the "critic meter" on the NY Times website

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Posted: 12/2/11 at 12:47pm

MOOD
LIGHT DARK
AUDIENCE
CHILDREN ADULTS
STYLE
TRADITIONAL EXPERIMENTAL
Results:
La Casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba)
Review
Avenue Q

tried to copy and paste above but the formatting didn't carry over i don't think...it's very interesting, it's a device with a sliding bar for MOOD (light to dark) AUDIENCE (Children to Adults) and STYLE (traditional to experimental). For fun i set it on the darkest, most adult, most experimental range (slid the cyber rheostat to the right as far as it should go, when in actuality it should probably be to the left with more conservative/traditional stuff to the right). The results? the NY Times "critics" suggested that in the Big Apple right now the darkest, most adult, most experimental theatre work is:

HOUSE OF BERNANDO ALBA (which i bet has a great production right now, but was written in 1945)
AVENUE Q (not what i'd call "avant-garde" anymore either, though i love it)

Discuss amongst yourselves.