“Western-style ‘speaking theater,’ as it is known here, isn’t indigenous to China, where opera and other forms have long dominated the theater scene. But that is now changing. Festivals, like the one in Chengdu, are part of a national drive to bring a new kind of theater to smaller cities in China.”
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Turkey’s Trailblazing Female Artists – Of The Ottoman Era
“‘Dream and Reality,’ a show at the Istanbul Modern art museum, pairs ‘nearly forgotten’ painters from the Ottoman era with some of the most intriguing artists in Turkey today. The common thread? All are women.”