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My first weekend in New York my mom and my sister were in London.  They saw The Book of Mormon, Matilda and The Lion King.  I started to get jealous.  Then I realized I had seen all of those shows.

WARNING:  Seeing this show was a really big deal for me, and I had lots of thoughts.  I’m going to go into as much detail as I would like to have heard from anyone else who had seen the show.

It’s been a week of true stories! M Butterfly, The Band’s Visit, this one, and then Hamilton tomorrow! My mom has a thing for true stories, and I think it’s impressive when one can make a true story as fascinating

Happy Birthday!  We met at Friedman’s, Amanda’s favorite restaurant because the food is just so good.  Ever since I had that burrata at Il Buco I’ve been all over it, and tonight was no different!  The silky cheesy creamy burrata

Amanda’s birthday is October 9th.  What is Amanda’s favorite thing to do?  You guessed it!  Go to dinner and an show! On Sunday night, Amanda’s birthday eve, she had tickets for us to see M Butterfly.  I suggested we go

In my summer of reuniting with long lost friends, I have made another stop.  Though we also went to the same K-12 magnet school for a couple of years, I became friends with Bethany Bezdecheck when we did theatre (and

On Friday night we were supposed to go to Long Island with Amanda’s friend Micah, but then I won the lottery for tickets to Measure for Measure at the Public, and Micah insisted that we take them.  We met him

Do you remember my artist friend, Ryan Frank, who I met up with in Paris?  He’s back in NYC where he normally lives and invited me to a show of his… on a boat! Amanda met me after work.  We

As you may have noticed, I’ve been seeing a lot of shows lately.  How do I do it without breaking the bank?  With time and flexibility in New York, I’ve learned how to play the game– and I’ll share it

I moved to New York the Wednesday before September 11th, 2001.  The planes hit the morning of my second day of school.  My mom called me from California, waking me up, to tell me that a plane had flown into