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  1. Walter Kerr on Theatre (1970 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS (PAL). col. 26 min.

    Drama critic Walter Kerr comments on excerpts from five plays performed by professional actors. He discusses characteristics unique to the live dramatic form by comparing these scenes with segments of film....

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  2. "To Be or Not to Be": Some Views of Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Television)

    aka: Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’

    Director
    Seymour Robbie
    Producer
    Robert Saudek
    Subject
    Drama

    US anthology arts series introduced by Alistair Cooke. The final item in the programme (42 minutes) offers interpretations of Hamlet’s soliloquy ‘To be, or not to be’, with players from the Stratford...

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  3. Omnibus[24/02/1957] (Television)

    aka: Boyhood of Will Shakespeare, The

    Director
    David Greene
    Producer
    Robert Saudek

    Arts series introduced by Alistair Cooke. The programme contained three items - a pantomime by Jean-Louis Barrault, a dramatic sketch about Shakespeare’s youth, and a re-creation of high living among the...

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  4. Omnibus[03/03/1957] (Television)

    aka: Theatre Breaks Loose

    Director
    David Greene
    Producer
    Robert Saudek
    Subject
    Drama

    US arts series introduced by Alistair Cooke. In a 45 min item entitled ‘The Theatre Breaks Loose’ directed by David Greene, critic Walter Kerr chronicles the history of theatre from the Greeks to the...

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  5. Birth of the Stratford Festival (Radio)

    Subject
    Drama

    Radio documentary on the first Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival relating how the Festival was conceived, financed and realised and how the audience viewed the first performance of Richard III which...

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  6. Shakespeare Variates (Television)

    aka: Shakespeare Variations

    Director
    David Pressman
    Producer
    David Susskind; Daniel Melnick
    Subject
    Drama

    A showcase for American repertory theatre companies introduced by Walter Kerr. In this episode the American Shakespeare Festival Players, in Stratford, Connecticut rehearse Coriolanus (I i), The Taming of...

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  7. What Makes Opera Grand? (Television)

    Director
    Seymour Robbie
    Producer
    Robert Saudek; George M. Benson; Walter Kerr; Mary V. Ahern; Richard Thomas (2)
    Subject
    Drama; Music

    US cultural magazine series hosted by Alistair Cooke. In this episode Leonard Bernstein contends that since music is received directly by the heart and does not need to be processed by the brain first, opera...

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