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- San Francisco's A.C.T. company presents Shakespeare's classic take with a Commedia dell'Arte flair, as if it were a inn yard performance by a traveling company.
- In middle age, inventor Stephen Minch is happy enough with his life, despite the fact that he has never risen to prominence even though his innovations have made others rich. His wife Martha, however, resents his lack of drive, his complacency, his willingness to live hand-to-mouth, and his ever-present and ever-annoying sidekick Hanus Wicks. Confronted by the evidence of Martha's years-long regret over how their lives together have turned out, Stephen decides to use his newest invention to repair her unhappiness. The new invention: a time machine.
- Eugene O'Neill's trilogy of plays inspired by Aeschylus' Oresteia. Set near the end of the American Civil War, the action follows the turmoil of the Mannon family and its myriad psychological torments.
- A collection of ten vignettes by Tennessee Williams offering various viewpoints on life, love and death. The reference to "Camino Real" is allegorical, and represents the journey of life.
- William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the characters drift in and out of the bar and each other's lives, giving voice to Saroyan's philosophies as they randomly comment about the impending world war, the beauty of art, and traditional notions of good and evil. At least one of the relationships stands a chance of enduring: a brawny innocent named Tom is falling in love with a vulnerable young prostitute named Kitty. Saroyan himself is heard reciting the play's prologue.
- "The Trial of the Moke" is about the first black man to graduates from West Point. Flipper is framed for embezzlement by his fellow cadets to drive him away. But Flipper wasn't going anywhere until he cleared his name.
- San Francisco Chinatown tour operator Fred Eng hides his contempt for the tourists while dealing with the uproar that occurs within his oddball family after his dying father reveals he's hiding a second wife.
- Vignettes of monologues regarding African American history.
- Cornelius "Con" Melody is an Irish tavern keeper in New England who lives in reverence of his former days as a nobleman and decorated officer in the British army during the Napoleonic wars. Impoverished now, he struts about in his uniform and plots to make money by manipulating the love of his daughter for the son of a wealthy manufacturer. His daughter sees through his façade and his chicanery and begins to plot for herself.
- This movie is Wendy Wasserstein's humorous love letter to the theatre and features three generations of actresses in three different eras. Talk show host Charlie Rose also makes an appearance.
- Producer-director Glenn Jordan brought together two Tennessee Williams plays, written twenty years apart, that examine the theme of isolation with searching clarity. The joint presentation, entitled "Dragon Country," features the world premiere of "I Can't Imagine Tomorrow," starring Kim Stanley and William Redfield, and a much earlier work, "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen," starring Lois Smith and Alan Mixon. Together, the dramas delve into "a land of endured but unendurable pain, where each one is so absorbed, deafened, blinded by his own journey across it, he sees, he looks for, no one else crawling across it with him."
- A coming-of-age story involving a brother and sister at crossroads in their lives as they must choose to make lives for themselves or continue to cater to the needs of another sibling who has always lived in a world of mental retardation.
- Traces the British musical from the stages of London to its indelible mark on the Broadway theatre and our hearts and culture in the twenty-first century.
- Two "rats" fight for survival and control in a baby's crib in a ghetto apartment in the city. The lessons learned apply to all of us in the hectic cutthroat world of today.
- Ancient Israelite dramas from the Old Testament are brought to life by director Jeff Barker, head of the theater department at Northwestern College, Iowa. "The Sacred Stage" follows the adaptation of some of the most disturbing stories of the ancient world into a gritty rock musical, and explores what it means to bring these historic tales from the page to the stage.
- This documentary looks at the surprising contributions to American society by Catholic Sisters. Religious women historically have made enormous humanitarian contributions that have largely remained unrecognized. They founded, staffed and often funded an array of schools, hospitals and social service institutions across the country where there were none. They faced anti-Catholic discrimination and had little financial resources to work with, yet they became entrepreneurs raising funds and resources to take care of the needy. Sisters distinguished themselves as nurses during the Civil War by demonstrating generous and unbiased humanitarian acts to soldiers on both sides.
- The trial and crucifixion of Jesus, adapted from the anonymous English medieval play known as the "N. Towne Passion" - N. Towne meaning it could be performed in any town in England.
- Video Magazine TV Show covering extreme action sports in New York and the surrounding Northeast areas.