THEATER IN ASYLUM

Our favorite THEATER of 2024

12/19/2024

 
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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
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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​
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  • 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

 
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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

 
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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

 
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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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