Thursday, May 16, 2024
Purlie (Leslie Odom, Jr.) tells Missy (Heather Alicia Simms) about his plan to buy his church back using his cousin's inheritance in this satirical play by Ossie Davis.
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SOURCE: PBS at 10:28AMWednesday, May 15, 2024
The cast of "Rodgers and Hammerstein's 80th Anniversary" (Aaron Tveit, Michael Ball, Daniel Dae Kim, Maria Friedman, Audra McDonald, Julian Ovenden and more) perform "Edelweiss" from the "So…
SOURCE: PBS at 09:00AMTuesday, May 14, 2024
Audra McDonald performs "Cornet Man" from "Funny Girl" and explains her special connection to the song from her high school show choir days.
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SOURCE: PBS at 09:00AMWednesday, May 8, 2024
Patrick Wilson performs "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin" from "Oklahoma" at the 80th Anniversary celebration of Rodgers and Hammerstein's work.
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SOURCE: PBS at 09:00AMTuesday, May 7, 2024
The cast of Hamlet (Ato Blankson-Wood, Solea Pfieffer, and Nick Rehberger) discuss what forces influence their relationships with one another, and how a modern context helps bring new ideas …
SOURCE: PBS at 09:00AMAudra McDonald invites the audience at her London Palladium show to perform "I Could Have Danced All Night" from "My Fair Lady" with her.
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SOURCE: PBS at 09:00AMTuesday, April 30, 2024
The cast of Hamlet (Ato Blankson-Wood, Solea Pfieffer, and Nick Rehberger) discuss what it means to bring Shakespeare's "Hamlet" into the modern day.
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SOURCE: PBS at 10:51AMTuesday, April 23, 2024
Audra McDonald performs "Will He Like Me?" from "She Loves Me" at her concert at the London Palladium.
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SOURCE: PBS at 09:00AMSaturday, April 20, 2024
Ato Blankson-Wood (Hamlet) and Lorraine Toussaint (Gertrude) perform Act III, Scene 4 in the Public Theater's production of "Hamlet."
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SOURCE: PBS at 09:00AMThursday, April 18, 2024
Solea Pfeiffer performs Ophelia's flower monologue from Hamlet Act IV Scene 5.
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SOURCE: PBS at 09:00AMTuesday, April 16, 2024
Ato Blankson-Wood performs Hamlet's famous "To be, or not to be" soliloquy during the Public Theater's production.
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SOURCE: PBS at 09:00AMTuesday, January 30, 2024
Chita Rivera performs "All That Jazz" on "Celebrating 50 Year's of Broadway's Best."
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SOURCE: PBS at 06:17PMWednesday, October 25, 2023
Actors Brian Cox and Nicole Ansari examine one of Folger Shakespeare Library's First Folios and discuss the story behind it's creation.
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SOURCE: PBS at 09:00AMMonday, June 26, 2023
Watch stars such as Rob McClure, Corbin Bleu, Solea Pfeiffer and more discuss their favorite memories of Great Performances and PBS.
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SOURCE: PBS at 02:42PMFriday, May 12, 2023
Sara Bareilles is joined by Jessie Mueller to perform "She Used to Be Mine" from "Waitress."
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SOURCE: PBS at 09:00AMWednesday, May 10, 2023
Rob McClure performs an homage to the last twenty years of Broadway musicals.
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SOURCE: PBS at 11:00AMTuesday, May 9, 2023
Sutton Foster performs an excerpt of "Being Alive" during Great Performances' 50th anniversary celebration.
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SOURCE: PBS at 09:00AMMonday, May 8, 2023
Corbin Bleu performs "That's How You Jazz," an exhilarating tap number from "Jelly's Last Jam" as part of Great Performances’ 50th anniversary celebration.
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SOURCE: PBS at 10:19AMFriday, March 3, 2023
Clarissa Vaughan (Renée Fleming) performs "Funny How Dreams Have a Way" in "The Hours."
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SOURCE: PBS at 09:00AMListen to actor David Strathairn and the directors of "Remember This" explain how they adapted the play for the screen.
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SOURCE: PBS at 09:00AMWednesday, March 1, 2023
Clarissa Vaughan, Laura Brown, and Virginia Woolf (Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, and Joyce DiDonato) perform the final trio from "The Hours."
The post Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, &…
SOURCE: PBS at 06:23PMWednesday, February 1, 2023
Premieres on Friday, March 17 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) Renée Fleming makes her return to the Met in this new opera by from Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Kevin Puts, adap…
SOURCE: PBS at 12:56PMFriday, November 4, 2022
Josh Groban speaks on why he thinks singing in choirs is great training for young singers and why he loves singing with other people today.
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SOURCE: PBS at 09:00AMJosh Groban performs "Bring Him Home" from "Les Misérables" as part of his concert at Radio City Music Hall.
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SOURCE: PBS at 09:00AMWednesday, November 2, 2022
Go behind the scenes with Josh Groban as he talks about collaborating with Cyndi Lauper, Denée Benton, Tiler Peck and more in this interview with Laura Savini.
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SOURCE: PBS at 12:57PMFriday, September 23, 2022
Lynn Nottage speaks with the cast members who both have played the title role and how Nottage reimagined her play as an opera.
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SOURCE: PBS at 02:40PMFriday, May 27, 2022
Get a behind-the-scenes look into the rehearsal room of "Company" with Marianne Elliott, Patti LuPone and Katrina Lenk.
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SOURCE: PBS at 09:00AMMonday, May 23, 2022
Composer Stephen Sondheim, actress Cynthia Nixon and theatre critic Hilton Als discuss the character of Bobby, and how Sondheim's own relationship to his heterosexual, married friends may ha…
SOURCE: PBS at 09:00AMMonday, May 16, 2022
Listen to Katrina Lenk (Bobbie), Cynthia Nixon and the Company cast discuss switching the gender of the character of Bobbie, and how it opened the door to switch other roles in the cast as w…
SOURCE: PBS at 11:54AMFriday, May 13, 2022
Listen to star Sutton Foster and director Kathleen Marshall discuss what it took to revive "Anything Goes."
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SOURCE: PBS at 03:30PMPreview this season of Broadway's Best, featuring "Anything Goes," "Merry Wives," and "Keeping Company with Sondheim."
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SOURCE: PBS at 11:57AM 
