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1) Oslo
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"Oslo tells the surprising true story of the back-channel talks, unlikely friendships, and quiet heroics that led to the 1993 Oslo Accords between the Israelis and Palestinians" --Back cover.
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Oscar winner Meryl Streep stars in this delightful "music hall" adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Also starring Emmy winner Debbie Allen, Mark Linn-Baker (My Favorite Year) and Betty Aberlin (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood), Alice at the Palace is an entertaining and shrewdly conceived retelling of the Lewis Carroll classics with all of the beloved characters - from the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat to...
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The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces Beckett's artistic life through his prose, plays, and poetry. Billie Whitelaw, Jack McGowran, and Patrick Magee-Beckett's great dramatic interpreters-appear in selected extracts from the plays; Beckett specialist David Warrilow narrates a variety of texts.
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Walter Matthau heads the cast of this television re-creation of Clifford Odets' 1935 hit Broadway play, the first full-length work performed on the commercial stage by the legendary Group Theatre. This portrait of a Jewish family in a Bronx tenement perfectly captures the spirit of the Depression years and is suffused with details of character and place that combine to be affecting even now. The Bergers, burdened by financial difficulties, have taken...
8) Freeman
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This drama by Phillip Hayes Dean, author of The Sty of the Blind Pig, deals with the sad division between what a man hopes for and what he achieves. In the title role, Dick Anthony Williams portrays a naïve, ambitious, recklessly optimistic man who is not understood by those closest to him and who finds himself in difficulty because of his unrealistic hopes. Directed by Lloyd Richards and featuring Lou Gossett as a successful doctor and community...
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Attention must be paid to this abbreviated but superb 1966 television adaptation by Arthur Miller of his Pulitzer Prize - winning modern tragedy - starring the incomparable Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock, re-creating their original Broadway roles as the Lomans. In a career-defining performance, Cobb portrays the suffering Willy Loman - the middle-aged man at the end of his emotional rope - with Dunnock equally impressive as his patient wife, Linda....
10) Scarecrow
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In a 17th-century Massachusetts town, a scarecrow is magically transformed into a man and charged with the mission of destroying true love. Spectacular performances by two-time Oscar nominee Gene Wilder (Young Frankenstein, The Producers) and Tony Award winner Blythe Danner (Butterflies Are Free). Also starring Norman Lloyd and Will Geer (The Waltons).
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Love, longing, jealousy, aspiration, desperation, fear, and betrayal-these age-old staples of classic drama have seldom been better illustrated than in this tragic masterpiece. Ibsen's tale of an aging builder reaching for love while clinging to a career on the verge of collapse is astonishing in its power.
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Jason Robards Jr. became an overnight star with his indelible performance as the glad-handing, doom-ridden Hickey in the legendary 1956 Circle in the Square revival of Eugene O'Neill's towering masterpiece (first staged in 1939). In his harrowing drama, O'Neill shines a harsh but compassionate spotlight on the failed lives, empty hopes, and perpetual pipe dreams of an assortment of down-and-out denizens of a seedy saloon, set in New York in 1912....
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Originally produced in 1971 by the estimable Negro Ensemble Company, and hailed by Time magazine as one of the best plays of the year, Phillip Hayes Dean's powerful drama is about an uprooted black family (mother, daughter, uncle) living in Chicago during the time that civil rights leaders were starting to organize protest marches in the South. The family members essentially accept the old values and cherish what they love, while made uncomfortable...
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With his trademark unrelenting honesty and conviction, Arthur Miller examines a major Holocaust issue: the failure to assume responsibility and the consequent moral and social guilt of those who refuse to fight evil. Set in a detention room in Vichy, France, during the 1942 German occupation, a number of people have been rounded up and are awaiting interrogation before being sent to concentration camps. It is soon obvious that they are Jews with false...
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Five-time Tony Award winner Julie Harris re-creates her 1972 award-winning Broadway portrayal in this powerful and touching look at the final 17 years in the life of Mary Todd Lincoln, widow to the martyred president. Based on real events, the production casts a sad and sympathetic light onto this frighteningly complicated woman. Mary Lincoln scavenges desperately for money, loses a cherished son to consumption, is branded a lunatic and committed...
17) Glass Menagerie
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After what producer David Susskind called "the longest wooing for a part in a lifetime of dealing with stars," four-time Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn made her television dramatic debut as the indomitable, overbearing matriarch, Amanda Wingfield, in Tennessee Williams' poignant 1945 memory play. The Glass Menagerie portrays a mother whose preoccupation with the past as a Southern belle and unrealistic dreams for her children's futures threaten to...
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This post - Civil War court-martial drama focuses on the trial of a Confederate officer who ran the notorious prisoner-of-war camp in Andersonville, Georgia, where over 14,000 Union prisoners died from disease, starvation, and neglect. The defendant, Captain Henry Wirz, justified his actions with a plea that he was only following orders. He believed he was relieved of any personal responsibility because he was performing his duty. The Army prosecutor...
19) Double Solitaire
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Under pressure to reaffirm their marriage vows, two middle-aged people explore their dreams and the present direction of their lives. "Infinitely perceptive and deeply touching" (Newsday), this play features a stellar cast including Emmy winners Richard Crenna and Susan Clark, Emmy nominees Irene Tedrow and Harold Gould, and Norma Crane.
20) Lemonade
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This is a play about the fantasies, inhibitions, and dreams of two lonely matrons who set up competing lemonade stands along a jammed highway. James Prideaux's Lemonade incorporates comedy and tragedy, a touch of the bizarre, and ultimately, a sincere compassion in both women.