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- ↑ "Actors Theatre of Louisville reprises its world premiere production of THE GLORY OF THE WORLD at New York's BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)". Actors Theatre of Louisville. 2015-12-22. Archived from the original on 2016-08-21. Retrieved 2016-08-15.
- ↑ Mee, Erin B. "Charles Mee's (Re)Making of Greek Drama." In The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas, eds Bosher, Macintosh, McConnell, and Rankin. Oxford University Press, 2015.