This rarely-staged late Shakespearean romance gets a bold, vivid production from Jennifer Tang that matches its hectic mix of comedy, horror and absurdity. King Cymbeline here becomes a Queen ...

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When Alessandro Michele was growing up in Rome in the 1970s, one of his favorite pastimes was to rummage through his mother’s closet and to run his hands over the rustling taffeta, glinting sequins, ...

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Mussolini saw himself as the modern reviver of Imperial Rome, and his regime as a contemporary ... the censorship of standard scholarship, and the elevation of ‘mythistorical’ textbooks.

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