The PBS NewsHour is expanding its family, adding a "PBS NewsHour Weekend" newscast on Saturdays and Sundays. The 30-minute show will be anchored by NewsHour senior correspondent Hari Sreenivasan. Check your local listings.
VIDEO: Watch the Trailer for GREAT PERFORMANCES: CHICAGO VOICES Hosted by Renée Fleming on PBS
by Stage Tube - August 07, 2018
A star-studded array of vocal talent with deep ties to Chicago gathers on stage at Lyric Opera to pay tribute to the city's wide-reaching influence across blues, jazz, rock, folk, hip-hop, gospel, opera and classical music in Great Performances: Chicago Voices, premiering nationwide Friday, August 1...
TREASURES OF NEW YORK: The Juilliard School Takes Viewers Inside The Prestigious Performing Arts Conservatory
by A.A. Cristi - June 22, 2018
Treasures of New York: The Juilliard School explores the rich history and legacy of the world's most prestigious performing arts conservatory, often referred to as simply Juilliard, from its creation to its move to Lincoln Center. ...
The Cleveland Orchestra And Ideastream Partner With Great Performances On New National Co-Production
by Stephi Wild - June 20, 2018
On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at Severance Hall, America's preeminent performing arts television series Great Performances in association with ideastream will record The Cleveland Orchestra's 100th Anniversary Gala Concert for an exclusive U.S. television broadcast on PBS slated for 2019. The broa...
TED WILLIAMS: THE GREATEST HITTER WHO EVER LIVED, Narrated by Jon Hamm, to Debut on PBS July 23
by Macon Prickett - June 07, 2018
During his remarkable career with the Boston Red Sox, Ted Williams earned many nicknames - The Kid, The Splendid Splinter and Teddy Ballgame, but the only nickname that he wanted was “the greatest hitter who ever lived.” In that pursuit, he combined his preternatural gifts with a fierce work eth...
GREAT PERFORMANCES ELLIS ISLAND: The Dream of America with Pacific Symphony Premieres Friday, June 29 on PBS
by Macon Prickett - May 31, 2018
THIRTEEN's Great Performances and Pacific Symphony, led by music director Carl St.Clair, pay tribute to America's history with a performance of composer Peter Boyer's “Ellis Island: The Dream of America,” a Grammy-nominated contemporary classical work celebrating the historic American immigran...
PBS Honors Louisa May Alcott with 'The Woman Behind 'Little Women' Encore
by Tori Hartshorn - May 10, 2018
A special encore broadcast of American Masters -- Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women' airs nationwide Sunday, May 20 at 10 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) and will be available to stream the following day on pbs.org/americanmasters and PBS apps. This special encore broadcast ...
CNN and PBS Launch New Late-Night Public Affairs Series AMANPOUR & COMPANY July 2018
by Macon Prickett - May 09, 2018
Yesterday, at the PBS Annual Meeting with public television stations, PBS and WNET announced that in collaboration with CNN, the new one-hour late-night public affairs series, Amanpour & Company, will launch in July on PBS (check local listings). The new series will feature wide-ranging, in-depth co...
PBS' GREAT PERFORMANCES to Continue May 20 with Puccini's LA BOHEME Starring Michael Fabiano and Sonya Yoncheva
by Macon Prickett - May 02, 2018
Season 12 of Great Performances at the Met continues Sunday, May 20 on PBS (check local listings) with one of the world's most popular operas, Puccini's La Bohème, starring Sonya Yoncheva as the fragile Mimì and Michael Fabiano as the poet Rodolfo....
PBS First-Ever Broadcast of Movies for Grownups Awards with AARP the Magazine 2/23
by Tori Hartshorn - February 12, 2018
PBS First-Ever Broadcast of Movies for Grownups Awards with AARP the Magazine...
PIONEERS: REGINALD F. LEWIS AND THE MAKING OF A BILLION DOLLAR EMPIRE Premieres 2/16
by Tori Hartshorn - February 09, 2018
PIONEERS: REGINALD F. LEWIS AND THE MAKING OF A BILLION DOLLAR EMPIRE Premieres 2/16...
PBS's SECRETS OF THE DEAD: SCANNING THE PYRAMIDS Reveals Historic New Discoveries, Today
by BWW News Desk - January 24, 2018
New documentary premieres Today, January 24 at 10 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). Streams January 25 via pbs.org/secrets and PBS apps....
Great Performances At The Met Kicks Off 2018 With Bellini's NORMA
by Stephi Wild - January 09, 2018
Season 12 of Great Performances at the Met begins with a new production of Bellini's masterpiece about a woman scorned, conducted by Carlo Rizzi. Norma stars Sondra Radvanovsky as the titular druid high priestess, opposite Joyce DiDonato as Norma's new rival and Joseph Calleja as her unfaithful love...
