{"id":23330,"date":"2026-01-21T03:40:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23330"},"modified":"2026-01-11T10:43:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T16:43:43","slug":"2025-the-year-in-live-performances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/2025-the-year-in-live-performances\/","title":{"rendered":"2025: The Year In Live Performances"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a slow 2024<\/a>, things rebounded a bit in 2025 for live performances, including a comedy show, a play, a live podcast taping, and a concert.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I kicked off the year on Valentine’s Day, heading downtown to the Chicago Theatre to see comedian Taylor Tomlinson’s Save Me<\/em> tour.\u00a0 I became a fan thanks to her gig hosting the revived @fter Midnight<\/em> on CBS and was thrilled to see her perform live, my first comedy show since 2023.\u00a0 After two opening acts, Tomlinson came out and commanded the stage.\u00a0 Once she wrapped things up, she came back out with her openers and did a round of crowd confessions, where they riffed on stories the crowd had texted in earlier.\u00a0 During the show, a snowstorm started to roll through town, which made getting out of the theater and getting home dry and in one piece a bit tricky.<\/p>\n

\"\"In March, I made my first visit to Texas in 20 years to take Michael to see the stage version of\u00a0Clue<\/em>. He was sick when Angelina, Danny, and I saw it in Chicago back in 2022<\/a>, so the experience was a new one for him.\u00a0 We travelled from his dorm in Dallas to the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth on a Saturday afternoon to enjoy the show based on the movie.\u00a0 Sadly, that was pretty much the total of our interaction, as he kept mostly to his dorm room the remainder of our visit.<\/p>\n

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I returned to the Chicago Theatre in September for a live taping of the Inside Jeopardy! podcast.\u00a0 Following the podcast taping, featuring Celebrity Jeopardy!<\/em> champion W. Kamu Bell and Jeopardy Masters<\/em> finalist Juveria Zaheer, Ken Jennings came out to play an interactive round of Jeopardy with the audience.\u00a0 Sadly, a limited signal prevented me from playing along on my phone, but it was still a good time.<\/p>\n

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My final live performance of the year came in late September when Garbage performed at the Salt Shed, which was my first ever visit to the new-ish venue.\u00a0 Proclaiming that this was likely to be their final headlining tour of North America, the group put on a great performance that left the audience begging for more.\u00a0 They have some European dates on the schedule for this summer that I would absolutely attend had I won the billion-dollar Powerball, but this might have been the end of the road for me seeing my favorite band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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