Show Statistics

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 February 18, 2026 at the Field Concert Hall in Philadelphia, PA. This page was last updated March 01, 2026.

Performances attended (2014-now)

By City

By Year

All works seen

Frequency Wordclouds

Title Words

Composers/Writers (Non-classical)

Composers (Classical)

Cost

I have exact or approximate ticket prices for 109 out of the 114 performances I have attended (96%), so the following statistics were calculated using only the ticket prices I do have. 20 (18%) of the events I attended were free. The median ticket price of performances I have attended is $10.75 and the mean is $24.55.

Overall Distribution

By City

By Type of Performance

Encore

Among the 31 performances that could have had an encore,² 17 (55%) of them actually had an encore.

Performances I’ll be attending soon (2026 - 2027)

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!)

2. The performances in which encores are likely are classical music recitals and classical music concerts with a soloist. I would not expect encores from any student recitals or student concerts.