The Great War is a four-hour cinematic documentary covering U.S. involvement in World War I in the critical year of 1918. After three years of horrific battle in the trenches of France and Belgium, the Allies are on the verge of collapse—and Germany the cusp of victory. The United States is forced to rapidly train, arm, and ship millions of young soldiers overseas to Europe for the first time.
Our story follows General John J. Pershing, leader of the American Expeditionary Force, who is charged with training and deploying an army almost from scratch; Michael B. Ellis, a young man fighting with the Army's soon to be legendary Big Red One; and Horace Pippin and Henry Johnson, brave African American soldiers whose courage in battle helped their regiment be christened the Harlem Hellfighters.
The Great War weaves together the stories of these four men to tell one story: how an isolationist America reluctantly entered World War I and emerged a global power.
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Michael Morpurgo's PRIVATE PEACEFUL Announces UK Tour
by Stephi Wild - September 07, 2021
The Nottingham Playhouse production of Michael Morpurgo's award-winning novel, Private Peaceful, adapted for the stage by Simon Reade and directed by Elle While, today announces it will embark on a major UK tour following its Nottingham premiere. ...
Puppets A Glow-Go and WWI To 9/11 Among September Offerings At the National WWI Museum and Memorial
by A.A. Cristi - September 02, 2021
Puppets a Glow-Go, a drive-through art experience from the Stonelion Puppet Group, returns on Friday-Saturday, Sept. 24-25 from 7:30 – 10 p.m. Giant illuminated puppets, Kansas City Aerial Arts and glow artists will light up the night in a drive-through parade. ...
BWW Review: MARY'S WEDDING at Kansas City Repertory Theatre
by Alan Portner - August 27, 2021
It was their special place; a run-down barn somewhere in a Canadian prairie province. Mary, a UK transplant during the early second decade of the twentieth century, has returned here for a kind of exorcism. “Mary’s Wedding” is the first Kansas City directorial outing for newly minted Kan...
John Brancy and Peter Dugan to Release 'The Journey Home: Live from the Kennedy Center'
by A.A. Cristi - May 03, 2021
On May 28, 2021 Vocal Arts DC in collaboration with Avie Records will release The Journey Home: Live from the Kennedy Center. Inspired by the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI, the concert, which sold-out at the time, explores timeless themes of longing, loss, love, and the search for peace in the...
HE SAID AND SHE SAID Comes to The Metropolitan Virtual Playhouse
by Stephi Wild - March 24, 2021
Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse presents a new free 'screened' reading, live-streamed at no charge, with talkback to follow: HE SAID AND SHE SAID, by Alice Gerstenberg....
Metropolitan Playhouse Presents a Reading of SHELL SHOCK
by Stephi Wild - November 03, 2020
The groundbreaking reading series continues as Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse presents its next free ''screened'' reading: SHELL SHOCK, by Eugene O'Neill, live-streamed at no charge, with talkback to follow, on November 7th, 2020 at 8 PM, EDT. ...
Allen And Gray's New Voices Concert Series Will Feature Jye Bryant
by A.A. Cristi - September 25, 2020
Allen and Gray's digital New Voices Concert series comes back to their Facebook page this Monday (September 28th) and will feature Jye Bryant, writer of the music and lyrics for The Oldest Profession - A New Musical. ...
SILK AND STEEL: FRENCH FASHION, WOMEN AND WWI Exhibition Opens This Month
by A.A. Cristi - September 09, 2020
When the first World War exploded in the late summer of 1914, armies took the field in bright uniforms and navies steamed to sea flying the colors of their nations. For the ensuing years of global war until the peace treaty was signed on June 28, 1919, most history has centered on battles, leaders a...
The American Opera Project Announces WORKING WOMEN: Songs Of Suffering and Suffrage Online Tour
by A.A. Cristi - August 28, 2020
Working Women connects the women of World War I, the women who fought for suffrage, and the women of today through the power of song, using archival footage alongside documentary-style music videos by filmmaker Lesley Steele. ...
Michael Morpurgo to Make Guest Appearance at BARNFEST OUTDOOR THEATRE FESTIVAL
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 04, 2020
The Barn Theatre in Cirencester have announced internationally best-selling author Michael Morpurgo will make a guest appearance at BarnFest - Outdoor Theatre Festival for a post-show Q&A session following the opening night performance of Simon Reade's play adaptation of his modern classic Private P...
August Events Announced at National WWI Museum and Memorial
by A.A. Cristi - July 30, 2020
Outdoor events allowing for social distancing, the debut of a new exhibition about the women's suffrage movement and a series of engaging online presentations are among the August offerings from the National WWI Museum and Memorial. ...
