Well, you snooze you lose, I suppose. Not that the game is over, but apparently critic/editor Rob Kendt and writer/director Isaac Butler thought it’d be a cool idea to have a “Rotten Tomatoes site for theatre reviews”. (Really? What a friggin’ concept!) And so they have created “Critic-O-Meter”. Hat tip to Adam Szymkowicz.

Okay, first off…I THOUGHT OF IT FIRST! Actually I think it was sort of a shared idea forged on Big Cheap Theatre…BUT I RAN WITH IT FIRST…or am trying to run with it…or…well “limp” with it…

But that’s fine. Really. It’s fine. I’m okay with it.

Second off, awful name. Critic-O-Meter? C’mon guys! Isn’t one of you fellows a writer?

And thirdly, there’s really plenty of room for this sort of thing for all cities. I suppose. And kudos to them for figuring out a system and implementing it. Without a dedicated search engine (someone please help me!) it takes a tremendous amount of time and energy to gather all the reviews from all the sources to make the system work. However, it appears that they – at least for now – are focusing exclusively on NY Theatre. So that still gives me a little breathing room, as I’m trying to focus exclusively on LA Theatre.

But, oh well, I’m pretty much a one man show just trying to serve the LA Theatre Community. Sigh. I’ll keep plugging along and see what happens.

But congrats to Rob and Isaac for having a go at it. I with them luck!