A Midsummer Night's Dream
A feuding fairy King and Queen of the forest cross paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe of actors trying to rehearse a play. As their dispute grows, the magical royal couple meddle with mortal lives leading to love triangles, mistaken identities and transformations… with hilarious, but dark consequences.
Passing Strange
A young black artist leaves his Los Angeles digs and travels to Europe to find himself. A theatrical stage production of the original Broadway musical.
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
The parallel lives of writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-83): two friends, two geniuses who, while creating sublime works, were haunted by the ghosts of the past, the shadow of constant doubt, the demon of addictions and the blinding, deceptive glare of success.
Royal Shakespeare Company: Hamlet
Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home he finds his world is utterly changed, his certainties smashed and his home a foreign land. Struggling to understand his place in a new world order he faces a stark choice. Submit, or rage against the injustice of his new reality. Simon Godwin directs Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet in Shakespeare's searing tragedy. As relevant today as when it was written, Hamlet confronts each of us with the mirror of our own mortality in an imperfect world. Hamlet played in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon until throughout summer 2016.
King Lear
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
As You Like It
Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden - set in 19th-century Japan.
Get Over It
When Berke Landers, a popular high school basketball star, gets dumped by his life-long girlfriend, Allison, he soon begins to lose it. But with the help of his best friend Felix's sister Kelly, he follows his ex into the school's spring musical. Thus ensues a love triangle loosely based upon Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", where Berke is only to find himself getting over Allison and beginning to fall for Kelly.
Noah
Travel with Noah as he fulfills God’s wish, even amidst seemingly impossible odds and the scrutiny of onlookers. The Bible comes to life in jaw-dropping scale as Noah leads live animals inside the Ark – with set design towers four stories above the stage!
Twentieth Century
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
Das fliegende Klassenzimmer
A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school. United with his new peers, he gets involved in a heated rivalry with a group of students from a neighboring school.
Venus in Fur
An enigmatic actress may have a hidden agenda when she auditions for a part in a misogynistic writer's play.
The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
As a group of university students go out for a night on the town, a sophomore known only as "The Girl with Black Hair" experiences a series of surreal encounters with the local nightlife – all the while unaware of the romantic longings of "Senpai", a senior student who has been creating increasingly fantastic and contrived reasons to run into her in an effort to win her heart.
Me to Play
As their bodies give way to Parkinson's disease, two New York actors put their hearts into one final Off-Broadway production of Beckett's "Endgame," the play that posits, "there's nothing funnier than unhappiness."
Madea on the Run
In trouble with the local authorities, Mabel Simmons, notoriously known as Madea, is on the run from the law. With no place to turn, she moves in with her friend Bam who is recovering from surgery. Unbeknownst to Bam however, Madea is only using the "concerned friend" gag as a way to hide out from the police.
Shakespeare's Globe: Romeo and Juliet
Dominic Dromgoole’s production brings refreshing clarity to one of Shakespeare’s most famous and best-loved tragedies, drawing out the contemporary relevance of this passionate teenage love story. Ellie Kendrick, a truly youthful Juliet, and Adetomiwa Edun, a boyish Romeo, head an excellent cast whose period costumes point to the timelessness of parental disapproval, adolescent temperament, rivalry and violence. Filmed before a live audience at Shakespeare’s Globe in the heart of London, its intimate and atmospheric setting adds immediacy and vitality to the humour and passion of Shakespeare’s verse. Filmed in High Definition and true surround sound.
'As You Like It' at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Thea Sharrock's irresistible 2009 production of Shakespeare's popular romantic comedy stirs wit, sentiment, intrigue and love into a charming confection which challenges the traditional rules of romance. At its heart, a feisty but feminine Rosalind (Naomi Frederick), in love with the endearingly naïve Orlando (Jack Laskey), uses her disguise as Ganymede to counsel him playfully in the art of wooing. Distraction is provided by Dominic Rowan, a remarkably funny Touchstone, and Tim McMullan, whose sonorous tones are perfectly suited to the lugubrious wit of Jaques. Filmed in High Definition and true surround sound.
