Not coincidentally, I am also getting off of social media, for a wide variety of reasons I may or may not elaborate on in a future post. Anything I used to post there I will now start sharing here, and this includes shots of the playbills for each show I attend. 

This past weekend, I saw two: Kate Robin's What They Have, produced by the Little Theatre of Winston-Salem, and Bonnie Antosh's Lemuria from Creative Greensboro.

I started this blog eleven years ago as a way to promote my design work and share updates on the local theatre community. The last time I posted in it was almost nine. Every year I resolve to pick it back up again and somehow manage not to.

I'm trying to make it stick this time, starting with my annual attendance update.  I'm very lucky to live in an area with a lot of theatre companies, both professional and volunteer, and a couple of years ago I made the decision to attend as many productions as possible. Last year, 2024, I saw a total of eighty-three shows, four more than I saw the previous year.

Out of those eighty-three, I worked on eighteen in some capacity. Twelve of those seventeen were for the Little Theatre of Winston-Salem, my full-time employer, while the other six were produced by Kernersville Little Theatre, Creative Greensboro, Spring Theatre, and Summerfield Stage Company.

The rest of the shows I saw were produced by these companies and schools:

Spirit Gum Theatre
Camel City Playhouse
Atkins High School
Triad Pride Acting Company
Stained Glass Playhouse
Guilford College
Temple Theatre Company
NC Black Repertory
Salem Academy and College
Wake Forest University Theatre 
40 Plus Stage Company
Shared Radiance
Common Thread
Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance

I'd also like to mention these other local theatres whose shows I was unable to attend:

Lexington Live
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
North Carolina A&T University
Greensboro College
Community Theatre of Greensboro