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- ↑ "Things to do: Los Angeles Daily News".
- ↑ "Villa Play-Reading Series (Getty Museum Programs)".
- ↑ "Troubadour Theater Company’s Oedipus the King, Mama" and Chekhov’s "The Seagull Mama’s boys", LA Weekly, Steven Leigh Morris, August 27, 2009