In the audience were such Dadaists as Marcel Duchamp and Hans Richter, who forty years ago, had staged some bewildering pre-Happening Happenings at European Dada soirees of their own.
Among those three is the mainstream centre-left Dutch Labour party, which was in the doldrums only weeks ago, but has staged a remarkable recovery due to the strong TV performances of its new leader, Diederik Samsom, and is now running neck-and-neck with Rutte's rightwing liberals, the VVD, at the top of the polls and clawing back support from the hard left.
The Nour Party, a puritan Salafist group that gained a quarter of the votes in the general election two years ago, has staged rallies and even released a song, stripped of "un-Islamic" musical accompaniment, in praise of Mr Sisi.
More than 60 years ago, Jean Cocteau had staged the play in French in Paris and transformed it so that characters spoke with the southern accents of Marseille, a production that Williams scorned, saying, "I don't understand why Cocteau filled my work with crudities".
Sunderland looked doomed just a few short weeks ago but have staged a remarkable fightback to put them in contention to avoid the drop.
The Oscar-, Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actress Ellen Burstyn, who made her Broadway debut more than half a century ago, has returned to the stage as Helen Potts in William Inge's "Picnic," playing at Roundabout Theater Company's American Airlines Theater through Feb. 24.
I've never been troubled by the thought that Britain, which overthrew monarchical political power in stages centuries ago, has what amounts to a hereditary version of a ceremonial presidency, living at the west end of the Mall and in other tied palaces.
Jonathan Trott and Graeme Swann, absolute mainstays of the team a year ago have departed the stage.
Tame Impala might seem like a strange choice to perform before Adele but the introspective psychedelic rock group who played the Other Stage three years ago have blossomed into a bright, potent hybrid of soft rock, disco and glam.
That was five years ago, when Hallenga was 23. "I had stage four cancer, there is no stage five.
Then, four years ago at age 54, my sister Nancy was told she had Stage 3 ovarian cancer.