NYC-ARTS to Visit Brooklyn Cultural Destinations In January
by A.A. Cristi - January 03, 2018
NYC-ARTS, THIRTEEN's weekly arts and culture multi-platform showcase, brings arts lovers an all-access pass to the interesting, unusual and unique cultural offerings of the greater New York City region. New York's five boroughs and the surrounding region offer some of the most renowned cultural inst...
PBS's SECRETS OF THE DEAD: SCANNING THE PYRAMIDS Reveals Historic New Discoveries, 1/24
by Tori Hartshorn - December 13, 2017
New documentary premieres Wednesday, January 24 at 10 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). Streams January 25 via pbs.org/secrets and PBS apps....
PBS and WNET Announce New Late-night Public Affairs Programming
by Caryn Robbins - December 05, 2017
PBS and WNET have announcedthat the acclaimed nightly global affairs interview program Amanpour will be presented on an interim basis to PBS stations nationwide. Amanpour on PBS willair on THIRTEEN, New York's PBS station, beginning Monday, December 4...
THIRTEEN's THEATER CLOSE-UP to Air 'THE GABRIELS' Trilogy This December
by TV News Desk - November 21, 2017
This December, Theater Close-Up will raise the curtain for viewers on Tony Award-winning playwright and director Richard Nelson's compelling three-play cycle, The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family....
Julie Taymor Chats THE LION KING Milestone on NYC-ARTS Today
by TV News Desk - November 16, 2017
NYC-ARTS, THIRTEEN's weekly arts and culture multi-platform showcase, brings artslovers an all-access pass to the interesting, unusual and unique cultural offerings of the greater New York City region. On November 16, the series will feature the program's co-host and New York Emmy winner Paula Zahn ...
Egypt's Great Pyramid Discovery Documentary Premieres January 2018 on PBS
by Emily Bruno - November 02, 2017
Following the publication of Nature's article acknowledging the greatest discovery in Egypt's Khufu pyramid for more than 1,000 years, THIRTEEN's Secrets of the Dead: Scanning the Pyramids will unveil the adventure behind this revelation in a new documentary premiering nationwide Wednesday, January ...
Julie Taymor to Chat THE LION KING Milestone on NYC-ARTS This Month
by TV News Desk - November 01, 2017
NYC-ARTS, THIRTEEN's weekly arts and culture multi-platform showcase, brings artslovers an all-access pass to the interesting, unusual and unique cultural offerings of the greater New York City region. On November 16, the series will feature the program's co-host and New York Emmy winner Paula Zahn ...
NYC-ARTS to Feature Juilliard's Dr. Joseph Polisi This Month
by BWW News Desk - October 05, 2017
On October 26, NYC-ARTS will feature the program's co-host and New York Emmy winner Paula Zahn in conversation with Dr. Joseph Polisi, President of the Juilliard School....
PBS to Feature Lyric Opera's ORPHEE ET EURYDICE on GREAT PERFORMANCES
by BWW News Desk - September 29, 2017
Lyric Opera of Chicago has announced that Thirteen Productions LLC for WNET New York has selected the world-renowned opera company's premiere production of the 1774 Paris version of Gluck's Orph e et Eurydice, created by the legendary choreographer John Neumeier and featuring The Joffrey Ballet, to ...
NYC-ARTS Spotlights 2017 Avery Fisher Career Grant Award-Winning Violinst Chad Hoopes
by Emily Bruno - September 14, 2017
NYC-ARTS, Thirteen's weekly arts and culture multi-platform showcase, brings arts lovers an all-access pass to the interesting, unusual and unique cultural offerings of the greater New York City region. Each year, the world-renowned Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts administers The Avery Fisher...
Thirteen's American Masters Presents the U.S. Broadcast Premiere of Richard Linklater -- Dream is Destiny 9/1 on PBS
by BWW News Desk - September 01, 2017
Slacker. Indie filmmaker. Oscar nominee. Writer, director, producer, actor Richard Linklater (b. July 30, 1960) is all these things and more. Boasting a trove of never-before-seen archival footage, American Masters: Richard Linklater -- dream is destiny provides an unconventional look at the fierc...
Thirteen's American Masters Presents the U.S. Broadcast Premiere of Richard Linklater -- Dream is Destiny 9/1 on PBS
by Emily Bruno - August 29, 2017
Slacker. Indie filmmaker. Oscar nominee. Writer, director, producer, actor Richard Linklater (b. July 30, 1960) is all these things and more. Boasting a trove of never-before-seen archival footage, American Masters: Richard Linklater -- dream is destiny provides an unconventional look at the fierc...
Listen: Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks Launches Season 2 of AMERICAN MASTERS PODCAST
by BWW News Desk - August 15, 2017
Today, THIRTEEN's American Masters series launched Season 2 of the American Masters Podcast with new guest host Anna Drezen, Emmy-nominated Saturday Night Live (SNL) writer, comedian and author (How to Win at Feminism, How May We Hate You?, Reductress) on the American Masters website, iTunes, Soundc...
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