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On recent performances at Lincoln Center, the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, the Met & the Park Avenue Armory.

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On recent London performances of Euripides’ Bacchae & Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea.

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by Warren Frye

On Richard the Lionheart: In Life and in Legend, by Heather Blurton.

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by Karen Wilkin

On “A Family of Rooms: Vincent Barré,” at Le Centre d’art contemporain d’intérêt national–Les Tanneries, Amilly, France.

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by Max Sligh

On The Secret Sacred: Mystery Cults in Ancient Greece and Rome, by Damien Stone.

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