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As a two-year global celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s work commences, Neva Grant interviews two experts on the great composer to explore his legacy and the creation of the adaptation of Romeo and Juliet,...
Irregularly scheduled series of musical specials featuring Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Bernstein compares the beat in Shakespeare’s verse to rhythms in jazz, Beethoven’s...
Trailer. A promotional film for Franco Zeffirelli’s ROMEO AND JULIET. Shows the director rehearsing a scene with Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, and of the ‘Swinging Youth Premiere’ in New York City...
Talk by Ormerod Greenwood on the reception of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Includes passages from Voltaire, Nase, Hazlitt, and Joyce, which are read by Leonard Sachs and Harold Scott.
In the 17th century, London hosted a rich and vibrant theatre scene where the great works of Shakespeare thrived. However, we shall never know the true extent of the creative breadth and range during this...
Television sitcom. A spin-off from the soap opera CORONATION STREET, featuring Leonard Swindley (Arthur Lowe) in the same fussy, pedantic role but now assistant manager of a northern chain store, Dobson and...
Podcast hosted by Greg LaBlanc. When we read fiction, our brains are able to suspend our awareness of the fiction so we can fully immerse ourselves in the story we’re reading. When this happens, we are...
Three-part series screening previously unseen television interviews with Bernard Braden given in 1968. In this second episode Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting speak about their roles in Zeffirelli’s ROMEO...
A version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream aimed at young people and performed by Free Theatre of Germantown Theatre Guild. Directed for stage by Katharine Minehart and for television by Leonard Valenta. The...
A television adaptation of W.S. Gilbert’s 1891 burlesque. The script parodies the style of Shakespearean performance in the 1890s and centres on Claudius’ secret - that in his youth he was the author of...
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