Broadway's MEMPHIS to be Featured on GREAT PERFORMANCES February 24
by Nicole Rosky - January 31, 2012 Broadway's Memphis, winner of four Tony Awards® including Best Musical, Best Score, Best Book and Best Orchestrations, comes to THIRTEEN's Great Performances Friday, February 24 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). Featuring the original Broadway cast, including Tony nominees Chad Kimball and Mo...
Broadway's MEMPHIS to be Featured on GREAT PERFORMANCES February 24
by BWW News Desk - February 24, 2012 Broadway's Memphis, winner of four Tony Awards® including Best Musical, Best Score, Best Book and Best Orchestrations, comes to THIRTEEN's Great Performances Friday, February 24 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). Featuring the original Broadway cast, including Tony nominees Chad Kimball and Mo...
FAUST Airs on PBS' 'Great Performances at the Met' Today, 5/13
by BWW News Desk - May 13, 2012 Jonas Kaufmann, Marina Poplavskaya, and Rene Pape in New Production of Gounod's Faust on THIRTEEN's Great Performances at the Met, today, May 13 at 12 p.m. on PBS stations, with director Des McAnuff in his Met debut, with Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducting the classic opera for the first time at the Me...
New Season of Thirteen's METROFOCUS to Launch 9/19 & 20
by Caryn Robbins - September 17, 2012 METROFOCUS returns with a new half-hour program and original Web content spotlighting New Yorkers making a difference in people's lives from gun control to women's issues. The premiere episode airs Wednesday, September 19 at 7:30 p.m. on WLIW21, Thursday, September 20 at 8:30p.m. on THIRTEEN, and T...
Netrebko Plays Donizetti's Anna Bolena on THIRTEEN's Great Performances
by Gabrielle Sierra - December 22, 2011 The Metropolitan Opera premiere of Donizetti's Anna Bolena, starring soprano Anna Netrebko in her highly anticipated first North American performances of the tour-de-force title role, will be the 2012 season opener of THIRTEEN's Great Performances at the Met Friday, January 20 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS (c...
Diana DeGarmo, Darren Ritchie, Leslie Kritzer and More to Lead Pre-Broadway Engagement of NERDS - Full Cast Announced!
by Kelsey Denette - November 15, 2012 Full casting and the creative team have been announced for the limited, pre-Broadway engagement of NERDS, A New Musical Comedy at North Carolina Theatre's AJ Fletcher Theatre the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh, NC. The show will run from January 18, 2013 through February 3...
Thirteen's AMERICAN MASTERS to Pay Tribute to Jazz Legend Cab Calloway, 2/27
by Caryn Robbins - January 31, 2012 American Masters celebrates 'The Hi De Ho Man's' career and legacy during Black History Month with the new documentary CAB CALLOWAY: SKETCHES premiering nationally Monday, February 27 at 10 p.m. (ET/PT) on PBS (check local listings). In the New York metro-area the film airs Sunday, February 26 at 8 ...
Herbie Hancock, Gustavo Dudamel, LA Phil Celebrate Gershwin Airs on PBS
by BWW News Desk - January 06, 2012 On January 6, 2012, PBS's Great Performances airs Herbie Hancock, Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil Celebrate Gershwin, a live recording of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Opening Night Gala and Concert with Music Director Gustavo Dudamel and Creative Chair for Jazz Herbie Hancock....
PBS to Air NATURE'S RIVER OF NO RETURN, 4/18
by Caryn Robbins - April 03, 2012 NATURE'S RIVER OF NO RETURN, premieres Wednesday, April 18, 2012, at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). After broadcast, the series will stream online at pbs.org/nature....
Netrebko Plays Donizetti's Anna Bolena on THIRTEEN's Great Performances
by BWW News Desk - January 20, 2012 The Metropolitan Opera premiere of Donizetti's Anna Bolena, starring soprano Anna Netrebko in her highly anticipated first North American performances of the tour-de-force title role, will be the 2012 season opener of THIRTEEN's Great Performances at the Met Friday, January 20 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS (c...
FAUST Airs on PBS' 'Great Performances at the Met,' 5/13
by BWW News Desk - May 02, 2012 Jonas Kaufmann, Marina Poplavskaya, and Rene Pape in New Production of Gounod's Faust on THIRTEEN's Great Performances at the Met, Sunday, May 13 at 12 p.m. on PBS stations, with director Des McAnuff in his Met debut, with Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducting the classic opera for the first time at the M...
Netrebko Plays Donizetti's Anna Bolena on THIRTEEN's Great Performances
by BWW News Desk - January 20, 2012 The Metropolitan Opera premiere of Donizetti's Anna Bolena, starring soprano Anna Netrebko in her highly anticipated first North American performances of the tour-de-force title role, will be the 2012 season opener of THIRTEEN's Great Performances at the Met Friday, January 20 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS (c...
