RIO DE JANEIRO - Augusto Boal, the Brazilian theater director and playwright known for the interactive genre called the "Theater of the Oppressed," died Saturday. He was 78.

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• THE NEW PLACE is a theatrical entity based in St. Paul, Minnesota. It got its start in 1989 in Bismarck, North Dakota producing the world premiere of Senses and Sorrows for the state centennial. It has gone on to produce Minneapolis dinner theater and mounted the award-winning Midwest Area Premiere of Timothy Findley's Elizabeth Rex. The New Place is currently branching out into web-based projects and is always on the lookout for new proposals.