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A made-for-television adaptation of The Frog Prince. In the comic fairy tale Prince John (Maguire) and his squire (Short) are turned into frogs and 500 years later find themselves in New York City where the...
French television drama. Sylvie, 35, lives and works in her parent’s farm, isolated in the mountains. The only entertainment after her long working days is a theatre class one night a week in a nearby...
Radio series of biographical discussions with Matthew Parris. In this episode Jude Kelly, artistic director of London’s Southbank Centre, nominates Edwardian theatre producer Lilian Baylis. Among various...
Television drama about the Regency dandy Beau Brummell focusing on his relationship with the Prince Regent. There are Shakespeare references throughout especially in two short scenes in which the Prince asks...
Television documentary that follows conductor Leonard Bernstein as he records, over four days, the first complete recording of West Side Story. Filmed in a New York recording studio with a pick-up orchestra,...
Feature filmed based on Betty Smith’s novel of the same name. A young girl, Francie, tries to keep her idealism alive and surmount the hardships of her slum tenement life in the face of her family’s...
Stage recording of King Lear with Kevin Kline in the title role. Directed for stage by James Lapine and for Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) by Richard Stucker.
One-act play by J. M. Barrie adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pughe. Set in pre-1920 England. 23-year old Charles Roche from Oxford falls in love with a charming actress. When he eventually tracks her...
Documentary. Joely Richardson looks at Shakespeare’s women examining As You Like It and Twelfth Night covering issues such as cross dressing, twins, disguise, the nature of comedy and gender. The...
American television drama series created by Kurt Sutter about the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town in Northern California. Loosely based on Shakespeare’s...
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