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Kurt has some bad luck attending some recent performances.

From Denver, a provocative glimpse of Sir Peter Hall’s 10-hour version of the story of the Trojan War.

Playwright Albert Innaurato explores the mythic resonance in Wagner’s Ring Cycle and in the music of the contemporary German metal band Ramstein.

Novelist Tom Dyja visits a Civil War re-enactment to find out why civilians dress up in heavy woolen uniforms and stage elaborate battle scenes.

Producer Sara Fishko travels from Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum to Sesame Street, stopping along the way to talk with a pianist who re-creates Gershwin’s performances, and an artist who paints his own version of Chagalls and Rembrandts.