Tuesday, January 01, 2008

2008 Archive

I do not like rating shows--I prefer to let descriptions speak for themselves. To correct for bias, I've compiled these ratings between December 22 and December 26, comparatively grouping shows into seven categories, from the unmissable to the unwatchable.

Unmissable (Six Stars)
Aliens With Extraordinary Skills - [29 September] OFF
Blasted - [9 October] OFF-OFF
Bride - [23 March] OFF-OFF
Crooked - [19 April] OFF
Fabrik - [29 January] OFF-OFF
God's Ear - [16 April] OFF
How Theater Failed America - [1 June] OFF
Hostage Song - [5 April] OFF-OFF
Passing Strange - [5 March] ON
Rainbow Kiss - [20 March] OFF-OFF
Scenes from an Execution - [6 July] OFF
Southern Promises - [22 September] OFF-OFF
Women Beware Women - [13 December] OFF

Excellent (Five Stars)
ANGER/NATION - [13 September] OFF-OFF
Around the World in 80 Days - [26 July] OFF
Bound in a Nutshell - [9 August] OFF-OFF
Catch-22 [23 November] OFF
The Cripple of Inishmaan [19 December] OFF
Dawn - [14 November] OFF-OFF
Edgewise - [30 July] OFF-OFF
Fifty Words - [2 October] OFF
The Glass Cage - [1 November] OFF
Great Hymn of Thanksgiving/Conversation Storm - [2 March] OFF-OFF
If You See Something, Say Something - [31 October] OFF
The Invitation - [8 September] OFF-OFF
Jollyship the Whiz-Bang - [11 June] OFF-OFF
Liberty City - [24 February] OFF
The Most Damaging Wound - [12 November] OFF-OFF
Palace of the End - [21 June] OFF
Poetics: A Ballet Brut - [11 January] OFF-OFF
The Pumpkin Pie Show - [18 October] OFF-OFF
The Sexual Neuroses of our Parents - [11 November] OFF-OFF
Small Metal Objects - [14 January] OFF-OFF
The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928) - [27 April] OFF
Suspicious Package - [17 June] OFF-OFF
Stretch (a fantasia) - [12 May] OFF-OFF
There Will Come Soft Rains - [17 August] OFF-OFF
[title of show] - [14 July] ON
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind - [N/A] OFF-OFF
The Unconquered - [14 May] OFF-OFF
Welcome to Nowhere (bullet hole road) - [23 February] OFF-OFF
Wintuk - [13 November] ON

Recommended (Four Stars)
The Alice Complex - [12 August] OFF-OFF
Amazons And Their Men - [7 January] OFF-OFF
Artefacts - [25 May] OFF-OFF
As You Like It - [9 August] OFF-OFF
Betrayed - [2 February] OFF
Bouffon Glass Menajoree - [11 July] OFF-OFF
The Boy in the Basement - [10 August] OFF-OFF
Brew of the Dead - [7 October] OFF-OFF
Cape Disappointment - [28 November] OFF-OFF
Cherubina - [16 February] OFF-OFF
Crawl, Fade to White - [16 October] OFF-OFF
Dead Man's Cell Phone - [16 March] OFF
The Drunken City - [19 March] OFF
Etiquette - [19 January] OFF-OFF
Farragut North - [15 November] OFF
Fight Girl Battle World - [13 March] OFF-OFF
The Footage - [14 November] OFF-OFF
From Up Here - [20 April] OFF
Green Eyes - [17 August] OFF-OFF
Hillary: A Modern Greek Tragedy With a (Somewhat) Happy Ending - [25 November] OFF-OFF
The Honest to God True Story of the Atheist - [13 June] OFF-OFF
House - [26 April] OFF-OFF
I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me By a Young Lady from Rwanda - [13 April] OFF-OFF
In Spite of Everything - [12 January] OFF-OFF
Kansas City or Along the Way - [17 August] OFF-OFF
Kindness - [11 October] OFF
Like You Like It - [25 October] OFF-OFF
Man of La Mancha - [8 May] OFF-OFF

The Night of the Iguana - [1 March] OFF-OFF
Noon Day Sun - [18 August] OFF-OFF
The Parent/Teacher Conference Plays - [24 September] OFF-OFF
Particularly in the Heartland - [10 January] OFF-OFF
A Perfect Couple - [18 June] OFF-OFF
The Play About the Naked Guy - [8 February] OFF
Rattlers - [7 November] OFF-OFF
Sand - [9 February] OFF
Sunday in the Park With George - [14 February] ON
The Underpants - [19 September] OFF-OFF
What To Do When You Hate All Your Friends - [21 July] OFF-OFF

