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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 | 'Carapace Isle': Terms of Estrangement Jon Courie?s play about a family dealing with cancer is sympathetic but undercooked. 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: 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. 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. Theater Review | 'The Most Damaging Wound': Post-Yearbook Snapshots: Buddies at a Bar, Catching Up Blair Singer?s artful comic drama ?The Most Damaging Wound,? at the Manhattan Theater Source, confirms what many women have long feared: that male bonding is all about grown men behaving like little boys. Theater Listings Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times. Theater Review | 'Dawn': Dad Drinks, and His Son Has Demons of His Own With ?Dawn,? a tale of alcoholism and incest, Thomas Bradshaw is to some extent a victim of his own notoriety. Arts, Briefly: Kathleen Turner Is Cast Off Broadway Ms. Turner has joined the cast of the Off Broadway play ?The Third Story? by Charles Busch. Theater Review | 'Waves': Six Lives Ebb and Flow, Interconnected and Alone ?Waves,? a remarkable, genre-defying multimedia translation of ?The Waves,? Virginia Woolf?s most challenging novel, raises the bar for literary adaptations. Theater Review | 'La Vida Es Sueño': The Man Who Would Be King (or Monster) Repertorio Español is presenting Pedro Calderón de la Barca?s classic 17th-century drama ?La Vida Es Sueño,? or ?Life Is a Dream,? at the Gramercy Arts Theater. Wallace Shawn on ?Gossip Girl?? It?s Not Inconceivable The protean Wallace Shawn, an actor, playwright and emissary from the New York intelligentsia, has a recurring role on the prime-time CW soap opera. Arts, Briefly: In the Wings The Target Margin Theater will present ?Ten Blocks on the Camino Real? from Jan. 14-31 at the Ohio Theater in SoHo. Theater: Online, Onstage: Interfacing With the World Modern technology is both the subject of ?Continuous City? and an integral part of the way it tells its story. Assault on the Gentrifiers, and the Audience In his new show, ?Taking Over,? Danny Hoch addresses a subject bound to make some New Yorkers more than a little uncomfortable.