In this program, the Living Theater Company performs two segments from their Mysteries and Smaller Pieces: The Brig Dollar and The Plague. The excerpts are introduced by founder-directors Julian Beck and Judith Malina, who discuss the goals of the work and the ideas of their group with arts critic Jack Kroll. The Living Theater was a well-known repertory company in the late 40s and through the 60s whose work was radical, experimental, and confrontational,...

This video tells the story of Jewish and Dominican teenagers in New York City's Washington Heights, who together with the legendary theater director, Liz Swados, put on a musical about the Dominican rescue of 800 Jews from Hitler's Germany. Award winning filmmakers Peter Miller and Renee Silverman interweave an intimate, behind-the-scenes portrait of the neighborhood with this little-known Holocaust story. Through the young actors' eyes, we are introduced...

Join us for a staging of Peter Arnott's translation of Oedipus at Colonus - the middle play in Sophocles’ Theban Trilogy. Sophocles returns to his most famous character, Oedipus, transforming him from an exiled immigrant to a suppliant who bestows gifts on legendary King Theseus and Athens. Arnott's line-by-line translation, complete with all the chorus odes, gives the fullest emersion to this masterpiece about redemption, immigration, truth, murder,...

A sprained leg threatens to take away Henry's role as the lead character in his school play.

This program examines Bunraku, the classical Japanese puppet art, which uses three-quarters life-sized figures handled by black-clothed manipulators who remain in plain view of the audience. These scenes trace Bunraku from the making of the puppets and the way in which their limbs are articulated, to their costuming and reflections on their relationship to kabuki theater. It includes complete performances of works for Bunraku, as well as commentary...

Let Dick Smith, the creator of the magical special effects for Altered States, The Exorcist, and The Hunger show you how it's done. You'll never have to worry about searching for a Halloween costume again! Using easily available materials, you can transform yourself into any kind of creature that you wish to become.

The Bikini Bottom community theater is on its last days, so when someone starts sabotaging the production of a new play, Detective SpongeBob SquarePants and his new partner Sandy Cheeks step out of the spotlight and into the shadows to discover who is responsible.

When a dead body interrupts the rehearsals for their holiday production of Jack and the Beanstalk, Fairway Players Femi and Charlotte page through letters, emails and police transcripts to identify both the victim and killer before its curtains for their production-permanently. The Christmas season has arrived in Lower Lockwood, and the Fairway Players are busy rehearsing their festive holiday production of Jack and the Beanstalk to raise money for...

Hattie shares new tools for managing anxiety with her friends as they get ready for opening night of the school play.

This video traces the evolution of the theater from ancient Greece to the 20th century. It uses the complex and provocative works or Pirandello to reveal the innovative ways in which modern Italian theater questions illusion and reality.