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Based loosely on the plot of Love’s Labour’s Lost, the action of this much acclaimed ska musical is set in 1950s London. The Big Life follows the fortunes of a group of Caribbean immigrants arriving in...
Musical series featuring classical and Broadway music hosted by Frank Baxter. This episode focuses on dramatic and musical interpretations of Shakespeare’s work. Joan Sutherland makes her television debut...
Musical series featuring classical and Broadway music. This episode presents four versions of the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet performed in the theatre, opera (Gounod), ballet (Prokofiev) and the...
A musical comedy based on Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Written by D. F. Aitken, with music by Harry Jacobson and Kenneth Leslie-Smith. Lyrics by Eric Maschwitz and James Dyrenforth. Adapted for radio by...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. In 2015, a new musical Something Rotten! opened on Broadway. The plot: Two brothers living in England in 1595 have had their playwriting careers upended by the...
A musical version of Two Gentlemen of Verona recorded at the Delacorte Theatre, Central Park. The play is directed for stage by Kathleen Marshall and for Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) by Patrick Hoffmann.
Henry Purcell’s ‘semi-opera’ is broadcast as part of a music anthology series about the composer. Anthony Lewis conducts The Boyd Neel Orchestra and the BBC Singers.
Musical comedy. Set in 1595, the story follows the Bottom brothers, Nick and Nigel, who struggle to find success in the theatrical world, as they compete with the wild popularity of their contemporary...
A musical version of the play adapted by Lionel Harris and Robert MacNab. The production originally ran at the Arts Theatre Club, London in a version with added music by Julian Slade. Dennis Ringrowe is the...
A musical version of Romeo and Juliet conceived for stage and filmed for French television. Choreographed by Redha and directed for television by Gilles Amado. Music and lyrics by Gerard Presgurvic.
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