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Television musical variety show. The second half of the programme is wholly devoted to a performance of the Pyramus and Thisbe scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (V.i) performed by the Crazy Gang. Sets...
Video recording of the Shakespeare Theatre’s 1996 production of Antony and Cleopatra directed for stage by Ron Daniels and videotaped for WAPAVA by James J. Taylor. Tom Hewitt and Helen Carey in the title...
Video recording of the American Conservatory Theatre’s 1996 production of The Tempest directed by Carey Perloff with David Strathairn as Prospero.
Radio version of the play performed by the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company with Peggy Ashcroft as Portia and Michael Redgrave as Shylock. Produced by William Hughes from Denis Carey’s 1953 production...
Short. Biography of Shakespeare highlighting the various jobs he worked at in the theatre. Filmed as a promotion piece to the forthcoming MGM production ROMEO AND JULIET (1936) directed by Cukor.
Comedy. Observing a laundress’ attack on a customer who tries to leave without paying, a vaudeville booking agent hires them to perform the same scene on stage. The two demand to perform Shakespeare, so...
Television documentary on the staging of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet choreographed by the company’s artistic director, Wes Chapman, and performed by the Alabama Ballet. The first part focuses on the...
Radio comedy anthology series. This episode is about a bridegroom who makes the mistake of using The Taming of the Shrew as a guidebook for a happy marriage.
BBC Radio 3 arts series. Matthew Sweet presents a special edition examining the relationship between Shakespeare and Americans. Discusses the Californian goldrush and Alexis De Toqueville’s claim that...
Video recording of Jean Gascon’s 1970 production of The Merchant of Venice for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Donald Davis is Shylock and Maureen O’Hara plays Portia.
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