Far from being under the control of antibiotics and other modern medicines, TB is now staging a frightening comeback.
This is because Arts Centre Melbourne, the city's main cultural venue, is now staging a lavish production of Richard Wagner's four-opera Ring Cycle, which began on November 18th.
English Touring Opera is now staging Teseo with a 17th-century setting in the English civil war, when fear of witches was still very much alive.
"But Monty Python made that sketch after 20 years of tawdry revivals," says Bankes-Jones, whose Tête à Tête company is now staging the show at London's Riverside Studios.
The company is now staging more productions - but is giving them shorter runs and doing more co-productions.
Hwang is now staging a comeback in animal cloning the field he started out in before his fall from grace.
The Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin is now staging his largest solo exhibition to date.
The original 2005 Broadway production, directed by Mike Nichols, won three Tony Awards, and versions of Spamalot are now staged in countries as diverse as Hungary, Japan and Mexico.
Festivals, run the the organisers of Hay, are now staged in exotic locations such as India, the Maldives and Mexico.
Following the Châtelet's success, several other theatres in Paris are now staging musicals.
