HALFWAY through the Big Apple Circus show, one tough cus tomer registered his first signs of favor. “Whoa!” 5-year-old Bain Boudreaux exclaimed. The object of his approval? Cats. Standing ...

On a stage watched over by musicians in cat’s heads, Yeats’s fractious childhood is lyrically evoked, and in the refuge of imagination he is paired with a dancer in a kitten head. There is an ...