Back in 1993, avant-garde director Robert Lepage conferred world-class status on the Canadian Opera Company with his double-bill of “Bluebeard’s Castle” and “Erwartung.” That production toured to New ...

Aesop's The Lion and the Boar. Source: J van Kessel/Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Fables, cartoons, and viral videos often favor animal over human protagonists. Here’s why. A fable is a short tale ...