2nd Season Of At The Paley Center To Feature Glenn Close, Marlo Thomas
by Gabrielle Sierra - January 11, 2012 The Paley Center for Media and WNET will bring legendary voices and footage to New York metro area public television viewers in the second season of the interview series At the Paley Center premiering 8:30 p.m. on THIRTEEN beginning January 19th, Tuesdays at 10:30 p.m. on WLIW21 beginning on January...
Joel Grey to Narrate PBS's BROADWAY MUSICALS: A JEWISH LEGACY, 1/1
by Caryn Robbins - November 27, 2012 As Sir Robin carols merrily to King Arthur in Monty Python's Spamalot, 'In any great adventure, if you don't want to lose…you won't succeed on Broadway if you don't have any Jews.' Eric Idle's cheeky lyric, which unfailingly generated knowing guffaws from Broadway audiences, proves to be more than a...
Thirteen Announces Upcoming Classic Film Line-Up
by Caryn Robbins - June 27, 2012 From adultery on a dart team to Chicago White Sox players on trial for throwing the World Series, the July offerings on 'Reel 13' - including 'Heartlands,' 'The Hustler,' 'Eight Men Out' and 'Rocky II' -- show that, whatever the game, good sportsmanship doesn't always prevail....
Buble, Blige Among Guests on PBS's ROD STEWART: MERRY CHRISTMAS, BABY
by Caryn Robbins - October 26, 2012 Grammy Award®-winning, two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Rod Stewart, hosts his first holiday special, ROD STEWART: MERRY CHRISTMAS BABY, on THIRTEEN's Great Performances beginning this December on PBS. (Check local listings.)...
2nd Season Of At The Paley Center To Feature Glenn Close, Marlo Thomas
by Gabrielle Sierra - January 11, 2012 The Paley Center for Media and WNET will bring legendary voices and footage to New York metro area public television viewers in the second season of the interview series At the Paley Center premiering 8:30 p.m. on THIRTEEN beginning January 19th, Tuesdays at 10:30 p.m. on WLIW21 beginning on January...
PBS Airs A CELEBRATION OF MGM FILM MUSICALS Today, 8/18
by BWW News Desk - August 18, 2012 A CELEBRATION OF CLASSIC MGM FILM MUSICALS premieres tonight, August 18 at 7:30 p.m. on THIRTEEN in New York (check local listings nationally August 2012)....
TEACHING CHANNEL PRESENTS to Premiere on WLIW & Thirteen, 9/23
by Caryn Robbins - September 20, 2012 TEACHING CHANNEL PRESENTS returns this fall to public television stations with new weekly one-hour episodes addressing critical issues facing educators today. Launched in 2011,Teaching Channel Presents is an unprecedented series that opens up classroom doors and showcases inspiring teaching across ...
2nd Season Of At The Paley Center To Feature Glenn Close, Marlo Thomas
by BWW News Desk - January 19, 2012 The Paley Center for Media and WNET will bring legendary voices and footage to New York metro area public television viewers in the second season of the interview series At the Paley Center premiering 8:30 p.m. on THIRTEEN beginning January 19th, Tuesdays at 10:30 p.m. on WLIW21 beginning on January...
Herbie Hancock, Gustavo Dudamel, LA Phil Celebrate Gershwin Airs on PBS
by Gabrielle Sierra - December 06, 2011 On January 6, 2012, PBS's Great Performances airs Herbie Hancock, Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil Celebrate Gershwin, a live recording of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Opening Night Gala and Concert with Music Director Gustavo Dudamel and Creative Chair for Jazz Herbie Hancock....
THIRTEEN's Great Performances Chronicles Paul Simon's Graceland Journey Tonight
by TV News Desk - January 04, 2013 Paul Simon's Graceland Journey: Under African Skies begins with Paul Simon's 2011 emotional journey back to South Africa and the roots of his seminal album Graceland, but it unfolds into a kaleidoscopic portrait of the turbulent birth and ever-shifting life of a work of art. Joe Berlinger's film air...
Renee Fleming, Johan Botha to Star in 'Otello' on Great Performances' AT THE MET, 2/24
by Claire Hannum - January 29, 2013 Verdi's Shakespearean tragedy OTELLO starring Johan Botha in the title role and Renee Fleming as Otello's innocent wife, Desdemona, airs on GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET Sunday, February 24 at 12 noon on PBS (check local listings)....
PBS to Air A CELEBRATION OF MGM FILM MUSICALS
by Caryn Robbins - July 24, 2012 A CELEBRATION OF CLASSIC MGM FILM MUSICALS premieres Saturday, August 4 at 5:30 p.m. on PBS SoCal in Los Angeles and Saturday, August 18 at 7:30 p.m. on THIRTEEN in New York (check local listings nationally August 2012)....
Paul McCartney's 'Live Kisses' Airs on PBS's GREAT PERFORMANCES Tonight, 9/7
by BWW News Desk - September 07, 2012 Paul McCartney's Live Kisses captures the magical night of February 9 in the City of Angels - coincidentally, the 48th anniversary of The Beatles' U.S. TV debut on The Ed Sullivan Show no less --when Paul McCartney decided to bring Kisses On The Bottom, his newly released collection of pop standards... |
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