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Here is a summary of all the live performances I’ve seen since 2014.

I love going to live performances such as plays, musicals, operas, and concerts. In 2024, inspired by a friend of mine, I consulted my stack of programs and Playbills at home and made a list of all the shows I had seen since 2014.¹ As any good statistician would do with such a rich dataset, I did some exploratory data analysis and these are the results.

The most recent performance I attended was on May 14, 2025 at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Philadelphia, PA. This page was last updated May 18, 2025.

Performances attended (2014-Now)

By City

By Year

All works seen

Frequency Wordclouds

Title Words

Composers/Writers (All)

Composers (Classical)

Cost

I have exact or approximate ticket prices for 91 out of the 97 performances I have attended (94%), so the following statistics were calculated using only the ticket prices I do have. 15 (16%) of the events I attended were free. The median ticket price of performances I have attended is $11.00 and the mean is $26.14.

Overall Distribution

By City

By Type of Performance

Performances I’ll be attending soon (2025 - 2026)

Footnotes

1. As such, this data does not account for shows I attended before 2024 that did not provide a program (though I don’t recall going to any that did not hand out a program!)