This is a revival so rare, it may well be the only professional one of our lives.

A rare revival landed on Broadway in 1996, by way of London.

And no balletomane visiting the French capital this month can afford to miss the rare revivals that make up this two-part bill.

Mycenaean Revival is a rare revival architectural style developed as part of the 20th century neoclassicist architectural revival in Greece.

By then a new season will have begun at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam with a rare revival of "Finian's Rainbow."

Thanks to Ms. Gillis, "The Farewell" has a rare revival, and an extraordinary solo becomes an apt and strong centerpiece for her program.

Nowhere near as stimulating or as profound as it means to be, "Seascape" is having a rare revival at a rare theater.

I saw, for instance, a rare revival of On the Rocks, which Shaw wrote in 1933 when Britain was in the throes of economic crisis.

And Fred Zollo, a producer of "Angels in America," said: "It's one of the rare revivals I'm excited about seeing.

In "Joe Egg," now in a rare revival at Fleetwood Stage here, that paradox works startlingly.