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It’s a Friday night and a frisson of anticipation ripples through the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall. A bumper crowd has turned out to witness the endurance test that is about to unfold for the ...

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The Instituto Cultural Mexicano de Laredo will present the 2025 Nuestras Raíces Award to Francisco “Pancho” Ochoa during ...

The lush, dramatic and erotic score, awash in its multiple orgasms, builds to a hysterical, disgusting climax in which Salome dementedly kisses the mouth of Jochanaan’s decapitated head. The play was ...

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