The View From Avignon’s Bridge
The venerable international festival’s 79th iteration lays out the welcome mat for first-time performers and audiences, and puts its first non-European language, Arabic, in the spotlight.
The venerable international festival’s 79th iteration lays out the welcome mat for first-time performers and audiences, and puts its first non-European language, Arabic, in the spotlight.
Among the usual outsized quantity of productions at this year’s fest was a strong and meaningful showing of work by Middle Eastern artists.
An urgent preoccupation with money for the arts surfaces at Poland’s eclectic Malta Festival.
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