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  • National Theatre Live: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Broadcast Live in HD)

    Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter, The Woman in Black), Joshua McGuire (The Hour) and David Haig (Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Witness for the Prosecution) star in Tom Stoppard’s brilliantly funny situation comedy, broadcast live from The Old Vic theatre in London.
     
    David Leveaux’s new production marks the 50th anniversary of the play that made a young Tom Stoppard’s name overnight.
     
    Against the backdrop of Hamlet, two hapless minor characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, take centre stage.  As the young double act stumble their way in and out of the action of Shakespeare’s iconic drama, they become increasingly out of their depth as their version of the story unfolds.

  • Angels in America Part 1, Millennium Approaches

    America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. 

    Andrew Garfield (Silence, Hacksaw Ridge) plays Prior Walter along with a cast including Denise Gough (People, Places and Things), Nathan Lane (The Producers), James McArdle (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and Russell Tovey (The Pass). 

    This new staging of Tony Kushner’s multi-award winning two-part play is directed by Olivier and Tony award winning director Marianne Elliott (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and War Horse). 

    Part Two: Perestroika, will also be broadcast on August 16.
    Run time: about 3 hours and 40 minutes with two 15-minute intervals. 

  • Angels in America Part II, Perestroika

    Part 2, Perestroika 

    America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. 

     

    Andrew Garfield (Silence, Hacksaw Ridge) plays Prior Walter along with a cast including Denise Gough (People, Places and Things), Nathan Lane (The Producers), James McArdle (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and Russell Tovey (The Pass). 

    This new staging of Tony Kushner’s multi-award winning two-part play is directed by Olivier and Tony award winning director Marianne Elliott (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and War Horse). Part One: Millennium Approaches was first performed at the National Theatre in 1992 and was followed by Part Two: Perestroika the following year.

  • MET OPERA: Carmen (Broadcast in HD) 17

    Richard Eyre’s hit production stars Elīna Garanča as the seductive gypsy of the title, opposite Roberto Alagna as the obsessed Don José. Carmen “is about sex, violence, and racism—and its corollary: freedom,” the director says about Bizet’s drama. “It is one of the inalienably great works of art. It’s sexy, in every sense. And I think it should be shocking.” Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Production: Richard Eyre; Barbara Frittoli, Elīna Garanča, Roberto Alagna, Mariusz Kwiecien

    Original transmission date: Saturday, January 16, 2010
    Runtime: 3 hours

  • Colin Hay

    As the singer, guitarist, and main songwriter of Australia’s Men At Work, Colin Hay was responsible for penning several of the quirkiest pop hits of the early ’80s including “Overkill”, “(The Land) Down Under”, “It’s A Mistake” and “Who Can IT Be Now” Although forever associated with “the land down under”, Hay hailed from Scotland but relocated to Australia in 1967. After Men At Work’s rise, demise and a period of reflection, Hay embarked on a solo career, debuting in 1987 with Looking For Jack (the title of which supposedly referred to a brief encounter Hay had with actor Jack Nicholson). Hay continued to release critically acclaimed solo material with regularity throughout the 2000’s, including Wayfaring Sons, Peaks & Valleys, Topanga, 1998’s Transcendental Highway, 2007’s Are You Lookin’ at Me?, American Sunshine, 2011’s Gathering Mercury, which was followed in 2015 by Next Year People. 

    Hay contributed “I Just Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You” to the soundtrack of Garden State and has had roles in other cult movies such as Cosi and television shows such as Scrubs, The Larry Sanders Show, JAG, The Mick Molloy Show and What About Brian. Hay has also been a member of Ringo Starr’s eighth and tenth All-Starr Bands. In 2017 Hay recorded and released his 13th solo album, Fierce Mercy, an epic, cinematic step forward from the singer-songwriter who has become increasingly known for his wonderfully witty and intimate performances as well as his ever-present great voice and incisive song writing . 

    The range of artists who have chosen to cite him as a muse is vast and varied and include the likes of Metallica and The Lumineers, reflecting his continuing relevance and broad appeal.

