Latest Articles About Great Performances on PBS
THIRTEEN'S Great Performances Spotlights Edward Villella's Miami City Ballet
by Gabrielle Sierra - August 30, 2010 THIRTEEN's Great Performances: Dance in America puts the spotlight on one of America's finest dance companies, Edward Villella's Miami City Ballet, in a program to be taped mid-September in Miami. The program will air later this season on a date to be announced....
Bellini's La Sonnambula Airs On Great Performances At The Met On PBS July 11
by BWW News Desk - July 11, 2009 'Something that has not been said about the moon?' replied Spanish writer Ramon Gomez de la Serna. 'That it gives manicures to women sleepwalkers.'...
LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN Premieres on THIRTEEN's Great Performances at the Met
by Gabrielle Sierra - February 24, 2010 The Metropolitan Opera's new production of Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann, conducted by Met Music Director James Levine and directed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher, premieres on THIRTEEN'S Great Performances at the Met series....
Great Performances IN THE HEIGHTS Doc Holds World Premiere at Paley Center 5/4
by BWW News Desk - May 04, 2009 Great Performances: In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams chronicles the personal stories of composer/lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of In the Heights in the months leading up to opening night. The program's broadcast premiere is Wednesday, May 27 at 8 p.m. (ET) on THIRTEEN's Great Perfo...
Great Performances IN THE HEIGHTS Doc Holds World Premiere at Paley Center 5/4
by Eddie Varley - April 29, 2009 Great Performances: In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams chronicles the personal stories of composer/lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of In the Heights in the months leading up to opening night. The program's broadcast premiere is Wednesday, May 27 at 8 p.m. (ET) on THIRTEEN's Great Perfo...
MET Opera's HAMLET Airs on PBS, 7/15 & 7/18
by BWW News Desk - July 15, 2010 Baritone Simon Keenlyside, whose performance as Hamlet received rave reviews when this production by Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser was introduced at the Metropolitan Opera, commands the stage in the opera's premiere on THIRTEEN's Great Performances at the Met, in primetime on Thursday, July 15 at...
Behind-the-scenes Documentary 'The Audition' Premieres on Thirteen's Great Performances at the Met on PBS
by BWW News Desk - January 20, 2010 Award-winning filmmaker Susan Froemke looks at the intense pressures young opera singers face as they struggle to succeed in one of the difficult professions in the performing arts in The Audition. ...
MET Opera's HAMLET Airs on PBS, 7/15 & 7/18
by BWW News Desk - July 15, 2010 Baritone Simon Keenlyside, whose performance as Hamlet received rave reviews when this production by Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser was introduced at the Metropolitan Opera, commands the stage in the opera's premiere on THIRTEEN's Great Performances at the Met, in primetime on Thursday, July 15 at...
PBS Great Performances to Air 'Sondheim: The Birthday Concert' this Fall
by Lauren Wolman - February 25, 2010 According to published reports, NY Philharmonic's 'Sondheim: The Birthday Concert,' will be recorded for PBS' 'Great Performances' series. The concert will take place March 15-16 at Avery Fisher Hall....
RSC's HAMLET With Tennant & Stewart Airs on THIRTEEN'S Great Performances 4/28
by Gabrielle Sierra - March 30, 2010 Shakespeare's immortal 'To be, or not to be' takes on a whole new meaning (and medium) as classical stage and screen actors David Tennant and (recently-knighted) Sir Patrick Stewart reprise their roles for a modern-dress, film-for-television adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's (RSC) 2008 s...
Williams to Compose New Theme Music for THIRTEEN's Great Performances
by Eddie Varley - March 16, 2009 WNET.ORG, New York's public media provider, teams up with leading American composer John Williams to score new theme music for THIRTEEN's award-winning performing arts series Great Performances....
PBS Great Performances to Air 'Sondheim: The Birthday Concert' this Fall
by Lauren Wolman - February 25, 2010 According to published reports, NY Philharmonic's 'Sondheim: The Birthday Concert,' will be recorded for PBS' 'Great Performances' series. The concert will take place March 15-16 at Avery Fisher Hall....
Spike Lee's PASSING STRANGE Gets PBS Broadcast, 1/13
by Jessica Lewis - December 23, 2009 The show universally applauded for its originality, deep emotional resonance, and powerful, high-octane score, makes its broadcast debut on THIRTEEN'S Great Performances on PBS. Passing Strange, the Spike Lee-directed film featuring the award-winning Broadway rock musical of the same title, will air...
