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Radio series, hosted by Paul Lazarus, celebrating the American musical theatre. This programme includes excerpts from a Dramatists Guild symposium with panelists Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Arthur...
Radio broadcast, Writer Robert McCrum goes to America to assess Shakespeare’s appeal. In Washington he discovers that his plays are used to discuss ideas of power and politics. He meets Stephen Sondheim...
Radio broadcast, Writer Robert McCrum goes to America to assess Shakespeare’s appeal. In Nashville he watched Henry V set during the Civil War.Composer Stephen Sondheim and actor Alec Baldwin contribute....
Under the theme of "The Seven Ages of Man"; actors Samuel West and Hattie Morahan perform the poetry of outstanding writers. The programme explores how love changes during the course of a human life. The...
Film version of the musical inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Updates the play to a story of rival teenage gangs (The Sharks and The Jets) in New York. Set in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, with...
Radio documentary hosted by Scott Simon, on the show West Side Story. Members of the original creative team and cast discuss the show’s birth, members of the movie cast discuss the show’s translation...
Steven Spielberg’s period film adaptation, set in the 1950s, of the stage musical by Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim and Jerome Robbins that was inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and...
Video recording of a Platform Performance. Adrian Lester talks to Al Senter about his acting career, focusing on his current role as Othello in Nicholas Hytner’s production. He also talks about working on...
Series in which an actor explores a work by Shakespeare, revealing a personal connection to the work and how it has shaped them professionally. They investigate how their chosen play was written, as well as...
Video recording of a performance by the New York City Ballet of the suite by Jerome Robbins derived from ‘West Side Story’. Taped with a single camera from a fixed wide-angle position at the New York...
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