Author: Steven Morris

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Read more about the article French Toast: Antigone and La Mélancolie des Dragons

French Toast: Antigone and La Mélancolie des Dragons

Antigone’s justifications for her beliefs may provide a principled basis for resistance to oppressive authority, against collaboration and for fundamental liberty of conscience, but as applicable as they may have been as a parable for refusal of Nazi tyranny, they uncannily also precisely mirror the heinous positions of a Kim Davis, insisting on the holiness of her sacrifice for the primacy of her own personal beliefs over the dictates of the State. --BY MYRON MEISEL

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Read more about the article Paul Birchall’s Got it Covered: From Visualizing the Invisible, to the Ovations, to Annenberg’s New Leader, and More

Paul Birchall’s Got it Covered: From Visualizing the Invisible, to the Ovations, to Annenberg’s New Leader, and More

The Wallis Annenberg, which certainly must be pleased about the success of Deaf West Theater’s Spring Awakening, as it played there a few months ago in its intermediate phase from 99seat stage to mid-size, has named its first artistic director and his resume sounds really intriguing. American Theatre Magazine reports that the new AD, Paul Crewes, has been the artistic and creative director of Kneehigh Productions in the UK, which produces compelling and imaginative touring productions, some of which have played the Wallis in previous seasons.

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