The Year in Review

Gotham Playgoer Year in Review — 2019

A+ (excellent)

My Fair Lady (revisited)

A

All My Sons

A- (very good)

Enter Laughing: The Musical

Eureka Day

Hadestown (Broadway)

Ink

Little Shop of Horrors

Make Believe

Moulin Rouge

A Strange Loop

B+ (good)

Ain’t No Mo

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven

The Inheritance

Kiss Me, Kate!

Merrily We Roll Along

Mojada

The Rolling Stone

Seared

The Secret Life of Bees

Tootsie

Underground Railroad Game

White Noise

B 

Bella, Bella

Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune

Handbagged

The New Englanders

Power Strip

Something Clean

The Sorceress
Summer Shorts: Series B

We’re Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time

B-

Boesman and Lena

Greater Clements

The Lehman Trilogy

Linda Vista

Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow

The Mountains Look Different

Novenas for a Lost Hospital

Octet

The Pain of My Belligerence

Rinse, Repeat

The Sound Inside

Superhero

Switzerland

C+ (fair)

The Cake

The Cradle Will Rock

The Height of the Storm

LaBute New Theater Festival

The Light

Little Women

The Mother

Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie

Socrates

Toni Stone

C

Burn This

Do You Feel Anger?

The Great Society

Hillary and Clinton

Nantucket Sleigh Ride

Scotland, PA

Soft Power

Summer Shorts: Series A

Two’s a Crowd

The Wrong Man

The Young Man from Atlanta

C-

Alice by Heart

BLKS

Continuity

Curse of the Starving Class

“Daddy”

Fleabag

Happy Talk

Heroes of the Fourth Turning

Life Sucks.

Long Lost

Nomad Motel

True West

D (poor)

Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy

F (terrible)

The Waiting Game

If you would like to read my review of any of the plays listed, simply type the name in the search box at the left side of the menu bar next to the stylized B logo.

Here is a comparison with the last two years. Interestingly, the percentage of B’s has remained constant. but the percentage of C's has increased while the percentage of both A’s and D’s has decreased. Fewer bright spots but fewer clunkers. You may have noticed that I reviewed about 30% fewer plays this year. I was seeing more than I could enjoy so I have deliberately cut back.

                    2019    2018                    2017  

A, A-            13%     17%                      14%                               

B+, B, B-     42%            42%                       42%

C+, C, C-     41%     32%                       32%

D+, D, D-       3%          7%                       11%

F                    1%        0%                        1%

I                     0%          2%                        0%