A Little Culture

Keeping a running list of the performances and lectures I've been privileged to attend.

Theatre:
pre-2005:
  • Thoroughly Modern Millie (Broadway)
  • Rent (Raleigh)
  • Assassins, Ran Together, Soul Notes, Richard III, No Greater Heroes, and Angels in America, part 1. (Chapel Hill)
2005 (all London):
  • The Woman in White (Palace)
  • The Philadelphia Story (Old Vic)
  • Blithe Spirit (Savoy)
  • Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (New Ambassador's)
  • The Lion King (Lyceum)
  • Henry IV (National Theatre)
  • This Is How It Goes (Donmar Warehouse)
  • Mary Poppins (Prince Edward)
  • Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly)
  • The Winter's Tale (Globe)
 2006 (all London):
  • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Haymarket)
  • Wicked (Victoria)
  • Spamalot (Palace)
  • Sound of Music (Palladium)
2007 (all London):
  • Love Song (New Ambassadors)
  • Man of Mode (National Theatre)
  • The History Boys (Wyndham's)
  • The Glass Menagerie (Apollo)
  • Underneath the Lintel (Duchess)
  • Blood Brothers (Phoenix)
2008:
  • The Little Prince (Playmakers, CH)
2009:
  • Year of Magical Thinking (Studio)
  • Rent (Warner)
  • Ragtime (Kennedy Center)
  • Spring Awakening (Kennedy Center)
  • Tupperware: An American Musical Fable (Chicago)
  • Jersey Boys (Chicago)
  • Barack Stars (Woolly Mammoth)
  • Phantom of the Opera (Venetian, Las Vegas)
  • Lost in Yonkers (Theatre J)
  • August: Osage County (Kennedy Center)
2010:
  • Barack Stars: Wrath of Rahm (Woolly Mammoth)
  • Reasons to be Pretty (Studio)
  • Mary Poppins (Kennedy Center)
  • Sabrina Fair (Ford's Theatre)
  • House of Gold (Woolly Mammoth)
  • The Odd Couple (Theatre J)
  • Hair (Kennedy Center)
  • The Laramie Project (Arena Stage)
2011:
  • Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (Woolly Mammoth)
  • Liberty Smith (Ford's Theatre)
  • A Time to Kill (Arena Stage)
  • Reduced Shakespeare Company's Completely Hollywood: Abridged (Kennedy Center)
  • Oklahoma (Arena Stage)
  • Wicked (Kennedy Center)
  • Les Miserables (Kennedy Center)
2012:
  • Spamalot (Warner)
  • 8 (Woolly Mammoth)
  • Memphis (Kennedy Center)
  • Spring Awakening (Keegan)
  • A Normal Heart (Arena)
2013:
  • Anything Goes (Kennedy Center)
  • Book of Mormon (Kennedy Center)
  • A Few Good Men (Keegan)

Ballet:
  • The Nutcracker by North Carolina Ballet (Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill, 2005)
  • Romeo and Juliet by American Ballet Theatre (Kennedy Center, 2010)
  • Mixed Repertoire by Suzanne Farrell Ballet (Kennedy Center, 2010)
  • Mixed Repertoire by American Ballet Theatre (Kennedy Center, 2011) 
  • Giselle by Mariinsky Ballet (Kennedy Center, 2011)
  • Don Quixote by Ballet Nacional de Cuba (Kennedy Center, 2011)
  • Mixed Repertoire by San Francisco Ballet (Kennedy Center, 2012)

Comedians:
  • Lewis Black (UNC, 2005, 2006)
  • Demetri Martin (Warner, 2009)
  • Jon Stewart (GW, 2009)
  • Seth Meyers (Warner, 2013)

Concerts:
  • New Kids on the Block (Charlotte, 1990)
  • Alan Jackson (Walnut Creek, mid-nineties)
  • Garth Brooks (Greensboro, late-nineties)
  • NSYNC, (Coliseum, Charlotte, 2000)
  • Gavin Degraw (Cat's Cradle, Chapel Hill, 2004)
  • U2 (Bobcats Arena, Charlotte, 2005; Carter Finley, Raleigh, 2009)
  • Coldplay (Verizon Center, DC, 2008)
  • Concert on the mall (2009)
  • Jason Mraz and Ben Folds (Smith Center, GW, 2009)
  • Folger Consort presents Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers at Washington National Cathedral (2010)
  • James Taylor and Carole King (Bobcats Arena, Charlotte, 2010)
  • Citizen Cope (Warner, DC, 2011)
  • Doctor Dog, Flogging Molly, and Avett Brothers (Merriweather, MD, 2011)
  • Matt Nathanson (9:30 Club, DC, 2011)
  • Delta Spirit (9:30 Club, DC, 2012)
  • Wilco (Wolf Trap, VA, 2012)
  • Band of Horses and My Morning Jacket (Merriweather, MD, 2012) 
  • Matt Wertz (Hamilton, DC, 2012) 
  • Frightened Rabbit (9:30 Club, DC, 2013)
  • Rihanna (Verizon Center, DC, 2013)
  • Paul McCartney (Nats Stadium, DC, 2013)
  • Fun. (Merriweather, MD, 2013)

Other:
  • Helen Thomas (UNC, 2003)
  • Gerda Klein (UNC, 2003)
  • Sam Donaldson (UNC, 2004)
  • Al Franken (UNC, 2005)
  • Eric Montross (UNC, 2005) 
  • John Stossel (UNC, 2006)
  • Jim Wallis (Duke, 2006)
  • Madeleine Albright (UNC, 2007)
  • Frank Warren (GW, 2009)
  • Rahm Emanuel (GW, 2009)
  • Michelle Obama (GW, 2010)
  • Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg interview with NPR's Nina Totenberg (GW, 2011)
  • Jonathan Adler (Corcoran, 2012)
  • David Westin (Newseum, 2012)

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