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Advocacy Group Says a Medicare Rule Change Delayed Price Negotiation for a Costly AbbVie Drug by Seven Years

Public Citizen says a CMS eligibility change kept AbbVie's Creon out of Medicare price negotiation for seven extra years. Here is how it works.

Medical Daily

‘It really bores me’: Wayne McGregor on why he won’t spell out his striking dance creations

The choreographer has paired the tragedies of Oedipus Rex and Antigone in a monumental double bill, Jocasta’s Line, which refuses to spoon-feed audiences

The Guardian - UK

The Other Place at the National Theatre review: Emma D’Arcy is riveting in this elegant, atmospheric take on Greek tragedy

The House of the Dragon star is part of a crack ensemble who all shine in this modern update of Sophocles’ Antigone

Evening Standard

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A hero's body: Greek tragedy and Navalny

How Sophocles' wrenching tragedy "Antigone," written 2,500 years ago, prefigured the aftermath of Navalny's death

Salon

What Greek mythology teaches us about women’s resistance and rebellion

After some hard-fought victories, women’s rights are threatened again in many parts of the world. In the United States, the Supreme Court overturned women’s right to abortion in June 2022; women have also been leaving the workforce since the COVID-19 pandemic, in many cases to care for children and elderly…

The Conversation

Medea in mid-air: how Syracuse’s Greek theatre keeps the classics alive

Playing in the vast ancient amphitheatre, imaginative new productions of Euripides and Aeschylus find fresh nuance even in this huge space

The Guardian - UK

Medea at @sohoplace review: a blazing Sophie Okonedo makes this spartan production a must-see

Dominic Cooke’s staging of the Greek tragedy is gripping

Evening Standard

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Medea review – Sophie Okonedo is magnificent as ancient Greece’s preeminent rebel woman

Medea is as much victim as villain in Dominic Cooke’s psychologically subtle and subversive production, and Ben Daniels is superb playing all the puffed up men in her life

The Guardian - UK

Friendship, humanity are put to the test amid the most horrific of circumstances in ‘The Island’

Brotherhood, tyranny, unjust incarceration, revolution — there’s much to unpack thematically in “The Island,” but director Gabrielle Randle-Bent propels the dialogue with a clarity that shines like a knife and an urgency that can’t be denied.

Chicago Sun-Times

Antigone review – a poetic tragedy about modern British Muslim life

Inua Ellams updates the Sophoclean drama into a beguiling piece about faith and prejudice, and casts a suspicious eye at politicians who betray their own communities

The Guardian - UK

Cassidy Hutchinson and Greek tragedy show that courage is rare and cowardice more common

Ever since former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s remarkable testimony in the recent January 6 committee hearing, I’ve been thinking – as I’m sure many people have – about courage. Seeking analogies in literature, I think of two women from Greek mythology: Antigone and Iphigenia.

The Conversation

Antigone review – an explosive hour of fireworks

The music and visual effects dazzle in this 2018 update of Sophocles’ tragedy from the Classical Theatre of Harlem

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