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It would be a tragedy if Latin America were to return to first another cycle of military involvement in politics or even a return to military rule, followed by another multi-decade effort to get the soldiers back in the barracks.

This month marks the 100-year anniversary of the debut of the German Expressionist silent horror film Nosferatu. The unauthorized and unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula has been regarded as one of the most influential masterpieces of the silent film era.

Only seven and a half months of live performance, but what riches under pressure. Opera Best of Year by David Nice

“Who’s there?” These are the two words that begin Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It is primarily this question, and not “To be or not to be?” with which Hamlet wrestles throughout the play. The two

Multi-Layered Narratives In a 2018 interview with Royal Academy, Tacita Dean (b. 1965) stated that she “didn’t care about the long run, caring only about now.” Dean is a British European artist born in Canterbury, currently living and working between Berlin and Los Angeles (where she was the Artist in Residence at the Getty Research Institute from 2014 to 2015). She is perhaps one of the best-known female artists of her time – a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998, winner o...

pervasive atmosphere of religious-like reconciliation throughout his plays. This recurring theme of reconciliation is part of the unique magic of Shakespeare’s invention of the human. The Comedy of Errors Gray’s Inn Gray’s Inn, one of four London Lawyer’s Inns, known, collectively, as the ‘third university of England’, after Oxford and Cambridge, during the Christmas Revels of 1594. Arriving in London in late 1589, young Will Shakespeare stages his first three highly acclaimed Eng...

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