Kultura

Jon Courie’s play about a family dealing with cancer is sympathetic but undercooked.br/br/span class=”advertisement” a href=”http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=fbe6052dbaf14a4e9846f8e0684e279bu=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/theater/reviews/20cara.html”img src=”http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=fbe6052dbaf14a4e9846f8e0684e279bu=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/theater/reviews/20cara.html” border=”0″//a

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“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.br/br/span class=”advertisement” a href=”http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=fbe6052dbaf14a4e9846f8e0684e279bu=http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/theater/reviews/20gard.html”img src=”http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=fbe6052dbaf14a4e9846f8e0684e279bu=http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/theater/reviews/20gard.html” border=”0″//a

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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.br/br/span class=”advertisement” a href=”http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=fbe6052dbaf14a4e9846f8e0684e279bu=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/arts/dance/20barnes.html”img src=”http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=fbe6052dbaf14a4e9846f8e0684e279bu=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/arts/dance/20barnes.html” border=”0″//a

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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.br/br/span class=”advertisement” a href=”http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=fbe6052dbaf14a4e9846f8e0684e279bu=http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/theater/reviews/19road.html”img src=”http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=fbe6052dbaf14a4e9846f8e0684e279bu=http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/theater/reviews/19road.html” border=”0″//a

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“Back Back Back,” a new play by Itamar Moses about baseball’s steroids scandal, could actually use a little juicing itself.br/br/span class=”advertisement” a href=”http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=fbe6052dbaf14a4e9846f8e0684e279bu=http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/theater/reviews/19back.html”img src=”http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=fbe6052dbaf14a4e9846f8e0684e279bu=http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/theater/reviews/19back.html” border=”0″//a

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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.br/br/span class=”advertisement” a href=”http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=fbe6052dbaf14a4e9846f8e0684e279bu=http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/theater/reviews/19lill.html”img src=”http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=fbe6052dbaf14a4e9846f8e0684e279bu=http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/theater/reviews/19lill.html” border=”0″//a

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Directed and choreographed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, this show is based on the life of the tap dancer Jack Donahue.br/br/span class=”advertisement” a href=”http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=fbe6052dbaf14a4e9846f8e0684e279bu=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/theater/reviews/19vaud.html”img src=”http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=fbe6052dbaf14a4e9846f8e0684e279bu=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/theater/reviews/19vaud.html” border=”0″//a

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With its highly skilled clowning, mime, acrobatics and contortion, “Birdhouse Factory” provides a refreshing reinterpretation of traditional circus.br/br/span class=”advertisement” a href=”http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=fbe6052dbaf14a4e9846f8e0684e279bu=http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/theater/reviews/19cirq.html”img src=”http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=fbe6052dbaf14a4e9846f8e0684e279bu=http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/theater/reviews/19cirq.html” border=”0″//a

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Those in the industry wonder not only about empty theaters, but also about the effect on the stream of creative work.br/br/span class=”advertisement” a href=”http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=fbe6052dbaf14a4e9846f8e0684e279bu=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/theater/19bway.html”img src=”http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=fbe6052dbaf14a4e9846f8e0684e279bu=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/theater/19bway.html” border=”0″//a

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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.br/br/span class=”advertisement” a href=”http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=fbe6052dbaf14a4e9846f8e0684e279bu=http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/theater/reviews/18buff.html”img src=”http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=fbe6052dbaf14a4e9846f8e0684e279bu=http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/theater/reviews/18buff.html” border=”0″//a

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