All the Live Art I Witnessed in 2015
What is live art? Well, in my world, it is anything that is performed, experienced, or interacted with solely in a live setting. It can be a play, a concert, or a museum exhibition. It can be a comedy show, a lecture, or a podcast taping. It doesn’t really matter, so long as it is happening in front of me, and I am there to see it in the moment.
This list will not be as extensive as some of my others, mostly because these things cost money and time, in a way the other culture consumables do not, but I still managed to engage with more than a fair share of live art over the course of 12 months. It is a list which I will organize in chronological order, and categorize thusly:
music
play
COMEDY
visual art
lecture/reading/other
January
1/29 Cirque du Soleil — Marymoor Park
1/31 JOHN MULANEY — The Moore
February
2/5 The Moth — Fremont Abbey
2/7 Rock Lottery — The Crocodile
March
3/11 The Dodos, Springtime Carnivore — Neumos
3/12 Tweedy, The Minus 5 — The Neptune
3/26 Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield — The Neptune
3/30 Guster — The Neptune
April
4/14 Neko Case — Mount Baker Theatre
4/22 Polaris — The Crocodile
May
5/3 Waxahatchee — The Crocodile
5/7 Sleater-Kinney — The Showbox
5/24 Bhi Bhiman — NW Folklife Festival
June
6/5 Hamilton Leithauser — Tractor Tavern
July
August
8/11 Wilco, Jenny Lewis — Marymoor Park
8/19 Matilda: The Musical — 5th Avenue Theatre
8/21 The Tallest Man on Earth — The Moore
8/23 Miguel — Showbox SoDo
September
9/4 Dave Matthews Band — The Gorge
9/5 Writers of the AV Club — Bumbershoot
9/5 Writers of Brooklyn Nine-Nine — Bumbershoot
9/5 Kacey Musgraves — Bumbershoot
9/6 The Cave Singers — Bumbershoot
9/6 Classixx — Bumbershoot
9/6 Social Distortion — Bumbershoot
9/6 Punch Brothers — Bumbershoot
9/6 Neko Case — Bumbershoot
October
10/11 Ariel Pink — Modern Sky Festival / Mural Amphitheatre
10/15 Ought — Sunset Tavern
10/24 TBD — Bridge School Benefit / Shoreline Amphitheatre
November
11/3 If/Then — The Paramount
11/4 El Vy — Neumos
11/6 Carrie Brownstein & Maria Semple — The Neptune
11/9 Beach Slang — Vera Project
11/10 Mr. Burns: a post-electric play — ACT Theatre
11/15 Intimate Impressionism — Seattle Art Museum
11/21 Once on This Island — Shorecrest High School
11/27 [UNKNOWN] — Laughs Comedy Spot (Kirkland)
December
12/6 Come From Away — Seattle Rep
12/11 Design Lectures: Paula Scher — Downtown Library
12/18 X — The Showbox