2025, The Book Of Mormon. I'd actually seen it before, but went with some people who hadn't. Hit just as good as the first time I saw it.

I saw a local college production of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson that resulted in some audience members walking out and was adjusted to act as a critique of right-wing populism and Trump.

Most Recent: Hamilton.

Favorite: Phantom of the Opera.

Random general love of theatre: Wizard of Oz performed by a group of middle schoolers. They were all really committed to the performance and put on a fun show.

Spamalot. I heard some negative things and wasn't that excited to see it. However, it was actually quite good and I had a lot of fun.

We saw Wicked for the second time last year. Such a good musical! Went to Keller Auditorium for that one, first viewing was actual Broadway in New York.

Next month we're seeing Phantom of the Opera!

About a month ago, I went to a donation-driven community theater improv/Edgar Allen Poe thing.

Not sure if it counts, but I took my daughter to see Shen Yun last week. It's a pretty show and all, but multiple acts had super heavy handed religious elements, which were pretty off putting. One song was about how you should keep to the traditional values and the worst things in the world are atheists and the theory of evolution. Big applause. Can't really recommend, despite the nice costumes and dances.

The last opera I saw was Fellow Travelers by Spears, an 2016 opera based on a novel of the same title about two men who fall in love during the Lavender Scare. It was absolutely heart-rending, just the most tragic love story you could possibly imagine, and the sex scenes were so hot — I don’t think I’d ever seen a fully nude scene at an opera before, even if it was just from behind, and the tenor clearly had spent some time in the gym to prepare. Highly recommend you go see it if you have a chance.

Patrick Stewart's one man performance of A Christmas Carol, in 1994.

A) This is indeed a thing that happened and absolutely was not some kind of hallucination, and B) obviously I don't go to shows very often, do I?

I was involved in more than 60 theatrical productions until my health no longer allowed almost a decade ago now. I miss it terribly. Mostly community theatre, but a few professional (i.e. paid) productions. Mostly sound design / running sound/mics, but on stage a dozen or so times, backstage a few times.

The last thing I saw was Come From Away. Kinda cheesy in some ways, but also pretty good show - I'd recommend it. About that Canadian airport that saw a ton of planes land on 9/11 when US airspace was shut down. The local community came together and took care of all the passengers and lifelong friendships were formed. It's sweet. And a bit cheesy. But fun, and emotional moments.

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

That's probably the most Lemmy-approved answer I'm ever going to give to a question here.

Last month my nephew's high school performed Bye Bye Birdie. It was good, but not as good as when they performed Les Miserables last year. That was so emotional and moving it was 🔥

Their school does full live orchestra, lighting, sets, costumes, the works.

A play called Souvenir, late last year, put on by a local theater company. (Incidentally, their theater is in the building that used to be the gym when I was in college. It looks really nice inside now, and you would never guess that it was the most divey, stanky gym you had ever seen for like 60 years beforehand. I loved that place.)

Anyway, the play was about a famously bad singer who gained fame for how off-pitch she was. It was funny, heartwarming, and very well done. I didn't know it while watching the play, but she was a real person, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Foster_Jenkins

I saw Lizard Boy at Portland Center Stage a couple times last week. Once with a friend who saw six showings in a row, and once with her and my wife soon after. Was quite good.

I'm a performer and my partner's also in the arts, so uhhh, -1 hours

Book of Mormon! My first time seeing it and had a great time

Sherwood at the Oregon Cabernet Theater (Ashland). It was pretty good. Can’t go wrong with dinner and a show there, but they have yet to top their performance of Clue.

Actually, in hindsight, it might have been a show at the Camelot Theater in Talent. That one, whatever it was, ran twice as long as it had any right to.

If watching a recorded theatre performance from the comfort of my own sofa counts, then The National Theatre's presentation of The Importance of Being Earnest, which is wonderful.

In terms of seeing a live performance while in the actual theatre then it would be Rocky Horror back in 2019.

Edit: Just remembered that we saw Wicked in London in December 2025, before we saw the movie. That was fun.

A local high school production of Seussical the Musical

Does it count when i was doing the music and light? If yes then it was "Die 8 Frauen"

Cabaret at the end of 2025. It was haunting and beautiful

Operation Mincemeat back in March, a few days before the original cast’s last day. It was absolutely incredible

My wife and I love going to the theater. We have a couple of local playhouses, so therefore options, but still find it difficult to go with any regularity.

I think the last thing we saw was Primary Trust in 2024 (!! I can't believe it's been that long)

The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Abridged. That's the title of the show, I'm dead serious. A cast of three, trying to ram their way through all of Shakespeare's works within two hours. Sonnets included. It's hilarious.

The last live theater performance I saw was "Puss in boots" from Tieck, the last performance I played in. I watched it from the stage.

Locally written and produced whodunnit dinner theatre. Before that, university produced Othello.

Lion King on Tour was last one I saw. It was awesome.

The last live theater I saw was Peter Pan Goes Wrong. Amazingly good. That Cornley theater knows how to put on a great show.

Aida on Freakin' Broadway in NYC. I'm not a theatre type but I was in the area for a few years, and the performance was everything I hoped to see in a real broadway play; but I was a little disappointed to learn people do not dress up - biz-casual at least - to see a show.

Last year I saw a 70s rock anthem retelling of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights Dream. I cannot for the life of me remember who put it on though.

