane, Paula Vogel, Caryl Churchill, Neil LaBute, and Will Eno
A ton of other plays for work
And lots of Ruth Rendell, Rex Stout and Jane Austen. My perennials.

November 2011 Trip to NY

Saw:
Man and Boy
Sons of the Prophet
My show in rehearsals and reading--encouraged and excited!
A workshop whose name I can't quite remember--something like "What Are You Worth?" at the St. Ann's Warehouse