There were whispers he wouldn't appear at all.

In a scheduling mishap, his Oct. 1 Stanford appearance overlapped with the opening night of his production of Madama Butterfly at the Los Angeles Opera. But Robert Wilson—considered by many to be the foremost living director and stage designer—kept his deal with Stanford.

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Passages of Martin Luther King, a play written by history Professor Clayborne Carson, had a groundbreaking five-night run in Beijing.

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