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A spectacular, breathtaking, high-tech musical production based on the masterpiece by Leo Tolstoy. The dramatic and tumultuous love story between the married ANNA KARENINA and a dashing military officer, Alexey Vronsky, takes place amidst the glitter and luxury of the Russian nobility in the second half of the 19th century. The musical’s characters struggle with overwhelming of love and betrayal, passion and duty, hope and desperation. Although...
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"Comedy legend Carol Burnett tells the hilarious behind-the-scenes story of her iconic weekly variety series, The Carol Burnett Show. Who but Carol Burnett herself has the timing, talent, and wit to pull back the curtain on the Emmy-Award winning show that made television history for eleven glorious seasons? In Such Good Company delves into little-known stories of the guests, sketches and antics that made the show legendary, as well as some favorite...
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Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, TO YOU, THE BIRDIE! (Phèdre) is The Wooster Group's **OBIE**-winning production of Paul Schmidt's version of Racine's Phèdre, re-set in a mobile modernist landscape of sliding plexiglass panels, omnipresent monitors, and hidden cameras. Winner of 2002 **OBIE** and **BESSIE** awards for Best Production and Best Performer (Kate Valk)! *An "exhilarating dissection of Racine’s tragedy"* - **The New York Times**
4) Hamlet
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A film of the ground-breaking Royal Exchange Theater production of Hamlet, with renowned British actress Maxine Peake in the title role. *"Peake's delicate ferocity, her particular mixture of concentration and lightness, ensure that you to follow her whenever she appears." - Susannah Clapp, **The Guardian***
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Matt Rife is a 26 year old veteran of standup comedy. Beginning at the age of 15, Matt has developed an extremely unique perspective on everything from women, self awareness, race,and some of the worlds darker issues. And he delivers these ideas with a quick witted, almost charmingly naive performance that you don't want to miss.
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MATTHEW BOURNE’S THE CAR MAN is one of modern dance’s most thrilling and entertaining shows and a signature production for New Adventures. First seen in 2000, when it won the Evening Standard Award for “Musical Event of the Year”, it has proved to be a smash-hit in the UK and around the world. This recording for Sky Arts was made at Sadler’s Wells during the production’s most recent revival. The show is loosely based on Bizet’s popular...
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MATTHEW BOURNE’S ROMEO + JULIET is a passionate and contemporary re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic story of love and conflict. Set in the not-too-distant future in ‘The Verona Institute’ and mysteriously confined against their will by a society that seeks to divide and crush their youthful spirits, our two young lovers must follow their hearts as they risk everything to be together. A timeless story about repressed emotions and teenage...
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From the mind of award-winning director Julie Taymor (The Lion King on Broadway, Frida, Titus) comes a Shakespeare adaptation like none other, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Rich with Taymor's trademark creativity, this immersive and darkly poetic cinematic experience brings the play's iconic fairies, spells and hallucinatory lovers to life. Filmed at her sold-out stage production with cinematography by Rodrigo Prieto (Argo, Frida) and music by Academy...
10) King Lear
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Yury Butusov's brilliant, award-winning staging of KING LEAR tells us a story in which the collapse of a family, the collapse of a country, and the collapse of an individual are all connected to each other. In Shakespeare's classic work, Lear imagined himself to be God's equal - and so he divided his kingdom between his daughters just to see what would happen. Featuring four time Golden Mask Award-winning actor Konstantin Raikin as Lear.
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MATTHEW BOURNE'S CINDERELLA is a thrilling and evocative love story told in dance. A reinterpretation of the classic fairy tale, it features heart-stopping choreography and vivid, truthful characters. Originally mounted in 1997 but recreated as a completely fresh production for its most recent run, this is one of New Adventures’ most popular and beloved creations. Set in London during the Second World War, the drama features Cinderella and a dashing...
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Rimas Tuminas' adaptation of two novels by Grigory Kanovich, is a dreamy, ruminative, comedic road trip, centering around the parlous fortunes of Eastern European Jews at the start of the 20th century. A period piece that carries a modern conscious, Smile Upon Us, is a Becket-like "Waiting for Jehovah" featuring three towering figures from the Russian stage, Viktor Sukhorukov, Aleksei Guskov and Vladimir Simonov.
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Igor Sergeev and Vladimir Kuznetsov’s multi-award nominated production of Ivan Vyrypaev’s thought-provoking and timely “Iran Conference” takes place at a symposium in Denmark where influential public figures and scientists gather to discuss the current clash of modern Western liberal ideology with traditional religious consciousness and way of life. An attempt to present reports prepared by the lecturers quickly transforms into a lively conversation...
16) Dead Souls
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Roman Kocherzhevsky’s endlessly inventive reimagining of Gogol’s classic Russian poem shakes off a layer of dust from the revered work to help us answer questions we all face today. It doesn’t matter whether Kocherzhevsky has dressed his actors in waterproof trench coats or embroidered tailcoats, furnished the stage with delicate antiquities or Danish modern. In the end, as Gogol himself asks of us, “Isn’t there some part of Chichikov in...
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ALLAH MADE ME FUNNY features live stand-up performances by Azhar Usman, Preacher Moss and Mohammed Amer as well as behind the scenes sequences highlighting the individual comedians. The trio poke fun at Muslims and non-Muslims alike and their comedic material plays with stereotypes to invite people to think outside of their fixed cultural perceptions.
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Classic performances from America’s top comics….before any of us knew who they were. With nothing more than a punch line and a dream, these (then) struggling young artists transformed themselves into comedy legends. Here is a rare opportunity to see some of the world’s greatest African American stars perform the routines that would someday make them Kings of Comedy.
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A feature-length documentary, exploring the growing musical and social phenomenon of chanting, MANTRA: SOUNDS INTO SILENCE shares the stories of people who are finding healing and a sense of inner peace by singing mantras together. It’s a film about spirituality not religion, about people reconnecting with their true selves and with others. The film shows that chanting can have beneficial effects on the brain and in turn, on practitioners’ well-being....
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