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New to Our Collection! The Playboy of the Western World
Item# 50917
© 2011
128 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-808-7
Performed by the Druid Theatre Company of Galway, this production of The Playboy of the Western World was heralded as possibly the most definitive version of John Millington Synge's masterpiece. The p...
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Bill Moyers Journal: Actress-Playwright Anna Deavere Smith / Poets House
Item# 41298
© 2009
57 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-617-5
While politicians and the media war over aspects of health care reform, award-winning actress-playwright Anna Deavere Smith gives voice to questions of life and death, sickness and medical treatment,...
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Bill Moyers Journal: Actor John Lithgow / Poetry Festival
Item# 40162
© 2009
53 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-537-5
He's played heroes, villains, saints, sinners, a ballet-dancing elephant, and a space alien. In this edition of the Journal, multifaceted actor and children's author John Lithgow joins Bill Moyers to...
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Broadway Goes Hollywood: Musical Comedy in American Cinema
Item# 40694
© 2008
52 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-275-7
Beginning with the release of The Jazz Singer in 1927, this program provides a detailed look inside that most distinctly American of film traditions, the musical comedy. Interviews with dancer Cyd Cha...
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A Raisin in the Sun: Character Studies Conversations
Item# 38813
© 2008
51 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-8639-3
Hosted by Eli Wallach, this program dissects Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun through the sharp insights of Joe Morton (Walter Lee Younger); Kim Yancey (Beneatha Younger); Phylicia Rashad (Len...
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Working with Pinter: A Master Class for the Stage
Item# 39917
© 2007
58 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60467-937-3
Viewed by many as the preeminent dramatist of our time, Nobel laureate Harold Pinter was also an accomplished actor, steeped in the relationship between text and performance. In this program, produced...
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The Glass Menagerie: Character Studies Conversations
Item# 37648
© 2007
55 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-8279-1
Tennessee Williams' masterpiece The Glass Menagerie is a prime example of the memory play in modern literature. In this program hosted by Eli Wallach, former cast members and directors of Menagerie di...
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Our Town: Character Studies Conversations
Item# 37235
© 2007
68 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-6667-8
In Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, the time is 1901 and the place is America's collective memory. But Thornton Wilder's Our Town is not the sentimental nostalgia piece most people perceive. This prog...
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Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film
Item# 40939
© 2006
90 Min.
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Presenting the haunting story of America’s first Nobel Prize–winning playwright, this episode of American Experience details the harrowing family dramas and personal upheavals that shaped Eugene O’Nei...
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ShakespeaRe-Told: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Item# 41154
© 2005
86 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-610-6
Theo and Polly host a party in Dream Park to celebrate their daughter Hermia’s engagement to James, but when Xander, Hermia’s true love, shows up to dispute the betrothal, it takes magical interventio...
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