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Theater Review | ‘Carapace Isle’: Terms of Estrangement

Jon Courie?s play about a family dealing with cancer is sympathetic but undercooked.

Theater Review: From a Famous Painting, a Jolting Spectacle of Flesh

?Garden of Earthly Delights? is without doubt one of the most eerily hypnotic spectacles of flesh in motion ever put on a New York stage.

Theater Review: Brothers in Flimflammery on a Continental Sojourn

It?s raining greenbacks in ?Road Show,? the latest version of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman?s long-aborning, ever-evolving and eternally slender musical about curdled American dreams.

Clive Barnes, Critic, Dies at 81

As a critic in Britain and later for The New York Times, Mr. Barnes helped bring dance to a broad audience with an exuberant style.

Tragedy Tomorrow, Economic Woes Tonight

Those in the industry wonder not only about empty theaters, but also about the effect on the stream of creative work.

Theater Review: Peanuts, Cracker Jack and Some Illegal Juice

?Back Back Back,? a new play by Itamar Moses about baseball?s steroids scandal, could actually use a little juicing itself.

Theater Review | ‘Lillian Yuralia’: Healing Hearts: One Crotchety, Two Confused

Barbara Eda-Young?s authorial restraint, and taut direction by Austin Pendleton keeps a story about a family on the Lower East Side touching but never saccharine.

Theater Review | ‘My Vaudeville Man!’: Back When Vaudeville Was King, and Tapping Could Aspire to Royalty

Directed and choreographed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, this show is based on the life of the tap dancer Jack Donahue.

Circus Review | ‘Birdhouse Factory’: Unhappy Workers Show the Tricks of the Trade

With its highly skilled clowning, mime, acrobatics and contortion, ?Birdhouse Factory? provides a refreshing reinterpretation of traditional circus.

Theater Review | ‘American Buffalo’: A Junk Shop Breeding Best-Laid Plans

Robert Falls?s deflated revival of David Mamet?s ?American Buffalo? evokes the woeful image of a sports car?s flat tire, built for speed but going nowhere.