‘Kurios’

Randalls Island (Through Nov. 27)

AGES 4 and up

WHAT IT’S ABOUT Staged in an old-fashioned big top on Randalls Island, this new Cirque du Soleil extravaganza, subtitled “Cabinet of Curiosities,” takes a steampunk approach to the troupe’s brand of storytelling acrobatics. You’ll get contortionists, aerialists, jugglers and plenty of other circus mainstays — and no scary clowns. After New York, the show heads to Miami, Dallas and Houston. (Cirque’s effort at a more traditional Broadway musical, “Paramour,” is at the Lyric Theater in Manhattan.)

WHAT OUR CRITIC SAID A “varied, exotic and inspired” production that features “a dazzling parade of acrobats and gymnasts, jelly-limbed contortionists, singers warbling in indecipherable tongues and sets that swamp those of most Broadway shows.” [Read the review]