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- ↑ Sydney Goldstein
- ↑ City Arts & Lectures Radio Broadcasts, retrieved Jan. 28, 2013.
- ↑ "Au Revoir Herbst, Bienvenu Nourse" . Retrieved 4 April 2013.
- ↑ "About the Sydney Goldstein Theater | City Arts & Lectures".
