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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.

Terms of Estrangement
Jon Courie’s play about a family dealing with cancer is sympathetic but undercooked.

Turnaround Specialist Talks of City Opera Plans
Even before the full board of New York City Opera learned that its proposed savior, Gerard Mortier, was saying goodbye, its chairwoman had turned to a man known in the arts as a turnaround specialist.

Proudly Strutting, Defying Hostile Universe
Chita Rivera, 75, is the most commanding physical presence ever to grace the tiny platform stage of Feinstein’s

Arts, Briefly: New Space for the Arts
The Baryshnikov Arts Center and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s have completed the purchase of three theaters below the three floors that the center already owns at 450 West 37th Street in Manhattan. ...

New York Times ArtsBeat Blog

'Impressionism,' With Irons and Allen, Finds a Theater
Michael Jacobs's new play, "Impressionism," in which Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen star as a photojournalist and a New York gallery owner, will be coming to Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theater.

New York Daily News The Cultural Tourist Blog

Clive Barnes
I remember precisely when I first became aware of Clive Barnes. ...

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'American Buffalo' to Close on Sunday

New York Post Critic Clive Barnes Dies at 81

New York Post

As ever, a gentleman
Clive Barnes, 1927 - 2008

Steroids scandal play strikes out
A program note for "Back Back Back" coyly informs us that it "does not depict any actual person, incident or event."...

Heavenly trip to hell
Martha Clarke has worked on many theatrical productions since her "Garden of Earthly Delights" premiered in 1984, but few have...

Liz Smith: Queens on the bus go 'round
The successor to that moneymaking hit "Mamma Mia!" may well be the stage musical of the cult movie "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," set to bow in London's West End in March. (And once something is a hit there, it's usually bound for Broadway.)

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NY1 Theater Review: "Farragut North"

Drama Critic Clive Barnes Dies At 81

Time Out New York

Exit stage right
Scott Eckern and Christine Ebersole test the tolerance of the theater.

Builders Association
Multimedia wizard Marianne Weems knows the medium is the message.

Hot Seat: Elton John
In the stage version of Billy Elliot , the story of striking miners is as important as the unlikely...

Gift Guide for Theater

Review: American Buffalo
David Mamet's petty-crooks drama from 1976 is loads of profane fun, despite unfortunate casting.

Review: Road Show
Fans of Stephen Sondheim, brace yourselves: The latest is just not up to the master's high standards.

Review: Shogun Macbeth
Sick of Shakespeare done traditionally? Want some exotic high concept? Be careful what you wish for.

Review: Farragut North
For political junkies enduring postelection withdrawal, this twisty campaign drama is theatrical methadone.

Review: Back Back Back
Itamar Moses hits a home run with this engrossing tale of ball players, steroids and team spirit.

Review: Dawn
Thomas Bradshaw exposes the emotional fallout from a raging alcholic.

Time Out New York Blog

Clive Barnes, 1927–2008

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Brook No Evil
‘The Grand Inquisitor’ as dramatic Q&A

Hartford Courant

Rizzo: A Revival For National Theatre Of Deaf
The National Theatre of the Deaf is back — though it never really left.

Clive Barnes, longtime theater, dance critic, dies at 81

New Haven Advocate

Lincoln Yule Logs
The Long Wharf offers abolition instead of Scrooge with its new Paula Vogel holiday heartwarmer.

Valley Advocate

Wow! That Isn't Bizarre
Springfield's downtown theaters keep to the middle of the road.

Star-Ledger

'Cats' glitters at NJPAC, so fans should pounce

Bergen Record

Fun and ideas float through the air
'BubbleMania'

Albany Times-Union

'Gatz' turns novel into theater
'Gatz' brings classic 'Great Gatsby' onstage in innovative ways

'Legally Blonde: The Musical' coming to Proctors
'Legally Blonde' leaps from Hollywood to Broadway and now Schenectady