National WWI Museum and Memorial Announces $125,000 Gift From National Endowment For The Humanities
by A.A. Cristi - June 24, 2020
The National WWI Museum and Memorial announced a grant for $125,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to digitize and transcribe letters, diaries and journals from soldiers and family members originated from World War I....
Musical Theater Heritage To Stream SONGS OF THE GREAT WAR
by A.A. Cristi - May 15, 2020
Originally produced in collaboration with The National World War I Museum and Memorial, and through special agreement with Actors Equity Association, MTH is proud to offer a five-camera, cinematic capture of its original revue Songs of the Great War to commemorate Memorial Day weekend....
Musical Theater Heritage to Stream Original Production of SONGS OF THE GREAT WAR
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 15, 2020
Originally produced in collaboration with The National World War I Museum and Memorial, and through special agreement with Actors Equity Association, MTH will offer a five-camera, cinematic capture of its original revue Songs of the Great War to commemorate Memorial Day weekend....
National WWI Museum and Memorial Announce Virtual Programs for Memorial Day and More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 28, 2020
While the National WWI Museum and Memorial remains closed in the physical sense due to the COVID-19/Coronavirus, the organization remains 'open' with an array of virtual offerings throughout May....
Metropolitan Playhouse to Present Live-Streamed Staged Reading of HE SAID AND SHE SAID
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 27, 2020
Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse will present a stage reading of Alice Gerstenberg's short one-act, HE SAID AND SHE SAID, via live stream video on Saturday, March 28, 2020 at 7 PM....
OPERA America's Discovery Grants Awarded
by A.A. Cristi - March 26, 2020
OPERA America is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020 Discovery Grants from the Opera Grants for Female Composers program....
BWW Review: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, VAULT Festival
by Cindy Marcolina - March 07, 2020
Incognito Theatre are back at VAULT Festival with an adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front. Brutal, visceral, and told in Incognito's own exquisite brand of physical theatre, the show is a moving and detailed account of the Great War from the perspective of the German s...
BWW Review: OH, WHAT A LOVELY WAR! at Hart House Theatre
by Louis Train - February 29, 2020
When the musical OH, WHAT A LOVELY WAR! premiered in London, in the 1960s, World War One was relatively fresh in the minds of the audience, most having either lived through it or being the child of someone who had. Today, the show, which strings together British songs from the Great War through a se...
PRIVATE PEACEFUL Comes To Nottingham Playhouse And Will Embark On Tour
by Stephi Wild - February 25, 2020
Nottingham Playhouse has revealed the cast of upcoming wartime tale Private Peaceful. Including several actors from Nottinghamshire, it's a production that is set to transport families and schools back in time....
National WWI Museum and Memorial Has Released February Schedule of Events
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 07, 2020
The National WWI Museum and Memorial's February offerings include a lecture on the role of the United States military in Siberia during WWI, a screening of the French film See You Up There, which retells the stories of two friends in post-WWI France, and a presentation discussing the racial tensions...
Hart House Theatre Presents OH, WHAT A LOVELY WAR!
by A.A. Cristi - January 30, 2020
Hart House Theatre presents a modern interpretation of a play with music Oh, What a Lovely War! Toronto, Ontario - Opening on February 28, Hart House Theatre continues to mark its 100th Anniversary Season with a show that salutes the House's past connection to the war effort; all through the lens o...
The Park Theatre Presents Peter Jackson's Epic WWI Documentary for Free on Veterans Day
by Kaitlin Milligan - November 04, 2019
The Park Theatre continues its yearly tradition of presenting an important film relating to veterans and war every Veterans Day, free-of-charge. This year they will present Academy Award® winner Peter Jackson's (a?oeThe Lord of the Ringsa?? Trilogy, a?oeThe Hobbita?? Trilogy) poignant WWI documen...
Livonia Community Theatre Announces A Season Of Service
by A.A. Cristi - October 30, 2019
Livonia Community Theatre's 2019-2020 season will honor and explore the historical experience of women in wartime, beginning Veteran's Day weekend with a production of Women and War, a one-act play by Jack Hilton Cunningham. The show runs November 8 and 9, 2019 at 7:30 p.m., and November 10, 2019, a...
ALL IS CALM: THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE OF 1914 Returns to Veterans' Museum and Adds North County Performance
by Julie Musbach - October 11, 2019
Bodhi Tree Concerts brings its award-winning special holiday performance, All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914, back to the Veterans' Museum in Balboa Park for the third time since its premiere there in 2016. Conducted by Sacra/Profana's Juan Carlos Acosta, All Is Calm opens on Friday, November ...
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