The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?--This constituted the most exhilarating, thought- provoking evening of theater I’ve experienced in many a moon. It was densely packed with ideas and issues, yet so gracefully constructed that it was also plenty loose and often-hilarious, and I thought about it almost hourly for days afterward. Not bad for a play partly about bestiality.

I absolutely loved “Memento,” Christopher Nolan’s time-warped thriller that bristled with supremely inventive filmmaking--an unusual tale (an oddly-amnesiac man hunts for a killer) told in an unusual way: backwards.