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THEATER we loved in 2025

12/10/2025

Each year, Theater in Asylum releases a list of plays, books, movies, and more that delighted us, challenged us, and changed us. Below is a crowd-sourced list of theater our community loved in 2025.

Thank you to the community who made and loved art this year! Please consider donating to Theater in Asylum so we can keep it going in 2026.

A scene from Boxcutter Collective’s production of Dimension Zero, created by the Boxcutter Collective at HERE (photo by Richard Termine).

Arborlogues at The Cell (co-created by Dan Daly!)
As You Like It (directed by Arisael Rivera!)
Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club on Broadway
Chess on Broadway
Dimension Zero at HERE (created by our friends at The Boxcutter Collective)
Emma at the Rose Theatre
English on Broadway
Evita on the West End
Fat Ham at Virginia Stage Company
Faust (Opera by Gounod) at Baruch
Glass. Kill. What if if only. Imp. (Caryl Churchill shorts) at The Public
The Gospel at Colonus at Little Island
Hot Wing King at Denver Center for Performing Arts
Hurricane Diane at Hartford Stage
Kowalski at The Duke
John Proctor is the Villain on Broadway
Liberation on Broadway
Lights Out at NYTW
Lincoln Bio at Brick Aux (created by Adin Lenahan!)
The Loneliness of Either/Or, a Requiem for Joan of Arc at Ars Nova (created by Ali Dineen!)
Manifest Destiny at Teatro Latea (featuring Jesse B. Koehler!)
Mexodus at Minetta Lane
My Neighbor Totoro on the West End)
Meet the Cartozians at Second Stage
Octet at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival)
Old Friends at MTC
Operation Mincemeat on Broadway
Bread & Puppet’s Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution in Progress Circus at the Old Stone House (featuring Paul Bedard!)
Practice at Playwrights at Playwrights Horizons
Prince Faggot at Playwrights Horizons
Ragtime at Lincoln Center
Stories Will Not Mend This Broken World at Brick Aux (written by Willie Johnson!)
Tiler Peck and Friends at City Center

Paul as Lucifer in Bread & Puppet's Circus (photo by Queenie Si)

The view from Arborlogues (photo by Dan Daly)

Stories Will Not Mend This Broken World at Brick Aux (photo by Ryan Prado)

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BOOKS we loved in 2025

12/10/2025

Each year, Theater in Asylum releases a list of plays, books, movies, and more that delighted us, challenged us, and changed us. Below is a crowd-sourced list of books our community loved in 2025.

Thank you to the community who made and loved art this year! Please consider donating to Theater in Asylum so we can keep it going in 2026.

Fiction

All Fours by Miranda July
The Charioteer by Mary Renault
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
Entitlement by Rumaan Alam
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta
James by Perceval Everett
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
The MaddAddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
The Past Is Red by Catherynne M. Valente
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
Rouge by Mona Awad
The Spirit Bares its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jiminez
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

Nonfiction

107 Days by Kamala Harris
1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Ambition Monster by Jennifer Romolini
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity by Sarah Schulman
Fire in Every Direction by Tareq Baconi
How To Make Money in Any Market by Jim Cramer
Language City by Ross Perlin
Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Strangers Drowning by Larissa MacFarquhar
Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

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FILM & TV we loved in 2025

12/10/2025

Each year, Theater in Asylum releases a list of plays, books, movies, and more that delighted us, challenged us, and changed us. Below is a crowd-sourced list of film & TV our community loved in 2025.

Thank you to the community who made and loved art this year! Please consider donating to Theater in Asylum so we can keep it going in 2026.

Films

Challengers
Chronology of Water
Hamnet
Inside Llewyn Davis
K-Pop Demon Hunters
Kneecap
Leave The World Behind
Memoir of a Snail
The Menu
My Old Ass
One of Them Days
A Real Pain
Superman (2025)
Sinners

Andor on Disney Plus
Doctor Odyssey on Hulu
Severance on Apple TV
The Pitt on HBO Max
The Studio on Apple TV

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MUSIC we loved in 2025

12/10/2025

Each year, Theater in Asylum releases a list of plays, books, movies, and more that delighted us, challenged us, and changed us. Below is a crowd-sourced list of music our community loved in 2025.

Thank you to the community who made and loved art this year! Please consider donating to Theater in Asylum so we can keep it going in 2026.

Nicolas Jaar & Ali Sethi in concert in St. Louis October 2025

Albums

Paganini: 24 Caprices played by María Dueñas
DeBI TiRAR MaS FOToS by Bad Bunny
Double Infinity by Big Thief
Dreams Come True by Judee Sill
EURO-COUNTRY by CMAT
Everybody Scream by Florence + the Machine
K-Pop Demon Hunters
Love Language by Ali Sethi
LUX by Rosalia
A Matter of Time by Laufey
Mayhem by Lady Gaga
The Romantic Spirituals by KAMAUU
SABLE, fABLE by Bon Iver
Telefone by Noname
Virgin by Lorde
Zombie by Yungblud

Sitting behind the orchestra at the NY Philharmonic

Songs

The Bluey Theme
“Childlike Things” by FKA Twigs
“Filthy/Gorgeous” by the Scissor Sisters
“Go to Hell” by Dolly Parton
“Jesus Was a Crossmaker” by Judee Sill
“This Will be Our Year” by The Zombies
“Wheels on the Bus (TECHNO)” Lenny Pearce

The Scissor Sisters in concert in July

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