Updating My Lists

I am a maker of lists, and I have not updated my lists since July of last year.

I last updated the list of theater performances Andrew and I have attended together on July 7, 2009.

Since that time, we have attended another eighteen theater performances, bringing to seventy-nine the number of theater performances Andrew and I have attended since February 2006.

Theater performances over the last twelve months are listed below, in the order we attended them.

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J. B. Priestley’s “When We Are Married”, at The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis

George Bernard Shaw’s “The Devil’s Disciple”, at The Shaw Festival, Niagara-On-The-Lake

Garson Kanin’s “Born Yesterday”, at The Shaw Festival, Niagara-On-The-Lake

Eugene O’Neill’s “A Moon For The Misbegotten”, at The Shaw Festival, Niagara-On-The-Lake

The Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine Musical, “Sunday In The Park With George”, at The Shaw Festival, Niagara-On-The-Lake

George Bernard Shaw’s “In Good King Charles’s Golden Days”, at The Shaw Festival, Niagara-On-The-Lake

Thomas Heggen’s And Joshua Logan’s “Mister Roberts”, at New Repertory Theater Company, Watertown

The Cole Porter-Samuel And Bella Spewack Musical, “Kiss Me, Kate”, at The Lyric Stage Company, Boston

Evan Smith’s “The Savannah Disputation”, at SpeakEasy Stage Company, Boston

Harold Pinter’s “The Caretaker”, at Central Square Theater, Cambridge

Conor McPherson’s “The Seafarer”, at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Lowell

Gerald Sibleyras’s And Tom Stoppard’s “Heroes”, at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Lowell

The Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler Musical, “A Little Night Music”, at The Walter Kerr Theatre, New York

Noel Coward’s “Present Laughter”, at American Airlines Theatre, New York

Arthur Miller’s “A View From The Bridge”, at The Cort Theatre, New York

Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons”, at The Huntington Theatre Company, Boston

Doug Wright’s “I Am My Own Wife”, at Signature Theatre, Arlington

Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit”, at The Lyric Stage Company, Boston

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Nothing we saw during the last year was particularly good. We were especially disappointed in the quality of performance on display at The Shaw Festival. Prior to our visit to Niagara-On-The-Lake, we had assumed—wrongly—that the quality of performance at the storied Canadian venue would be at the highest standard.