It’s Not So Much That “Theater Is Dead” as “Theater Is Fucking Retarded”
Just as a tiny car at the circus might let out a seemingly endless succession of oversize shoes and red noses, New York’s out-of-the-way theater scene seems to be overflowing with clowns.
(New York Times)
It’s not like I’m a genius or something, but I did my best to rewrite this sentence in plainer English because it was confusing to me at first, and here is what I came up with:
Just as a clown car is full of clowns, New York’s out-of-the-way theater scene is also full of clowns.
Meanwhile: gross.