Edit: Directed by Daryl Cloran, here be an article

2025, Saw the Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Saw

It's a comedy musical with a tiny cast Seeing it live was a hilariously fun night. I highly recommend it for anyone who enjoyed the first couple of Saw movies.

Without spoiling it too much, it expanded on the latent gay tension between the two main characters in the first movie and included several jokes for fans of the series.

My favorite musical is the Sweeny Todd casting with Angela Lansbury. The characters are all perfectly cast, and Angela Lansbury is a treat every time she's on stage.

Last one I saw was "Who's Holiday", a drag production featuring Cindy Lou Who from the Grinch Who Stole Christmas, all grown up and living in a trailer park.

https://bagnbaggage.org/event/whos-holiday/2023-12-01/

Last year I went to a performance of Beauty and the Beast that included the audience. They had two long dinner tables that everyone sat at. The actors worked around us. Running on the tables and in between us. At the far end was the throne chair.

There was also a live band mixed into the set and playing the music and sound effects.

My only complaint is my neck hurt after from all the looking back and forth. The concept was great. Tho.

2026. I saw the turn of the screw at the opera.

What Haunting of Bly manor is technically based on

Pretty boring stuff. Wouldn’t recommend

Marty's one man show.

Who's afraid of virginia woolf at portland playhouse.

It was incredible, as that play always is. The male lead outperformed the female lead, which i feel is less common than vice versa, but everyone was great.

Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat ! A regional high school did a fantastic job with it.

It was an amateur production of Shakespeare's As You Like It that a friend and his son were both acting in. It could have been quite stodgy, but the actors made it good fun.

Last thing I saw was either Wicked or Hamilton. I'm not sure which. But if you want to count it, I saw Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban with a live orchestra instead of the soundtrack. It was... magical.

I'm in line for one right now, I'll let you know how it went when it's done.

this post made me realise i can't remember

time to go to the theatre darlings!

Saw Les Miserables last year. Third time seeing it and it's still fantastic.

Saw Mary Jane on Broadway a couple years back, staring the phenomenal Rachel McAdams. It was good, it was very sad, and heartwrenching, and McAdams did a phenomenal job. She has a ton of range, hope she returns to the theater sometime.

Inside No. 9 at the Hammersmith Apollo. So glad I got to see it before they finished.

It's been a minute. The last showing of Hedwig and the Angry Inch with Neil Patrick Harris as the lead.

Eddie/Suzy Izzard conducting a solo performance of the entire play of Hamlet.

I've been doing volunteer usher work lately so last one I saw was Blithe Spirit done at the local community college.

If you twst the definition a bit: 2022, I saw Dream Theater live

Oh, that's not what you meant? Color me shocked...

In that case, 2003, Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera

Mine was Rocky Horror... Unless you want to count a Steve Martin + Martin Short comedy show. That's kind of like theater, right?

I work in live theatre, so my perspective is a little skewed. The last one I went to see (instead of working) was The Drowsy Chaperone, a musical within a play.

The concept is that an old (slightly odd, but very welcoming) man is inviting the audience into his house, to listen to an old vinyl broadway recording in his living room. Sort of like a Mr. Rogers Neighborhood episode. As he (and the audience) listens to the record, his imagination blooms and his house transforms into the set for the musical. So the characters in the musical are dancing and singing around his house, while he sits in his armchair (or putters around his room, making tea, serving finger sandwiches, etc) and breaks the fourth wall to add commentary.

It’s a comedy wrapped around a tragedy. The musical is very bright and cheery, but the old man clearly has some eccentricities that begin to show through the cracks as the show progresses. It’s an interesting commentary on the “circus” part of bread and circus, as it explores things like escapism, agoraphobia, and OCD as the man’s happy facade slowly crumbles while the musical progresses (and gets interrupted a few times, which is extremely triggering for him). It becomes clear that he’s only able to maintain his happy public persona for a little while.

As for the last show I actually saw, it was a traditional Indian dance show. I work a lot of those, because traditional Indian dance has a sort of test for their dancers. It’s not a perfect comparison, but many people compare it to a black belt test in karate. Since every dancer has to go through it, there are a lot of them.

Not counting a recent shadow cast Rocky Horror Picture Show, last would be the university production of Antigone my buddy was in like 12 years ago.

My mom was a huge Broadway fan, so I've seen Chicago and Les Mis on Broadway, and Les Mis and Wicked a couple of times locally. My wife and I are going to NYC this fall and we're gonna do a Broadway show since she's never been to one. Haven't decided which one yet, leaning towards Book of Mormon but we'll have to see what's playing while we're there.

This weekend. Henry V at the RSC

I see I am amongst people of culture, so I won't bore you with too many ignoble details. It was last October and my wife and I were on our anniversary trip to the mountains of western North Carolina, and my wife dragged me to one of those musical dinner theaters in Pigeon Forge Tennessee. I'm not going to say which one, because the show was just so god-awful I'm afraid that naming them would seem impolite. It was a patriotic themed show, and the place was maybe a tenth of the way filled at most. I'm one of those people who easily suffer from second-hand embarrassment, and I was cringing so hard it was beginning to manifest into physical discomfort. It couldn't end fast enough, and when it was over my wife looked at me and actually apologized for inflicting that upon us. I must admit, I had a hard time masking my lack of enthusiasm when she first told me of her plans...