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New! The Singing City: Mounting Parsifal at the Stuttgart Opera
Item# 52830
© 2012
52 Min.
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Filmed with rare behind-the-scenes access at Germany's renowned Stuttgart State Opera, this program uses director Calixto Bieito's staging of Wagner's Parsifal to explore the dazzling and complex univ...
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Richard III: An Arab Tragedy Tours the World Stage
Item# 50412
© 2012
58 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-476-8
Cofounder of London’s Zaoum Theatre Company and its Arabic-world counterpart, SABAB Theatre, Kuwaiti-born director Sulayman Al Bassam uses his stage productions to explore contemporary issues of ident...
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Street Journeys: Using Theater to Transform the Lives of At-Risk Youth
Item# 52594
© 2012
57 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-423-2
Shangilia Mtoto wa Afrika (Rejoice Child of Africa) is an orphanage in Nairobi that uses performing arts as a tool to improve the lives of street children—and, in the process, change the negative ster...
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New to Our Collection! The Playboy of the Western World
Item# 50917
© 2011
128 Min.
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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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New to Our Collection! All's Well That Ends Well: Live from Shakespeare's Globe
Item# 50577
© 2011
138 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-537-6
Helena loves the arrogant Bertram, and when she cures the king of France of a deadly illness, she claims Bertram as her reward. But her brand-new husband attaches two obstructive conditions to their m...
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New to Our Collection! Much Ado About Nothing: Live from Shakespeare's Globe
Item# 50578
© 2011
166 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-538-3
Claudio loves Hero and Hero Claudio, and nothing seems capable of tearing them apart. Claudio’s friend Benedick loves Beatrice and vice versa, but since neither of them will admit to such depth of fee...
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Frantic Assembly: A Guide to Devising
Item# 49817
© 2011
24 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-453-9
U.K. theater company Frantic Assembly has emerged as one of the boldest and brightest stars in the international drama firmament. Building shows from the ground up-called devising, a form of improvisa...
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Theater in the Modern World
Item# 49819
© 2011
21 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-455-3
Not long after the start of the 20th century, playwrights, influenced by the horrors of two world wars, began to experiment with theater in a way which depicted many long-held historical, social, and...
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Theater Practitioners: Steven Berkoff
Item# 49818
© 2011
18 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-454-6
Featuring an exclusive interview with the man himself, this program investigates writer/director/actor Steven Berkoff (Octopussy, Beverly Hills Cop, War and Remembrance) and the inspiration for his in...
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Henry IV, Part 1: Live from Shakespeare's Globe
Item# 47572
© 2011
167 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-385-2
King Henry IV has deposed Richard II to claim the throne of England but feels deeply troubled by his actions. Is God punishing Henry for Richard’s murder by giving him Hal—who spends drunken evenings...
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