Decent (Three Stars)
2.5 Minute Ride - [19 January] OFF-OFF
The 39 Steps - [17 January] ON
Angel Eaters - [3 November] OFF-OFF
The Apocalypse of John, the Rabbit Known as Chicken Little - [27 July] OFF-OFF
B-Alive! - [6 April] OFF-OFF
Beast - [7 September] OFF
Beebo Brinker Chronicles - [1 March] OFF
Blue Before Morning - [20 October] OFF-OFF
Boeing Boeing - [15 July] ON
The Caucasian Chalk Circle - [30 April] OFF-OFF
Cherry Docs - [2 May] OFF-OFF
Church - [11 January] OFF-OFF
Crave/Somewhere in the Pacific - [6 July] OFF
Dance at Bataan - [20 July] OFF-OFF
A Dangerous Personality - [9 June] OFF
Democracy in America - [2 April] OFF-OFF
Diversey Harbor - [2 March] OFF-OFF
Endgame - [11 May] OFF
Eighty-1 - [27 July] OFF-OFF
Elizabeth Rex - [14 August] OFF
EST Marathon: Series A - [19 May] OFF-OFF
EST Marathon: Series B - [2 June] OFF-OFF
Fela! - [19 August] OFF
Frankenstein: Mortal Toys - [8 January] OFF-OFF
Generation Jeans - [13 January] OFF-OFF
Hair - [15 August] OFF
Happy Endings - [26 February] OFF-OFF
In the Heights - [25 March] ON
Heist - [22 June] OFF-OFF
The Hired Man - [8 June] OFF
Hospital 2008 (episode one) - [2 June] OFF-OFF
Improbable Frequency - [13 December] OFF
The King is Dead - [7 August] OFF-OFF
King of Shadows - [7 September] OFF
The Lifeblood - [6 February] OFF-OFF
Mare Cognitum - [13 August] OFF-OFF
Me - [8 May] OFF-OFF
Nightmare: Bad Dreams Come True - [11 October] OFF-OFF
Offending the Audience - [1 February] OFF-OFF
Oh What War - [11 September] OFF-OFF
A Perfect Ganesh - [27 August] OFF-OFF
The Proposal - [24 July] OFF-OFF
Rafta, Rafta [3 May] OFF
Rock 'n' Roll - [28 February] ON
RUS(H) - [29 February] OFF
Summer Shorts: Series A - [3 August] OFF-OFF
Summer Shorts: Series B - [8 August] OFF-OFF
Terminus - [13 January] OFF-OFF
This Place is a Desert - [12 January] OFF-OFF
Tiny Feats of Cowardice - [8 August] OFF-OFF
Untitled Mars (This Title May Change) - [12 April] OFF-OFF
Victory at the Dirt Palace - [21 August] OFF-OFF
Washing Machine - [29 June] OFF-OFF
What's My Line? - [24 March] OFF
Whisper - [11 July] OFF-OFF
Widows - [16 January] OFF-OFF
Wig Out! - [30 September] OFF
Writer's Block - [20 July] OFF-OFF
Yellow Face - [6 January] OFF
Yellow Moon - [24 April] OFF-OFF

