The story of Oedipus' gradual discovery of his primal crime, killing his father and marrying his mother, filmed by the famed British theatrical director Sir Tyrone Guthrie. This elegant version of Sophocles' play adds a brilliant stroke: the actors wear masks just as the Greeks did in the playwright's day.

One of Shakespeare's greatest plays, The Winter's Tale, though written at the same period as The Tem...

Two young swordsmen, Akado Suzunosuke and Tatsumaki Rainoshin, arrive at the city of Edo in their qu...
A talented ensemble cast bring Euripides masterpiece to life. The Bacchae (also called The Bacchants...

Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey, two elderly residents at a nursing home for senior citizens, strike...

The National Theatre's live theatrical production of Tony Kushner's two-part play 'Angels In America...

America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, ...

The Empty King created a mythical figure and a whole world from grotesque, archetypal images. The dr...

The story behind the translation and performance of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in Klingon.

A struggling actress becomes entangled in an abusive relationship with her idol at a cult-like New Y...

Based on the short story by Anton Chekhov, Kama Ginkas’ astounding reimagining highlights and builds...

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...

Animation without dialogue, set with excerpts from Lithuanian folk songs, which tells a traditional ...

In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis ...

A group of teenagers living in a housing project in the outskirts of Paris rehearse a scene from Mar...

In 1960s Tokyo, Gonda owns a bar in which the gay, cross-dresser, and trans scenes meet. Gonda is in...

45 year old Don Valter is a traditional priest who still wears an old fashioned black tunic out of n...

After escaping from her homeland and now abandoned by the man she loves, Medea must find strength fr...