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Great Performances
Genre
Performing arts
Created by
Jac Venza
Directed by
Steve Ruggi
Presented by
Hal Holbrook Walter Cronkite Julie Andrews
Theme music composer
John Williams
Country of origin
United States
Original language
English
No. of seasons
51
Production
Production company
WNET
Original release
Network
PBS
Release
November 4, 1972 (1972-11-04) – present
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Great Performances is a television anthology series dedicated to the performing arts; the banner has been used to televise plays, musicals, opera, ballet, concerts, as well as occasional documentaries. It is produced by the PBS member station WNET in New York City (originally in conjunction with KQED/San Francisco, WTTW/Chicago, Maryland Public Television, South Carolina ETV and KERA-TV/Dallas/Fort Worth).
The series is the longest-running performing arts anthology on television and has won 29 Primetime Emmy Awards, three Peabody Awards,[1][2][3] and an Image Award, with nods from the Directors Guild of America and the Cinema Audio Society.[4]
^73rd Annual Peabody Awards, May 2014.
^69th Annual Peabody Awards, May 2011.
^63rd Annual Peabody Awards, May 2004.
^Comprehensive IMDb listing of awards
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GreatPerformances is a television anthology series dedicated to the performing arts; the banner has been used to televise plays, musicals, opera, ballet...
This is a list of episodes for the television series GreatPerformances. It includes special episodes. Antigone (October 7, 1972) The Rimers of Eldritch...
includes appearances in QB VII (1974), All Creatures Great and Small (1975), Hollywood Wives (1985), and Great Expectations (1991). In 2015, he starred in the...
Sophisticated Ladies Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (GreatPerformances / National Tour production) The Gospel at Colonus Sunday in the Park...
for 3 consecutive weeks. It was praised for its realistic plot and greatperformances. Fight For My Way was later adapted into a manhwa.[citation needed]...
the Golden Globe Award in the same category. List of Michelle Pfeiffer performances at AllMovie "The Filming of Maleficent 2 Has Already Begun!". Gobhy....
SNL clips. She was featured in Entertainment Weekly's list of 15 GreatPerformances for her various impersonations on SNL (December 2008) and in EW's...
Return to Broadway in The Great Comet". Playbill. Paulson, Michael (July 27, 2017). "Mandy Patinkin Withdraws From 'The Great Comet'". The New York Times...
notable film credits include 1776 (1972), Hearts of the West (1975), The Great Santini (1979), Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990), The Prince of Tides (1991),...
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his performance as George Gibbs in the 1989 Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. A performance of this production was featured on Great Performances:...
List of Maggie Smith performances at IMDb List of Maggie Smith performances at the TCM Movie Database List of Maggie Smith performances at the Internet Broadway...
Publishing. ISBN 9781600377686. "GreatPerformances". "The Great American Songbook: Introduction". "PBS". March 11, 2003. "The Great American Songbook". The Johnny...
Broadcasting Service's GreatPerformances series under the title GreatPerformances at the Met. In addition, selected performances can now be viewed online...
which are not computer-generated). He is featured in the PBS series GreatPerformances, in the episode titled "Bill Irwin, Clown Prince", initially broadcast...
Covent Garden, opposite Charles Kemble as Benedick in his farewell performances. The great 19th-century stage team Henry Irving and Ellen Terry counted Benedick...
television appearances, including NBC Experiment in Television and GreatPerformances. On daytime television, Harrington was the second actress to play...
Margaret in POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive on Broadway, with performances beginning on April 14, 2022, at...
after she performed in La bohème, for a limited-run engagement. PBS's GreatPerformances aired the stage show during its annual fund drives and the show was...
Harris and Patti LuPone. The concert subsequently aired on PBS's GreatPerformances. Cryer made a guest appearance on the sitcom series Husbands in its...
in a May 1978 "Theater in America" television production for PBS's GreatPerformances. She replaced Glenn Close, who played the role in the Off-Broadway...
in a concert presentation of On the Town, which was broadcast on GreatPerformances for PBS. Garrison has also appeared in numerous roles on television...
John J. O'Connor (November 8, 1985). "'The Gospel At Colonus', On 'GreatPerformances'". The New York Times. Retrieved October 29, 2014. "The Gospel at...
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