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...taken a frenzied round of calls between Frankfurt, New York, Washington and Ottawa to nab the passengers before they slipped through J.F.K.'s immigration hall. But the list of stolen passports against which they were checked hailed from another place entirely: a modern, five-story building in Lyons, France, which is the global headquarters of Interpol...
...Dead City” by Sheila Callaghan. I am especially intrigued by this one because I will be teaching it this semester, so I have been really getting inside of it lately. It is a revision of “Ulysses” seen through the eyes of a modern-day woman living in Manhattan. It is very expansive, theatrical, and language-oriented...
...Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” is not the play that many studied in high school; it is instead a contemporary piece of political commentary. French director Arthur Nauzyciel’s interpretation departs from more traditional readings of the text and presents a modern visual interpretation that attempts to create something altogether new. In this new production, which will run at the A.R.T. until March 16, Nauzyciel modernizes the fight for democracy and political power in ancient Rome by allowing the audience to connect the themes of this 400-year-old play to issues...
...Così fan Tutte,” which means “women are all alike,” was originally considered highly controversial due to its racy subject matter and was rarely performed for much of its early history. However, this same bawdiness appeals to modern college audiences; the DHO performed “Cosi fan Tutte” as recently as 2004. In keeping with its mission to make opera that is “youthfully innovative,” the DHO decided to set the production in the 1920s and all songs are performed using Andrew Porter?...
...such long-standing fissures that pop up across the continent - many of whose modern nation states folded in diverse kingdoms and peoples - that shape Europe's responses to Kosovo's historic, and potentially precedent-setting, declaration of independence. Europe is divided over whether to recognize the new would-be nation on territory that has until now been recognized as part of sovereign Serbia. These divisions forced the European Union to leave it up to each member state to decide whether to recognize Kosovo's independence...