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Chekhov for Children
CHEKHOV FOR CHILDREN tells the inspiring story of an ambitious undertaking: the 1979 staging on Broadway of "Uncle Vanya" by New York City 5th and 6th graders, directed by the celebrated writer Phillip Lopate. Using a wealth of never-before-screened student documentary videos...Watch Movie
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Karl Rove, I Love You
It's Election Year during the Bush Administration. Dan Butler is co-starring on Broadway with Alec Baldwin in "Twentieth Century." Butler reluctantly agrees to participate in a documentary on the "unknown supporting actor" when he becomes smitten with the role of a lifetime:...Watch Movie
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Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
In REHEARSAL FOR A SICILIAN TRAGEDY, actor John Turturro takes audiences on a haunting, intimate journey to his maternal homeland of Sicily. There, while exploring the island's vanishing traditions, he is taken under the wing of one of the puppet theater's few remaining...Watch Movie
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Proud Citizen
After winning second place in a playwriting contest Bulgarian Krasimira Stanimirova travels to the rolling hills of Kentucky for the premiere of her auto-biographical, Communist-era play Black Coat. Expecting southern hospitality, Krasi instead finds herself isolated and lonely as she explores...Watch Movie
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André Gregory: Before and After Dinner
ANDRÉ GREGORY: BEFORE AND AFTER DINNER is a wonderful exploration of the life and work of groundbreaking director, actor and artist André Gregory. A witty and often hilariously funny raconteur, Gregory looks back on a career that spanned decades, shattered boundaries and...Watch Movie
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Life After Tomorrow
LIFE AFTER TOMORROW reunites more than forty women who played orphans in the Broadway production of ANNIE and reveals the highs and lows of their experiences as child actresses in a cultural phenomenon. Once the curtain came down, many found it could be a hard-knock-life,...Watch Movie
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Terezin: Resistance and Revival
Hitler used their art, music and creative spirit in an attempt to hide the Holocaust, but in the end, he created a memorial to the very people he despised. This is their true story. Terezin to the Czechs. Theresienstadt to Germans. It was a Nazi concentration camp where some...Watch Movie
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Shakespeare High
Executive produced by Kevin Spacey, SHAKESPEARE HIGH is an inspiring documentary that follows a diverse group of California high school students as they prepare for and compete in an annual Shakespeare Festival, a program that counts many of Hollywood's biggest stars among its...Watch Movie
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The Ontologicial Cowboy
"The theater is about sex." At least according to Richard Foreman, the father of the Ontological Hysterical Theater. THE ONTOLOGICAL COWBOY documents Foreman’s invocation of the "manifest destiny" of the avant-garde theater, King Cowboy Rufus strolling down off San Juan Hill...Watch Movie
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The Fantasticks
Eight times a week, from 1960 to 2002, the Sullivan Street Playhouse in New York City’s Greenwich Village played midwife to a musical theater ritual that attracted theatergoers from across the globe. That show was the legendary and beloved "Fantasticks" and for 42 years and 17,162 performances, a...Watch Movie
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Play in the Gray
PLAY IN THE GRAY is a penetrating, and at times vulnerably raw, portrait of the work, art and emotional lives of the members of All the Kings Men. All the Kings Men is a drag and cabaret inspired theater troupe based out of Boston. Behind the scenes, Katie, Maria, Julee,...Watch Movie
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What If?
"Always remember to play," says Leslee Silverman, the visionary force behind the Manitoba Theatre for Young People, to 10-year-old William. The little boy stands at centre stage, rehearsing an exciting new role, that of Leslee Silverman. Leslee Silverman observes with her customary wisdom and...Watch Movie
