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The Radio City Rockettes rehearse in New York October for this year's production of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. The production will feature new scenes, Rockette choreography, cost…
Kuwaiti playwright and theater director Sulayman al-Bassam adapts Shakespearean plays to the modern Arab context to explore issues of religion and society in the contemporary Gulf. Art Beat …
An American favorite for his award-winning role in the hit TV series House, the versatile British actor Hugh Laurie showcases his musical side in an atmospheric personal odyssey filmed on lo…
Listen to the AudioActress Rita Moreno, 80, now has a solo show about her life as a star of stage and screen called "Life Without Makeup." In a joint production with KQED San Francisco, corr…
Download "Police Dog Blues," the tenth track on Hugh Laurie's debut album Let Them Talk. Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk " A Celebration of New Orleans Blues airs on THIRTEEN's Great Performances…
Listen to the AudioReinterpreting a classic work is always a sensitive undertaking, but when that classic is "Porgy and Bess," the singular American opera, it can get downright controversial…
Hugh Laurie talks about his love of the blues and New Orleans in this behind-the-scenes interview for his upcoming program for Great Performances, Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk. Please view …
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Here are three arts or performance videos you may have missed from public broadcasters around the nation. THIRTEEN goes behind the scenes at Broadway's "War Horse" to learn how the crea…
In remembrance and renewal, THIRTEEN'S Great Performances will broadcast A Concert for New York , performed by the New York Philharmonic on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of 9/11 , le…
Florine Stettheimer's set for Act I of the 1934 production of "Four Saints in Three Acts." Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Photo by Harold …
Listen to the AudioAustralian actors Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh have brought the Anton Chekhov classic "Uncle Vanya" back to the stage, playing now at Washington's Kennedy Center. J…
"When people learn to play videogames," according to James Paul Gee, "they are learning a new literacy." This is one of the reason kids love playing them: They are learning a new interact…
Adrian Iglesias, Betsy Helmer and Justin McCarthy perform an original song about food consumption. Courtesy of Georgetown University. Guess who's coming to dinner? You are, but you'…
In this clip from Rigoletto from Mantua, a filmic adaptation of the opera starring Placido Domingo, tenor Vittorio Grigolo as the womanizing Duke of Mantua sings the well known classic c…
Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto " recorded in high definition in the Renaissance splendor of Mantua, Italy, in the actual places and hours of the day specified in the libretto" was broadcast live…
John Mayer Trio, after an introduction by comedian Bill Murray dressed as Elvis on stage, play their hit song "Who Did You Think I Was" for the Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival III co…
On May 5, 2011, Carnegie Hall commemorated its 120th anniversary with an all-star gala concert featuring conductor Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic and special guests pianist Emanu…
In this outtake from James Levine: America's Maestro, James Levine gives an explanation of his unique approach to conducting an orchestra - how he believes in being a "teacher conductor." …
In this outtake from James Levine: America's Maestro, James Levine remembers growing up with a father who led a dance band that broadcast from the Beverly Wilshire Hotel and recalls his firs…
In this outtake from James Levine: America's Maestro, Levine instructs Ed Parks on how to be an Italian operatic Figaro, teaching him how to make the music his own. Please view the origin…
Watch Layla Claire and Paul Appleby perform in the Lindemann Young Artists production of The Bartered Bride, conducted by James Levine, and talk about the experience working with Maestro. Th…
Watch an excerpt from the ballet "The Red Detachment of Women," choreographed by Mark Morris, in the Metropolitan Opera premiere of John Adams's Nixon in China, directed by Peter Sellars and…