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More content added to Theatre in Video (database)
November 16th, 2010
More content has been added to Alexander Street Press’s Theatre in Video (available through Research Port). There are now 360 videos totaling 433 hours.
The latest update includes 36 new films from the Broadway Theatre Archive, as well as 5 productions from Bullfrog Films, 4 from Insight Media, and 1 from the BBC.
Performances here include works by Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Wendy Wasserstein, John Cheever, Maxwell Anderson, Lanford Wilson, Terrence McNally, Jean Cocteau, D.H. Lawrence, Conor McPherson, and Clifford Odets, among others.
Featured actors include Frank Langella, Kim Stanley, Blythe Danner, Richard Jenkins, Moses Gunn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jeff Bridges, Charles Durning, Brian Dennehy, Carol Kane, Ingrid Bergman, Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon, Stephen Sondheim, Brian Cox, Sigourney Weaver, Eli Wallach, Samuel L. Jackson, Sissy Spacek, Diane Wiest, Robert Prosky, and William Hurt.
There are also interviews with important figures in the development of Black Theatre, such as Ossie Davis, Joseph Papp, Lloyd Richards, Douglas Turner Ward, Amiri Baraka, and Derek Walcott.
Production titles include:
*Eccentricities Of A Nightingale, Tennessee Williams
*The Last Mile, Terrence McNally
*June Moon, George S. Kaufman, Ring Lardner
*Paradise Lost, Clifford Odets
*The Prince of Homburg, Heinrich Von Kleist
*The Sorrows of Gin, John Cheever, Wendy Wasserstein
*Ten Blocks on the Camino Real, Tennessee Williams
*The Merchant of Venice: A Taste of Shakespeare,
*First Breeze of Summer, Leslie Lee
*The Human Voice, Jean Cocteau
*The Widowing Of Mrs. Holroyd, D.H. Lawrence
You can see all of the new titles on the What’s New page — http://ativ.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew/letter/all/page/4/?isnew=true
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