    Presented by UMT presents

  • You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown

    Dates: 6/23: 2pm & 8pm;  6/24: 2pm & 8pm;  6/25: 3pm;  6/30: 2pm & 8pm;  7/1: 2pm & 8pm; 7/2: 3pm

    Shadow Lawn Stage, the professional theatre of Monmouth University, will present the 50th anniversary production of the enchanting musical, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown this June with 10 performances at the historic Woods Theatre on the university’s campus. Based on the famed comic strip “Peanuts” by Charles Schulz, the musical tells the story of some typical days in the life of Charlie Brown. From running after the school bus to spying the cute little red-haired girl at lunch, Charlie deals with the fun and frustrations of life with his friends Lucy, Linus and Schroeder; his kid sister Sally; and his faithful companion, Snoopy. The original production featured Gary Burghoff (Radar in the MASH series). The 1999 revival won 2 Tony Awards – for Roger Bart as Snoopy and Kristen Chenoweth as Sally –  and the Drama Desk award for “Best Revival of a Musical”.

    The songs of the show, written by Clark Gesner, reveal the dreams and goals of the characters: Lucy explores her feelings for Schroeder while he plays Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” (“it’s always been my dream that I’d marry a man that plays the piano”); Linus sings and dances with his security blanket in “My Blanket and Me”, and even Snoopy sings the praises of his favorite time of day in “Suppertime!”  For the revival, Andrew Lippa added a new song that had Sally searching for “A New Philosophy” (is it “Why are you telling me?” or “I can’t stand it!”?)  As the day comes to a close, the whole gang reflects on the things that bring them “Happiness”.
    Directed by Maurice J. Moran, the Shadow Lawn production features a range of actors: professional members of Actors’ Equity Association, MU students and alumni, and new rising stars.

  • National Theatre Live: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

    Sonia Friedman Productions presents Imelda Staunton (Gypsy, Vera Drake, the Harry Potter films), Conleth Hill (Game Of Thrones, The Producers), Luke
    Treadaway (A Street Cat Named Bob, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
    Night-Time    , The Hollow Crown) and Imogen Poots (A Long Way
    Down    , Jane Eyre) in James Macdonald’s critically acclaimed, 5 star
    production of Edward Albee’s landmark play, broadcast live to cinemas from the
    Harold Pinter Theatre, London.

    In the early hours of the morning on the
    campus of an American college, Martha, much to her husband George’s
    displeasure, has invited the new professor and his wife to their home for some
    after-party drinks. As the alcohol flows and dawn approaches, the young couple
    are drawn into George and Martha’s toxic games until the evening reaches its
    climax in a moment of devastating truth-telling.

    Run Time: 210 minutes

  • World Cinema Series: Even the Rain

    (Director:
    Iciar Bollain 2010) Spanish director Sebastián, his
    executive producer Costa and all his crew are in Bolivia, in the Cochabamba
    area, to shoot a motion picture about Christopher Columbus, his first
    explorations and the way the Spaniards treated the Indians at the time. Costa
    has chosen this place because the budget of the film is tight and here he can
    hire supernumeraries, local actors and extras on the cheap. Things go more or
    less smoothly until a conflict erupts over the privatization of the water
    supply. The trouble is that one of the local actors is a leading activist in
    the protest movement.

    Not
    Rated (103 minutes)

     

  • World Cinema Series: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

    (Director:
    Mira Nair, 2012) A young Pakistani man is chasing corporate success on Wall
    Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a
    hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family’s homeland.

    Rated R (130 minutes)

  • World Cinema Series: Mountains May Depart

    (Director:
    Zhangke Jia, 2015) China, 1999. Childhood friends Liangzi and Zhang are both in
    love with Tao, the town beauty. Tao eventually decides to marry the wealthier
    Zhang. They soon have a son he names Dollar… From China to Australia, the
    lives, loves, hopes and disillusions of a family over two generations in a society
    changing at breakneck speed.

    Not Rated (131 minutes)