Saturday, December 29, 2018

The Year in Review

Gotham Playgoer Year in Review — 2018

A (excellent)
My Fair Lady
The Ferryman

A- (Very Good)
Admissions
The Boys in the Band
Desperate Measures
Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo
Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish)
Girls and Boys
Hangmen
The Hello Girls
Lifespan of a Fact
The New One
The Niceties
Oklahoma!
Our Lady of 121st Street
The Prom
Slave Play
Three Tall Women
Travesties

B+ (good)
The Band’s Visit
Conflict
Dan Cody’s Yacht
The Head and the Load
Lobby Hero
Operation Crucible
The Originalist
To Kill a Mockingbird
Transfers
Yerma

B
Amy and the Orphans
Apologia
A Brief History of Women
Carmen Jones
Head over Heels
The Metromaniacs
Feeding the Dragon
The Low Road
Miles for Mary
Paradise Blue
Tchaikovsky: None But the Lonely Heart
Secret Life of Humans
The True

B-
American Son
Blue Ridge
Carousel
Cyprus Avenue
Days of Rage
Fairview
Final Follies
The Hard Problem
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Hindle Wakes
Jerry Springer: The Opera
Kings
Lewiston/Clarkston
Log Cabin
Mlima’s Tale
Mother of the Maid
Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story
An Ordinary Muslim
Pass Over
Skintight
Straight White Men
Uncle Vanya (Hunter Theater Project)
We Live by the Sea
Wild Goose Dreams

C+ (fair)
The Beast in the Jungle
Children of a Lesser God
Daniel’s Husband
Girl from the North Country
The Great Leap
The House That Will Not Stand
A Letter to Harvey Milk
John Lithgow: Stories by Heart
queens
Summer and Smoke
The Thanksgiving Play
This Flat Earth
Waitress
What the Constitution Means to Me

C
The Amateurs
Bernhardt/Hamlet
Bobbie Clearly
Cardinal
The Damned
Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine
I Was Most Alive with You
Miss You Like Hell
Network
Noura
Relevance
The Waverly Gallery
Thom Pain (based on nothing)
Usual Girls

C-
Betty’s Summer Vacation
Collective Rage: Play in 5 Betties
Days To Come
Downstairs
Escape to Margaritaville
Mary Page Marlowe
A Walk with Mr. Heifetz

D+ (poor)
Gettin’ the Band Back Together
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

D
Fire and Air
Good Grief
LaBute New Theater Festival
Mankind
The Nap
Plot Points in Our Sexual Development

I (incomplete, i.e. so bad that I did not return after intermission)
Good for Otto
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire


Here is a comparison with last year. Interestingly, the percentage of B’s and C’s is identical, but the percentage of A’s has increased and the percentage of D’s has decreased. So I would say 2018 was a slightly better year. Here’s hoping 2019 will be even better!


2018 2017

A, A- 17%                                  14%                               
B+, B, B-         42%                                  42%
C+, C, C-         32%                                  32%
D+, D, D-           7%                                  11%
F                       0%                                    1%
I                        2%                                    0%





2 comments:

  1. Thanks very much for your timely, insightful and well-written reviews, Bob. Very appreciated.

    Happy New Year!

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  2. I truly look forward to receiving your reviews (even though our grades aren't remotely the same). Very enjoyable! Thank you for taking the time. Now -- onto the 2019 list. Happy, Healthy, Exciting new year!

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