Show Score - question about critic ratings

[meredithchandler73]

Posted: 4/21/19 at 5:05pm

I understand Show Score to be a sort of Rotten Tomatoes for theater. Online users can write their own reviews and give shows a rating out of 100. How do they calculate the numerical scores from critics? I feel like I've read a few reviews linked on Show Score and I wouldn't necessarily agree with the numerical rating that's been assigned.

Just wondering. Thanks.

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 4/22/19 at 5:35pm

From my understanding, I think they just have a team that reads reviews and assigns a score to them, so it's relatively subjective.

[Miles2Go2]

Posted: 4/29/19 at 12:27pm

NEW REVIEWS FROM CRITICS YOU ARE FOLLOWING 
Click on the shows to read their reviews.

Ben Brantley of The New York Times gave Grief Is The Thing With Feathers a ShowScore of 85. Details

Ben Brantley of The New York Times gave Beetlejuice (Broadway) a ShowScore of 45. Details

Ben Brantley of The New York Times gave Ink a ShowScore of 85. Details

Ben Brantley of The New York Times gave The Pain of My Belligerence a ShowScore of 65. Details

Charles Isherwood of Broadway News gave Beetlejuice (Broadway) a ShowScore of 70. Details

Charles Isherwood of Broadway News gave Ink a ShowScore of 85. Details

Charles Isherwood of Broadway News gave Tootsie (NYC) a ShowScore of 85. Details

Wow, that Brantley score for Beetlejuice. 

[VintageSnarker]

Posted: 4/29/19 at 6:48pm

chrishuyen said: "From my understanding, I think they just have a team that reads reviews and assigns a score to them, so it's relatively subjective."

Yes, it's this.