In this emotional drama, a team of young dancers are competing for places in a prestigious dance troupe. The dancers have to deal with the ups and downs of trying to find their place in the world, even as their profession also places an enormous physical and psychological challenge before them. They train with the rigor of championship athletes, ...
When Arthur Miller's play The Crucible was first staged in 1953, it was widely acclaimed as a metaphor for the recklessness of Joseph McCarthy and his spurious crusade against communism. In its 1996 screen adaptation (scripted by Miller), the tone has been adjusted somewhat and plays as a warning against the dangers of political and religious ...
Based on Alan Bennett's acclaimed play The Madness of George III, The Madness of King George takes a dark-humored look at the mental decline of King George III of England. The film's story begins nearly three decades into George's reign, in 1788, as the unstable king (Nigel Hawthorne, reprising his stage role) begins to show signs of increasing ...
This musical performance video brings an international cast as they do Mozart's last opera at the Glyndbourne Festival in Great Britain. ~ All Movie Guide
Celebrated director Nicholas Hytner (The Madness of King George) helmed this 2006 stage production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Cosė fan tutte at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera. A familiar tale of romance, betrayal and forgiveness, originally adapted by Mozart from the da Ponte play, it stars Luca Pisaroni as Guglielmo, Nicolas Riveno as ...
An unruly collection of clever but crass Thatcher-era English high-school students seek to earn the scores needed to enroll in Oxford and Cambridge in director Nicholas Hytner and screenwriter Alan Bennett's screen adaptation of Bennett's Tony-winning play. The History Boys focuses on a group of eight students, all of them deemed by their ...
Nicholas Hytner (The Crucible) directed this Wendy Wasserstein screenplay, adapted from Stephen McCauley's novel, about the romantic mismatch of a gay man and a young pregnant woman. When literary agent Sidney Miller (Alan Alda) and his wife Constance (Allison Janney) have a dinner party, Constance's social-worker stepsister Nina Borowski ...
Leos Janacek's modern opera about a fox and her friends (which was inspired by a comic strip) is recorded in this video release, with The Chatelet Theater Musical de Paris and producer Nicholas Hytner staging the show in a visually dazzling production in the original Czech. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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