THEATER IN ASYLUM

Our favorite things in 2022

12/28/2022

 
Each year, Theater in Asylum releases a list of plays, books, movies, and more that delighted us, challenged us, and changed us. Below find a list, crowd-sourced from our community, of our favorite things from 2022.

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Plays

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  • American Utopia by David Byrne (recently on Broadway)
  • The Apocalypse Defiance Circus by The Bread and Puppet Theater (recently at Theater for the New City)
  • Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis (currently playing at Second Stage)
  • The Bottom’s Bible by Adin Lenahan (recently at Dixon Place)
  • Caroline, or Change by Jeanine Tesori and Tony Kushner (recently on Broadway)
  • A Case for the Existence of God by Samuel D. Hunter (recently at Signature)
  • Downstate by Bruce Norris (currently at Playwrights Horizons)
  • E=MC2 by Hallie Flanagan (recently cold read)
  • Fat Ham by James Ijames (recently at the Public, soon to be on Broadway)
  • Finished Waiting by The Bread and Puppet Theater (recently at Judson)
  • The FTP Cabaret by Theater in Asylum (recently at Jalopy)
  • Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda (currently on Broadway)
  • Hillary and Clinton by Lucas Hnath (recently cold read)
  • How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
  • Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine (currently on Broadway)
  • Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori (currently on Broadway) 
  • The Ohio State Murders by Adrienne Kennedy (currently on Broadway)
  • Radio MacBeth by SITI Company (recently at Skirball)
  • Saint Joan of the Stockyards by Bertolt Brecht (recently cold read)
  • A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson (currently on Broadway)
  • Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks (currently on Broadway)
  • Trash by James Caverly & Andrew Morrill (recently at JACK)
  • Yamaya's Belly by Quiara Alegría Hudes (recently cold read)

Books

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Fiction
  • All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
  • Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
  • Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles
  • Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
  • The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
  • Sea of Tranquillity by Emily St. John Mandel
  • A Season in the Congo by Aime Césaire
  • A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
  • A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Keenan
  • White Noise by Don Delillo
  • Bewilderment by Richard Powers

Poetry
  • Loose Woman by Sandra Cisneros
  • Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong 

Non-fiction
  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer
  • The Bright Ages by Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry
  • At the Center of All Beauty by Fenton Johnson
  • Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
  • The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow
  • Delivered from Distraction by Edward Hallowell and John Ratey
  • Eleanor and Hick by Susan Quinn
  • On Freedom by Maggie Nelson
  • Gentrification of the Mind by Sarah Schulman
  • Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison
  • The Nutmeg's Curse by Amitav Ghosh
  • Traveling While Black by Nanjala Nyabola
  • Unbowed by Wangari Maathai
  • The Women’s House of Detention by Hugh Ryan

Music

  • Company (Spanish version)
  • Dance Fever by Florence and the Machine
  • Dirt Femme by Tove Lo 
  • Four Wheels and the Truth by Diners
  • To Let a Good Thing Die by Bruno Major
  • Natural Brown Prom Queen by Sudan Archives
  • Pohorylle by Margot Cilker
  • Renaissance by Beyonce
  • Second Nature by Lucius
  • Icelandic pop on the whole, lots of good stuff coming out of that lil island
  • Teyr (a band)
  • Bach's partitas and sonatas for solo violin
  • Jukebox the Ghost (a band)
  • Maintenance Phase! (a podcast)

Movies & TV

Movies
  • Dead Pigs
  • Don’t Worry Darling
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Fire Island
  • Grizzly Man
  • Judas and the Black Messiah
  • EO
  • The Lady Eve
  • My Name Is Salt
  • Singing in the Rain
  • Sea Gypsies
TV
  • The Bear
  • Creamerie
  • Only Murders in the Building
  • Our Flag Means Death
  • Fleabag 
  • Heartstopper
  • Perfect Life
  • Reboot
  • Severance
  • Superstore
  • Too Hot To Handle

Memories we'll cherish from 2022

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  • Community of church and friends
  • My entire family (parents, siblings, their spouses and kids) came out to visit for a couple weeks
  • The FTP Cabaret, of course!
  • A surprise performance by Bruce Springsteen at The Killers' show at MSG
  • Sprinting in slow motion through a painted archway in Theater for the New City, while the band played "Chariots of Fire", as we arrived at our final tour stop in the cross-country circus tour.
  • Getting a puppy!
  • Watching a Fish Eagle dive for a fish - the power and majesty of watching an animal do exactly what it was designed to do
  • Taking 2 shows on tour this fall!
  • Moving in with my partner :)

Things we're looking forward to in 2023

  • Environmental discussions
  • Visiting friends in South Africa!!
  • The FTP show, of course!
  • THE FTP SHOW!
  • Getting back into rehearsal with the characters of the FTP Show
  • Traveling perhaps.
  • The FTP Show! (And hopefully finding a better title for it!)
  • More gatherings & collaborations with NYC indie theater friends!
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