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An alienation clause, also known as a due-on-sale clause, is a standard provision in most mortgage agreements. It requires the borrower to repay the full loan balance if the property is sold or ...

With Europe in ruins in 1945, Bertolt Brecht wrote that war “has been discredited for some time to come.” That period seems to be meeting its end, as European states push a new era of rearmament.

When the World Health Organization resolved in 1988 to eradicate polio, a deadly infection that paralyses its victims, it did not set an exact deadline. For obvious reasons. There are certain problems ...

If the poster were anything to go by, Baal was to be an earnest, wrenching and dark drama of sunken sockets and deep grimaces. Weary of exactly such grand concepts and heavy emotions, the young Brecht ...

The University of Oklahoma will present the only U.S. staging this season of “The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.” The production is set to go up from March 6 – 9, 2025 at the Reynolds ...

Somewhere in 17th century Sweden, in a county untouched by the conflict dividing Europe, two army recruiters are taken aback. Much to their frustration, the locals are hesitant to exchange their ...

‘The ultimate message is that democracy is as good a system as the people who comprise it.’ Photo: Supplied. A ‘McGuffin’, as enthusiasts of Alfred Hitchcock can tell you, is a plot device that relies ...

ANNIE LUIS, first Filipino graduate of the Peking Opera Performance program of the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts Annie Luis is the first Filipino graduate of the Peking Opera Performance ...

The mechanic, Federzoni (Asa Woo; left), takes a look at the cosmos through Galileo's (Katherine Budinger; right) amplified adaptation of the telescope. The play tells the story of Galileo Galilei’s ...