For those of you who haven’t yet marked it on your calendars, Saturday was Blogday—the one-year birthday of McCarter’s blog. Since we started the blog last year, we’ve had 236 blog posts and 133 comments. The blog has received 43,557 page-views in approximately 14,600 individual site visits. We have posted about 35 entries for each of our mainstage shows.

A month ago, I asked readers to nominate their favorite blog entries for the Blogday Extravaganza Birthday Bash, and today I present those winners (and a timeline of the McCarter Blog). So come join me on a walk down memory lane:

The reader-nominated favorites:

• Lots of condoms and batteries
• Mann interviews Albee part I, part II, part III, part IV
• Top ten challenges of my Stick Fly experience
• Top ten rewards of my Stick Fly experience
• The dog blog
• Floor or subway map
• Albee and Mann podcast
• For the guy in the window
• In the market for a shovel…?
• Woof
• Albee says the darndest things

A blog timeline:

• April 5, 2007: The first blog entry (by Doug Langworthy)
• July 25, 2007: My first attempt at writing a blog entry (on cooking… my other passion)
• July 29, 2007: Our first entry by a visiting artist (Shirley Jo Finney)
• August 15, 2007: Our first multimedia blog post (we’ve had 24 since then)
• September 15, 2007: Our first actor blog post (we’ve had 33 since then)
• November 9, 2007: Our most popular blog entry is posted (it has received nearly 2,500 views)
• November 28, 2007: My favorite informative blog entry (okay, I’m biased…)
• December 4, 2007: Our first time-lapse video (A Christmas Carol)
• December 31, 2007: Our first 7 questions interview (Darron L. West)
• March 12, 2008: Our most blogged-about blog entry (how meta)
• March 28, 2008: Our first in-house YouTube video (Argonautika backstage tour)

Posted by Adam Immerwahr, Producing Associate at McCarter Theatre