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Our favorite THEATER of 2024

12/19/2024

A dedication plaque outside the Hallie Flanagan Davis Theatre in Poughkeepsie, NY

Each year, Theater in Asylum releases a list of plays, books, movies, and more that delighted us, challenged us, and changed us. Below is our first list, a crowd-sourced list of THEATER our community loved in 2024.

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 2025.

The Ally at Public Theater
The Blood Quilt by Katori Hall at Lincoln Center Theater
Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage at Virginia Stage Company
Boys on the Verge of Tears by Sam Grabiner at Soho Theater
Burnout Paradise at St Ann’s
Cable Street at Southwark Playhouse
Cats: The Jellicle at PAC

CATS: The Jellicle Ball at PAC

Cult of Love at Second Stage
Doubt at Roundabout
The Following Evening created by 600 Highwaymen at the Perelman
Giant by Mark Rosenblatt at Royal Court
Good Bones by James Ijames at The Public
Gray Lady Cantata #9 by Bread & Puppet at Theater for the New City
Grenfell: in the Words of Survivors at St. Ann's Warehouse
The How to Survive the End of the World Cabaret at Jalopy
Illinoise by Sufjan Stevens & Jackie Sibblies Drury on Broadway
Imperfect Allies
Job, starring Sydney Lemon at 2nd Stage
Lempicka at Longacre Theater
McNeal by Ayad Akhtar at Lincoln Center
A Midsummer Night's Dream by Island Stage Left in San Juan Island, WA
Merrily We Roll Along

Mother Play by Paula Vogel at 2nd Stage
Mulberry Tree at LaMama
Nachtland by Marius von Mayenburg at Young Vic Theater
Once Upon a Mattress with Sutton Foster and Michael Urie
Our Class by Tadeusz Słobodzianek at Classic Stage Company
Open Throat, directed by Caitlin O’Connell at Little Island
Pins and Needles by Rob Drummond at Kiln Theater
Philadelphia Here I Come by Brian Friel at Irish Rep
Prayer for French Republic by Joshua Harmon at Manhattan Theater Club
Ragtime at City Center
Redlands by Charlotte Jones at Chichester Festival Theater
Suffs on Broadway
Three Scenes in the Life of a Trotskyist by Andy Boyd at The Tank
Wrack Zone by Eli Nixon at Ars Nova

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Our favorite BOOKS from 2024

12/17/2024

Each year, Theater in Asylum releases a list of plays, books, movies, and more that delighted us, challenged us, and changed us. Below is our first list, a crowd-sourced list of MEDIUM our community loved in 2024.

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 2025.

Fiction

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Michael Katz
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
The Guest by Emma Cline
A History of Burning by Janika Oza
Holy Rosenbergs by Ryan Craig
James by Percival Everett
The Light Pirate by Lilly Brooks-Dalton
North Woods by Daniel Mason
Orbittal by Samantha Harvey
The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Between Earth and Sky Trilogy by Rebecca Roanhorse

Non-fiction

The Devil’s Contract: The History of The Faustian Bargain by Ed Simon
Die Hot with A Vengeance: Essays on Vanity by Sable Yong
Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein: orbital by Samantha Harvey
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Janet Mills & Don Miguel Ruiz
God, Human, Animal, Machine by Meghan O'Gieblyn
Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
Knife by Salman Rushdie
The Light Eaters by Zoe Schlanger
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Micheal Schulman
Performance, Medicine, and the Human by Alex Mermikides
Queen Victoria Goes to the Theatre by George Rowell
Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society by Tony Kushner
Safe in a Midwife's Hands: Birthing Traditions from Africa to the American South by Linda Janet Holmes
Takeover, Hitler's Final Rise to Power by Timothy Ryback
Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin by Jonathan A. Allan
Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler

Poetry

The Illiad by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Walter Arndt
You can be the Last Leaf, selected poems by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat

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Our favorite MUSIC from 2024

12/15/2024

Rachel Casperian (as Mephistopheles) singing "You and I" by Ingrid Michaelson to Jesse B Koehler (as Faust) in The How to Survive the End of the World Cabaret. Photo by Shubhra Mishra

Each year, Theater in Asylum releases a list of plays, books, movies, and more that delighted us, challenged us, and changed us. Below is our first list, a crowd-sourced list of music our community loved in 2024.

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 2025.

Albums

Artificial Paradise by One Republic
brat by Charli xcx (all iterations)
Cowboy Carter by Beyonce
Dragon New Warm Mountain by Big Thief
folklore/evermore by Taylor Swift
Javelin by Sufjan Stevens
II by Kiasmos
Only God Was Above Us by Vampire Weekend
the record by Boygenius
SABLE by Bon Iver
The Spoon Benders by The Spoon Benders
Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going by Shaboozy

Songs

“Carrying the Banner” from Newsies - my daughter’s favorite song bar none
Concerto for Viola and Orchestra by Sofia Gubaidulina
"Guide You" from Little Big Things Musical Soundtrack
"Hold That Spirit" by Rate Zaragoza
“I AM” by Beautiful Chorus
"I AM" by Stan Walker
"Keep Marching On" from Suffs soundtrack
“LEVII’S JEANS” by Beyoncé
"New York" from Two Strangers Carry a Cake Across New York musical soundtrack
“Reclaim” by Shawnee Kish
“Road to Freedom” by Lenny Kravitz
"Speed" from Lempicka soundtrack
"Turn the Lights Back On" by Billy Joel
“When Scars Become Art” by Gatton
“Yemken” (Lennon's "Imagine" in Arabic) sung by Fairuz
“You and I” by Ingrid Michaelson
“we can’t be friends” by Ariana Granda

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Our favorite SCREEN ART from 2024

12/13/2024

Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator

Each year, Theater in Asylum releases a list of plays, books, movies, and more that delighted us, challenged us, and changed us. Below is our first list, a crowd-sourced list of films and television shows our community loved in 2024.

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 2025.

Films

All of Us Strangers (Hulu)
But I’m a Cheerleader
City Lights (Prime, Max, Criterion)
Challengers (Prime)
Conclave
ENO
Genius:MLK/X (Disney)
Ghostlight
The Great Dictator (Max, Criterion)
The Holdovers (Prime)
House of Gods
Israelism
May December (Netflix)
So Long Marianne
Past Lives (Paramount)
Wicked
Where Olive Trees Weep
Women Talking (Prime)
Young Woman and the Sea (Disney)
The Zone of Interest (Max)

Television

My Brilliant Friend (TV, Max)
Cross (Prime)
Disclaimer (Apple)
Fantasmas (Max)
Feud: Capote vs. The Swans (Hulu)
So Help Me Todd (Paramount)
Interior Chinatown (Hulu)
Matlock (Paramount)
Maestro in Blue (Netflix)
Origin (Hulu)
Say Nothing (Hulu)
Shogun (Hulu)
Slow Horses (Apple)

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