Saw
■ The Phantom of the Opera at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (Broadway in Chicago)
■ Gypsy at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST)
■ The Two Gentlemen of Verona, a Shakespeare Project of Chicago (SPC) production
■ Hedda Gabler at the Writers Theatre
■ Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (Broadway in Chicago)
■ Road Show at the CST
■ Rent at the Paramount Theater
■ All’s Well That Ends Well, another SPC production
■ The Foreigner at Lambs Players Theatre in San Diego
■ Henry V at the CST
■ Driving Miss Daisy (Broadway on Screen)
■ The Dance of Death at the Writers Theatre
■ Hamlet (Globe Theatre) at the CST
■ Much Ado about Nothing at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival
■ Elizabeth Rex at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival
■ Antony and Cleopatra at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival
■ Brigadoon at the Goodman Theatre
■ King Lear at the CST
■ Cats at the Paramount Theater
■ All My Sons at the Raven Theatre
■ Frankenstein (Cumberbatch as the Monster; National Theatre Live)
■ Porgy and Bess at the Lyric Opera
■ Iphigenia in Aulis at the Court Theatre
■ The Testament of Mary at the Victory Gardens Theater
■ Isaac’s Eye at the Writers Theatre
■ The Humans at the American Theatre Company
■ Pericles at the CST
■ A Q Brothers’ Christmas Carol at the CST

Heard
■ Shaun Hopper at ECC’s SecondStage
■ Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Center
■ Jeffrey Foucault at ECC’s SecondStage
■ Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes at Chicago Symphony Center
■ Violinist Itzhak Perlman at the Lyric

Visited, Experienced
■ “Feathered Friends,” a Brookfield Zoo behind-the-scenes event
■ Field Museum (multiple visits)
■ “Imagining Henry V” — a CST behind-the-scenes event
■ A Stephen Sondheim-centric behind-the-scenes event at the CST
■ Lincoln Park Conservatory
■ Art Institute of Chicago (multiple visits)
■ A nature drawing class
■ A bird banding event during International Migratory Bird Day celebrations
■ A scholar luncheon featuring lectures on Henry V — a CST behind-the-scenes event
■ SeaWorld (San Diego)
■ San Diego Zoo
■ San Diego Museum of Art
■ U.S.S. Midway Museum
■ Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve
■ White Sox v. New York Yankees
■ “Kandinsky: A Retrospective” at the Milwaukee Art Museum
■ Bristol Renaissance Faire
■ Fermilab: “Get to Know…” tour
■ John G. Shedd Aquarium
■ A Pericles-centric behind-the-scenes event at the CST
■ Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
■ The Frederick C. Robie House
■ Lincoln Park Zoo
■ Museum of Contemporary Art
■ Milwaukee County Zoo
■ Adler Planetarium