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1) On Broadway
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
As live performances on Broadway start up again after an unprecedented absence of eighteen months, an all-star cast tells the inside story of the last time Broadway theater came back from the brink. On Broadway shows how this revival helped save New York City, thanks to innovative work, new attention to inclusion, and the sometimes uneasy balance between art and commerce. Legends of the stage and screen, including Hugh Jackman, Helen Mirren, Christine...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Comedy veterans, Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza, use their insider status and invite over 100 of their closest friends to reminisce, analyze, deconstruct and deliver their own versions of the world's dirtiest joke. The joke is an old burlesque routine too extreme to be performed in public. It's called The Aristocrats.
3) Noises off
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A travelling theater group has so much going on behind the curtain, they almost ruin their performance in front of the curtain.
4) Fences
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A black garbage collector named Troy Maxson in 1950s Pittsburgh is bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues, Maxson is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the early days of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.
Series
Criterion collection volume 141
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Description
A story which revolves around theater in 19th century Paris, and the love between the mime Debureau and the beautiful courtesan Garance who is also loved by an aristocrat, a criminal, and an actor.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
For over three decades, there's been one singular sensation: A Chorus Line. This groundbreaking hit musical inspired by the emotional lives of dancers during the audition process. Now the story comes full circle and offers a revealing, unprecedented look at the auditions for the Broadway revival of the perennial classic. The music, the moves and the real-life drama, bringing you closer to the footlights than you ever thought possible.
Publisher
distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A night at the opera: A New York scandal, a riot on a ship, and an evening of insanity in a concert hall are some of the problems resulting from Groucho's outrageous business schemes. The goal-- to bring Milan's finest opera stars to Manhattan.
Arsenic and old lace: A drama critic about to marry discovers insanity runs in his family.
Father of the bride: Chaos reigns when the beautiful daughter of a family casually announces her plans to marry....
13) Fosse/Verdon
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Bob Fosse is a visionary filmmaker and one of theater's most influential choreographers and directors. Gwen Verdon is the greatest Broadway dancer of all time. Fosse/Verdon will tell the story of these two brilliant, complicated individuals and the love they shared, the art they created, and the price they paid in the pursuit of greatness.
14) I love Melvin
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Melvin Hoover promises his true love Judy LeRoy that he will use his job at Look magazine to transform her from a Broadway chorus girl into a cover girl, but can he?
15) Burlesque
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Ali, a small-town girl from Iowa, escapes her past by moving to Los Angeles where she gets a job as a cocktail waitress at The Burlesque Lounge, eventually making her way from the bar to the stage with her larger than life voice.
Series
Criterion collection volume 462
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew who feels compelled to leave the country in order to survive the German occupation during WWII. His wife Marion is an actress and a member of the Resistance who goes on to direct the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater alive by rehearsing a new play. She hires Bernard Granger for the leading role. The troupe believes that the show must go on no matter the circumstances. But Lucas never left the country,...
17) Voodoo Macbeth
Publisher
Lightyear Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Before Citizen Kane and The War of the Worlds, leading Broadway actress Rose McClendon and producer John Houseman convince a gifted but untested 20-year-old Orson Welles to direct Shakespeare's Macbeth with an all-Black cast in Harlem. Reimagined in a Haitian setting, this revolutionary 1936 production, which came to be known as "Voodoo Macbeth," would change the world forever. But the road to opening night proves to be a difficult one. Welles and...
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