Friday, July 24, 2015
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On June 19, 2001, E.L. Doctorow was interviewed for American Masters – F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams. In this interview outtake, Docto…
SOURCE: PBS at 10:32PMThursday, May 28, 2015
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In this filmmaker interview, Ric Burns describes what camera techniques he used to capture the ephemeral nature of dance on film, as well as …
SOURCE: PBS at 01:32PMSaturday, May 16, 2015
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American Masters teams up with Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Ric Burns to co-produce a new documentary about American Ballet Thea…
SOURCE: PBS at 08:10AMFriday, May 15, 2015
Watch the dancers of America Ballet Theatre in these six stunning GIFs showing off their expert technique and the company's repertory from the past 75 years.
Misty Copeland in Sleeping Beau…
SOURCE: PBS at 01:15PMMisty Copeland joined American Ballet Theatre in 2001 and is its third African-American female soloist and the first in two decades.
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In this film outtake, Daniil Simkin, a principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre, performs excerpts from Benjamin Millepied's Everything …
SOURCE: PBS at 09:40AMTuesday, May 12, 2015
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Step inside the ballet studio as American Ballet Theatre Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie guides principal dancers Julie Kent and Ethan Ste…
SOURCE: PBS at 10:34AMMonday, May 11, 2015
Gillian Murphy, a principal dancer for American Ballet Theatre, shares a diary entry from her jam-packed rehearsal day. After company class, she rehearsed dances for 6.5 hours to prepare for…
SOURCE: PBS at 02:18PMFriday, May 8, 2015
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American Ballet Theatre principal dancers Gillian Murphy and Marcelo Gomes rehearse a section of Pillar of Fire by Antony Tudor. They descr…
SOURCE: PBS at 12:56PMAmerican Ballet Theatre: 75th Anniversary is a soft-cover book of photographs of the ballet company's dancers, past and present, and articles written on the occasion of the company's 75th an…
SOURCE: PBS at 12:27PMMonday, May 4, 2015
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Julie Kent, principal dancer of American Ballet Theatre, joined the company in 1985 and will retire in 2015 after the company's spring seas…
SOURCE: PBS at 04:57PMWednesday, April 29, 2015
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The language of the ballet is in French; it all began in France with King Louis XIV in the 17th century. Wherever ballet is studied, the na…
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"Ballet Theatre, like almost all ballet in America, owes a lot to the Russian dancers who came here after the Revolution and settled in the…
SOURCE: PBS at 12:23PMWednesday, April 22, 2015
American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is recognized as one of the great dance companies in the world. Few ballet companies equal ABT for its combination of size, scope, and outreach. Recognized as a…
SOURCE: PBS at 09:50AMMonday, March 16, 2015
The artistry of singer and actress Judy Garland (1922 – 1969) is a living legacy upheld by the great singers of our time. American Masters asked performing artists who hold Garland’s wor…
SOURCE: PBS at 05:11PMSaturday, February 21, 2015
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American Masters — August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand premiered Friday, February 20 at 9 p.m. on PBS to commemorate the 70th annive…
SOURCE: PBS at 08:52AMThursday, February 19, 2015
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Constanza Romero created costume designs for August Wilson's plays and the two artists married each other in 1994. Romero describes the dec…
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Playwright August Wilson (1945 - 2005) describes how his creative process begins with dialogue that guides his development of characters and …
SOURCE: PBS at 04:15PMWednesday, February 18, 2015
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Filmmaker Sam Pollard's latest documentary for American Masters is August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand. In this filmmaker interview he…
SOURCE: PBS at 04:28PMFriday, February 13, 2015
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Film and stage actor James Earl Jones is interviewed by film director Sam Pollard in this behind-the-scenes footage from August Wilson: The G…
SOURCE: PBS at 03:45PMThursday, February 12, 2015
Music was vital to playwright August Wilson (1945 --2005), who as a teenager honed his writing at the same time he discovered blues musicians like Bessie Smith. Wilson said that when he firs…
SOURCE: PBS at 05:02PMWednesday, February 11, 2015
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A panel discussion followed the screening of highlights from August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand at the Schomburg Center for Researc…
SOURCE: PBS at 03:05PMTuesday, February 10, 2015
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In 1990, August Wilson and his wife, costume designer Constanza Romero, relocated to Seattle. After his death in 2005, the Seattle Repertor…
SOURCE: PBS at 02:10PMMonday, February 9, 2015
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August Wilson and two of his sisters describe his early school days, when he showed an early love of language and learning, and suffered da…
SOURCE: PBS at 10:29AMThursday, February 5, 2015
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SOURCE: PBS at 03:40PMWednesday, January 28, 2015
August Wilson (1945 - 2005) was an award-winning American playwright whose work illuminated the joys and struggles of the African-American experience in the United States during the 20th cen…
SOURCE: PBS at 01:22PMTuesday, January 13, 2015
American Masters teams up with Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Ric Burns to co-produce a new documentary about American Ballet Theatre (ABT) in honor of the ballet company's 75th a…
SOURCE: PBS at 05:20PMThursday, December 18, 2014
The first documentary about the Tony- and Pulitzer-winning playwright August Wilson is a co-production of THIRTEEN’s American Masters series and WQED.
American Masters — August Wilson…
SOURCE: PBS at 04:38PMFriday, November 21, 2014
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In this web-exclusive outtake from American Masters: Inventing David Geffen (2012), Mike Nichols speaks about the ability to not give up and …
SOURCE: PBS at 10:54AMMonday, November 17, 2014
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Bing Crosby sang as if he were addressing only one person with his voice.
"What Bing created was the art of intimacy," says singer Tony…
SOURCE: PBS at 03:16PMTuesday, October 14, 2014
Marian Seldes, a vital figure in New York theater, died October 6, 2014, in her Manhattan home. She was 86. Seldes was an enduring presence on the Broadway stage, notably performing in the w…
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