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Audiences have always approached the arts generally, and the theatre specifically, to have their own moral schemes vindicated. For that matter, orthodox Catholic and Marxist critics think that's what the arts are for. But from the Dionysia to the Comedie audiences have been second-guessed...

Author: By Timothy S. Mayer, | Title: The Cult of Social Theater | 6/15/1967 | See Source »

...Harris, Spyros decided to stop off at a Greek wedding in Philadelphia and do a few other errands. Before they reached Mamaroneck some 16 hours later they had driven and flown 1,000 miles. Intensely proud of anything Greek, Spyros has named his five children Daphne, 21, Diana, 18, Dionysia, 17, Spyros Jr., 19, and Plato...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Hands Across the Sea | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...Agamemnon" was first presented at the theatre of Dionysus at Athens at the time of the Greater Dionysia in 458 B.C. A few duplicate tickets, to be kept as souvenirs, will be issued in the form of the tickets used at the performance at Athens. Professor W. W. Goodwin is preparing a prose translation for the libretto. The details of the stage building have not been definitely settled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREEK PLAY IN STADIUM | 12/9/1905 | See Source »

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