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1) Othello
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In this production, Lucian Msamati makes theatrical history as the first black actor to ever play Iago at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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"Valentine and Proteus are best friends until they fall in love with the same girl.Having travelled to Milan in search of adventure, they both fall for the Duke's daughter Silvia. But Proteus is already sworn to his sweetheart Julia at home in Verona, and the Duke thinks Valentine is not good enough for his Silvia. With friendship forgotten, the rivals' affections quickly get out of hand as the four young lovers find themselves on a wild chase through...
3) Barrymore
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A filmed play of Christopher Plummer in his Tony Award winning performance as iconic stage and screen idol John Barrymore. At the height of his remarkable career, John Barrymore was the most celebrated entertainer of his generation. The reigning king of both Broadway and Hollywood, his decline and fall from grace was the tragic result of a self-destructive spiral into vice and excess. And now, with his career in tatters, he makes one final attempt...
4) Macbeth
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Directed by Eve Best, this production of William Shakespeare's dark and powerful tragedy about ambition, murder, guilt and remorse stars Samantha Spiro as Lady Macbeth.
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"Titus has returned from a brutal 10-year war having lost 21 sons in battle. Betrayed by his nation, and with his family in pieces, a series of bloody events follows as he and Tamora, Queen of the Goths, begin a violent cycle of revenge. Rape, canibalism, mutilation and murder are the gruesome tools in Shakespeare's bloodiest play"--Container.
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Grandma Hattie Mae's family is poor and struggling to save her home. The Willis family is filthy rich. When Hattie's daughter, Rose, and son-in-law, Frank, go to work at the Willis estate, it appears as if their financial worries are over. But when Mrs. Willis tries to buy Frank's affections, both families learn that choices often come with a price.
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Samantha Stone, a smart and beautiful wife and mother, has been happily married to her high school sweetheart Sylvester Stone for seventeen years. On the day they're set to move into their dream home, Sylvester confesses that he is leaving her for another woman. Program is a recording of a live stage presentation.
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From 1950 to 1955, every Sunday night NBC's Colgate Comedy Hour presented live musical variety television featuring the top names in vaudeville, theater, radio and film. In this 1954 production of the famed Cole Porter musical comedy 'Anything Goes, ' Frank Sinatra and Ethel Mermen made their television debuts, belting out classic tunes in this blockbuster song and dance production.
"On a luxurious ocean liner, a nightclub singer helps a fellow American...
12) Church girl
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Follows the life of Emily Franklin, a pastor's daughter who is lured into a dangerous and fast-paced world that leads her away from the spiritual and virtuous lessons she has been taught since childhood. She still goes to church on Sunday and sings in the choir, but it's what she does Monday through Saturday that would shock the congregation.
13) Thurgood
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The remarkable celebration of the life and legacy of civil rights advocate and Supreme Court pioneer Thurgood Marshall, the first African American appointed to the nation's highest judicial bench. Filmed before a live audience at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater, this compelling one-man play written play written by Peabody Award and Emmy Award winner George Stevens, Jr. and directed by Emmy Award winner Michael Stevens stars the Emmy Award...
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Helena loves the arrogant Bertram, and when she cures the King of France of his sickness, she claims Bertram as her reward. But her new husband, flying from Helena to join the wars, attaches two obstructive conditions to their marriage - conditions he is sure will never be met. Featuring Olivier-award winning actress Janie Dee as the Countess of Roussillon, Sam Crane as Bertram, and Ellie Piercy as Helena.
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"In this stage play, Arthur Terry is relishing that he is free from having to keep forking out money for his daughters. They are grown and now he can live the life of riley. But when his youngest daughter announces her wedding plans, that all goes up in smoke. Now there's a large wedding tab looming. But he thinks he as a secret weapon. His oldest daughter Sharon finds out and is determined to throw a monkey wrench into the holiday wedding."--Container....
18) Romeo and Juliet
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Jealousy. Prejudice. Betrayal. And the chance that true love could actually conquer all. It could only be the greatest love story of all time, and, for the first time in over 36 years, it played live on Broadway in a stunningly modern production.
19) The perfect man
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A divorced man realizes he made a mistake and tries to win back his ex-wife, who is dating a man that seems too good to be true.
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In a tour-de-force performance, international mezzo soprano Linn Maxwell transports us back to medieval Europe to meet German writer, composer, healer and prophet Hildegard of Bingen in this captivating one-woman show dramatizing the life of this remarkable saint. Throughout her life of devotion, Hildegard experienced visions from God that called her to express herself through her many talents and assume a role of leadership inside the church - one...