Our favorite things in 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

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

• 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!