Flawed (Two Stars)
8 Little Antichrists - [6 November] OFF-OFF
Adding Machine - [6 March] OFF
The Actor's Nightmare/The Real Inspector Hound - [18 May] OFF-OFF
All Kinds of Shifty Villains - [22 June] OFF-OFF
All The Rage - [31 July] OFF-OFF
Almost an Evening - [29 March] OFF
BASH'd: A Gay Rap Opera - [19 June] OFF
The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac - [17 July] OFF-OFF
Benefactors - [6 June] OFF-OFF
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - [17 January] OFF-OFF
Blink - [25 May] OFF-OFF
A Body of Water - [3 October] OFF
The Break-Up and the Happy Sad - [17 March] OFF-OFF
Cat's Cradle - [24 February] OFF-OFF
Claymont - [8 February] OFF
Colorful World - [15 May] OFF-OFF
The Deciders - [19 August] OFF-OFF
Disinformation - [13 January] OFF-OFF
Eureka! - [5 October] OFF-OFF
The Fall and Rise of the Rising Fallen - [10 January] OFF-OFF
Heistman - [1 August] OFF-OFF
Hello Failure - [10 March] OFF-OFF
Fire Island - [18 April] OFF
The Four of Us - [17 May] OFF
The Gargoyle Garden - [20 August] OFF-OFF
Home - [21 December] OFF
Hunting and Gathering - [27 January] OFF
Made in Poland - [5 November] OFF-OFF
The Main(e) Play - [24 January] OFF-OFF
The Master of Horror - [11 October] OFF-OFF
Monster - [25 April] OFF-OFF
Neal Medlyn's Unpronounceable Symbol - [9 July] OFF-OFF
Nemesis - [4 October] OFF-OFF
Night Maneuver - [28 August] OFF-OFF
North - [19 January] OFF-OFF
November - [3 January] ON
A Number - [10 September] OFF-OFF
Occupant - [24 June] OFF
Perfect Harmony - [10 July] OFF-OFF
Port Authority - [24 May] OFF
Reasons To Be Pretty - [29 May] OFF
The Redheaded Man - [16 August] OFF-OFF
ReWrite - [11 December] OFF
Shrek - [5 December] ON
Slaughterhouse-Five - [21 January] OFF-OFF
Six - [28 March] OFF-OFF
Something Weird . . . In the Red Room - [10 October] OFF-OFF
Something You Did - [22 March] OFF
Thicker than Water 2008 - [9 February] OFF-OFF
TRACES/fades - [16 July] OFF-OFF
Two Rooms - [6 October] OFF-OFF
The Uncanny Appearance of Sherlock Holmes - [4 December] OFF-OFF
Velvet Scratch: Voyage of No Return [9 August] OFF-OFF
Vincent River - [15 June] OFF-OFF
Walls - [16 August] OFF-OFF
Waves of Mu - [12 October] OFF-OFF
When Is A Clock - [23 April] OFF-OFF
Yellow Electras - [18 July] OFF-OFF

Awful (One Star)
The Accidental Patriot - [27 April] OFF-OFF
American Buffalo - [30 October] ON
The American Dream/The Sandbox [27 March] OFF
Apartment 3A - [30 January] OFF-OFF
Babylon, Babylon - [26 April] OFF-OFF
Big Beat/Back Flow - [20 August] OFF-OFF
Daguerrotypes - [27 July] OFF-OFF
Dirt - [9 April] OFF-OFF
Estrogenius Festival: Series A - [1 October] OFF-OFF
The Fifth Column - [23 March] OFF
Jump - [6 January] OFF
Kidstuff - [4 September] OFF-OFF
Killing the Boss - [12 February] OFF-OFF
Low: Meditations Trilogy Part 1 - [12 January] OFF-OFF
Lower Ninth - [27 February] OFF-OFF
The Only Tribe - [3 December] OFF
Our Dad Is in Atlantis - [6 April] OFF-OFF
Out Cry - [2 December] OFF-OFF
Prisoner of the Crown - [18 May] OFF
Refuge of Lies - [18 September] OFF-OFF
Silver Bullet Trailer - [31 March] OFF-OFF
Standing Clear - [16 June] OFF-OFF
Stitching - [29 June] OFF-OFF
To Be Or Not To Be - [14 October] ON
Trojan Women - [20 January] OFF
Vengeance Can Wait - [3 May] OFF-OFF
Year One of the Empire - [3 March] OFF-OFF

Unredeemable (Zero Stars)
3 Sisters - [7 December] OFF-OFF
As We Speak - [10 November] OFF-OFF
Artfuckers - [21 February] OFF-OFF
Barcinda Forest - [18 April] OFF-OFF
Damascus - [11 May] OFF
Do Not Do This Ever Again - [12 July] OFF-OFF
A Light Lunch - [20 December] OFF-OFF
Louder - [27 September] OFF-OFF
Mindgame - [2 November] OFF
Paradise Park - [30 March] OFF
Regurgitophagy - [12 January] OFF-OFF
thirty-seven stones (or the man who was a quarry) - [14 April] OFF-OFF

Workshop/Unrated
A.N.T. Fest - [15 October]
Chekhov Lizardbrain - [19 October]
Crime or Emergency - [11 January]
Don't Fuck With Love - [14 January]
Greendale - [23 July]
Miranda 5x - [9 January]
Of All The People in the World: USA - [14 January]
The Poor Itch - [16 March]
Red Haired Thomas - [6 August]
The Truth About Santa - [6 December]
Uncensored - [1 May]
Water (or, the secret lives of objects) - [9 January]

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