Royal Shakespeare Company: Cymbeline
Britain is in crisis. An ineffectual Queen Cymbeline rules over a divided dystopian Britain. Consumed with grief at the death of two of her children, Cymbeline's judgment is clouded. When Innogen, the only living heir, marries her sweetheart Posthumus in secret, an enraged Cymbeline banishes him. Behind the throne, a power-hungry figure plots to seize power by murdering them both. In exile Innogen's husband is tricked into believing she has been unfaithful to him and in an act of impulsive jealousy begins a scheme to have her murdered. Warned of the danger, Innogen runs away from court in disguise and begins a journey fraught with danger that will eventually reunite Cymbeline with a long-lost heir and reconcile the young lovers.
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal. Urgent concerns of scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil are embedded within this thrilling and deeply disturbing tale.
Hamlet
Hamlet captures the Almeida Theatre's 2017 acclaimed production of William Shakespeare's great play, recorded as-live in its West End transfer on the stage of London's Harold Pinter Theatre. Robert Icke's innovative modern-dress production, featuring Andrew Scott, Juliet Stevenson, Angus Wright and Jessica Brown Findlay, has been widely acclaimed as a dazzlingly intelligent, forcefully contemporary staging. The Evening Standard hailed Andrew Scott's 'career-defining performance... he makes the most famous speeches feel fresh and unpredictable.'
Cyrano
A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a devoted friend, the luminous Roxanne, Cyrano has yet to declare his feelings for her—and Roxanne has fallen in love, at first sight, with Christian.
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Nicholas Hytner
Director
Hammed Animashaun
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Bottom
Kit Young
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Lysander
Oliver Chris
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Oberon / Theseus
Gwendoline Christie
as
Titania / Hippolyta
Spike Lee
Director
De'Adre Aziza
as
Edwina / Marianna / Sudabey
Eisa Davis
as
Mother
Colman Domingo
as
Mr. Franklin / Joop / Mr. Venus
Daniel Breaker
as
Youth
Karl Malden
as
Mitch
Truman Capote
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Self
Sam Waterston
as
Tom Wingfield
Robin Lough
Director
Clarence Smith
as
Claudius
Paapa Essiedu
as
Hamlet
Cyril Nri
as
Polonius
Florence Pugh
as
Cordelia
Emma Thompson
as
Goneril
Anthony Hopkins
as
Lear
Emily Watson
as
Regan
Kenneth Branagh
Director
Kevin Kline
as
Jaques
Bryce Dallas Howard
as
Rosalind
Alfred Molina
as
Touchstone
Mila Kunis
as
Basin
Kirsten Dunst
as
Kelly Woods
Zoe Saldana
as
Maggie
Howard Hawks
Director
Anita Brown
as
Black Stage Showgirl
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
as
George Washington Jones
Walter Connolly
as
Oliver Webb
Bobby Barber
as
Sign Painter
Ulrich Noethen
as
Dr. Johann 'Justus' Bökh
Hauke Diekamp
as
Jonathan Trotz
Anja Kling
as
Kathrin
Masaaki Yuasa
Director
Hiroshi Kamiya
as
Gakuensai jimukyoku-chô
Kana Hanazawa
as
Kurokami no otome
Mugihito
as
Rihaku-san
John Christopher Jones
as
Self / Clov
Byron Jennings
as
Self / Nagg
Joe Grifasi
as
Self / Theatrical Director
Tyler Perry
Director
Michael O'Hagan
as
Montague
Tim McMullan
as
Jaques
Dominic Rowan
as
Touchstone
Graham Turner
as
Belarius
Hiran Abeysekera
as
Posthumus
Danny Boyle
Director
Naomie Harris
as
Elizabeth Lavenza, Victor's fiancée
Benedict Cumberbatch
as
The Creature / Victor Frankenstein
David Rintoul
as
Ghost / Player King
Andrew Scott
as
Hamlet
Peter Wight
as
Polonius
Joe Wright
Director
Peter Dinklage
as
Cyrano
Bashir Salahuddin
as
Le Bret
Haley Bennett
as
Roxanne
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Roman Polanski
