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Kevin Kline’s Tony Award®-winning performance in Noël Coward’s Present Laughter, first produced in 1942 with Coward himself in the leading role, comes to PBS Friday, November 3, 2017 at 9/8c ...
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George S. Kaufman and Edna’s Ferber’s 1927 comedy spotlights a famous, eccentric theater family reminiscent of the Barrymores, so there’s no shortage of hams in this family tree. There’s Fanny Cavendish, the matriarch; her daughter Julie, the reigning queen of Broadway; and Julie’s daughter Gwen, who scandalizes the family by considering — gasp! – ...
Fred Graham and Lilli Vanessi, the central characters in Cole Porter’s witty musical Kiss Me, Kate, are ex-spouses starring in a musical based on The Taming of the Shrew. Fred’s the egotistical director, producer, and star of The Shrew (he plays Petruchio), and his glamorous stage-and-screen star ex-wife Lilli is proud and haughty (like Katherine i...
Don’t you love farce? There’s sex, sardines, and door slamming in Michael Frayn’s backstage comedy Noises Off, which follows a bedraggled British acting troupe touring in a silly sex farce, Nothing On. We witness their calamitous dress rehearsals, disastrous performances, and petty personal dramas both onstage and backstage, complete with missed cu...
The quintessential backstage musical, 42nd Street has it all: spectacular song and dance numbers, snappy dialogue, the requisite show-within-a-show, and iconic characters including über-diva Dorothy Brock. A fading star with a titanic ego, Dorothy is cast in director Julian Marsh’s new musical, Pretty Lady, because her sugar daddy Abner Dillon is b...
James Kirkwood, who co-authored the Pulitzer Prize-winning book of A Chorus Line, also penned a comedy called Legends! It follows Sylvia Glenn and Leatrice Monsee, two feuding screen queens of a certain age who have the chance to make a comeback if they star in a shady producer’s new show: Star Wars: The Play. Kirkwood’s play, filled with name call...
Oct 27, 2017 · Official Website: http://to.pbs.org/2gHPqPV | #BroadwayonPBSKevin Kline’s Tony Award®-winning performance in Noël Coward’s Present Laughter, first produced i...
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It’s nauseating,” Kevin Kline declares as hilariously egotistical actor Garry Essendine in Noel Coward’s Present Laughter, airing Friday, November 3 at 9 p.m. on GREAT PERFORMANCES as part ...
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