RSC's HAMLET With Tennant & Stewart Airs on THIRTEEN'S Great Performances 4/28
by Gabrielle Sierra - March 30, 2010 Shakespeare's immortal 'To be, or not to be' takes on a whole new meaning (and medium) as classical stage and screen actors David Tennant and (recently-knighted) Sir Patrick Stewart reprise their roles for a modern-dress, film-for-television adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's (RSC) 2008 s...
HAMLET Returns To The MET Opera After 113 Years Since Its Last Staging
by Gabrielle Sierra - July 12, 2010 Baritone Simon Keenlyside, whose performance as Hamlet received rave reviews when this production by Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser was introduced at the Metropolitan Opera, commands the stage in the opera's premiere on THIRTEEN's Great Performances at the Met, in primetime on Thursday, July 15 at...
CHESS in Concert with Menzel, Groban and Pascal Coming to PBS in 2009
by Robert Diamond - January 16, 2009 Air dates have not yet been set, but Wicked's Idina Menzel and Rent's Adam Pascal will join Great Performances favorite Josh Groban in a spectacular London concert revival of Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus' 1986 cult musical Chess, this summer on Great Performances (check local listings). Present...
RSC's HAMLET With Tennant & Stewart Airs on THIRTEEN'S Great Performances 4/28
by BWW News Desk - April 28, 2010 Shakespeare's immortal 'To be, or not to be' takes on a whole new meaning (and medium) as classical stage and screen actors David Tennant and (recently-knighted) Sir Patrick Stewart reprise their roles for a modern-dress, film-for-television adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's (RSC) 2008 s...
Bellini's La Sonnambula Airs On Great Performances At The Met On PBS July 11
by Gabrielle Sierra - June 16, 2009 'Something that has not been said about the moon?' replied Spanish writer Ramon Gomez de la Serna. 'That it gives manicures to women sleepwalkers.'...
'Sondheim: The Birthday Concert' To Air On PBS, 11/24
by Abigail Arnold - July 22, 2010 NY Philharmonic's 'Sondheim: The Birthday Concert' will air as part of PBS' 'Great Performances' series at 9:30pm on November 24. The concert took place March 15-16 at Avery Fisher Hall....
Great Performances Presents Jerome Robbins' NY Export: Opus Jazz
by Gabrielle Sierra - February 24, 2010 In 1958, Jerome Robbins' 'ballet in sneakers,' NY Export: Opus Jazz, became a smash hit when it was broadcast on The Ed Sullivan Show and toured around the world....
Production of Bizet's Carmen Premieres on THIRTEEN'S Great Performances at the Met
by Gabrielle Sierra - April 21, 2010 Richard Eyre, the renowned British director of theater and film, explores the passionate drama of Bizet's Carmen and the power of her desires in his new production at the Metropolitan Opera, which premieres on THIRTEEN'S Great Performances at the Met series. 'Her sexuality is a life force, it's a de...
Great Performances IN THE HEIGHTS Doc Holds World Premiere at Paley Center 5/4
by Eddie Varley - April 29, 2009 Great Performances: In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams chronicles the personal stories of composer/lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of In the Heights in the months leading up to opening night. The program's broadcast premiere is Wednesday, May 27 at 8 p.m. (ET) on THIRTEEN's Great Perfo...
RSC's HAMLET With Tennant & Stewart Airs on THIRTEEN'S Great Performances 4/28
by BWW News Desk - April 28, 2010 Shakespeare's immortal 'To be, or not to be' takes on a whole new meaning (and medium) as classical stage and screen actors David Tennant and (recently-knighted) Sir Patrick Stewart reprise their roles for a modern-dress, film-for-television adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's (RSC) 2008 s...
'Lights Up!' IN THE HEIGHTS Documentary To Premiere On PBS 5/27
by Charlie Piane - April 13, 2009 'In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams,' a documentary film telling Behind-The-Scenes Story of the 2008 Tony Award-Winning Musical, premieres on THIRTEEN's Great Performances, May 27 on PBS...
Operas Staged by Taymor, Sher, Etc. to Air on PBS
by BWW News Desk - January 23, 2007 Julie Taymor, Bartlett Sher, Jack O'Brien and other acclaimed directors will stage works at the Metropolitan Opera House.... |
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