Theatre Videos

Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2003, 91 minutes
"This production of Gluck's opera is a recreation of the historic staging of this work by Swiss designer Adolphe Appia and Jacques Dalcroze in 1912. Appia's innovations in design and staging were an effort to restore to the theater some of the vitality and integrity it had lost since antiquity and his methods were the basis of modern theatrical design."

Creative Arts Television Archive, 1998, 27 minutes
"Gisela May, star of Bertolt Brecht's East German theater the "Berliner Ensemble" sings songs (one in English, the others in German with subtitles on screen) on texts by Brecht to music by Kurt Weill, Hanns Eisler, and Paul Dessau. May introduces each song with an English explanation."

Creative Arts Television, 1964, 27 minutes
"Colleagues and admirers from the world of theater come together to examine the life, work and influence of Marc Blitzstein. Excerpts of performances are included."

Creative Arts Television, 1976, 28 minutes
"First of a two-part series examining the life, work and influence of Marc Blitzstein. This series brings together comrades and admirers from the world of theater, and performance excerpts. The first program concentrates on reminiscences of the man and his work."

Creative Arts Television, 1976, 29 minutes
"Examination of the life, work and influence of Marc Blitzstein. With Aaron Copland, composer. Arvin Brown, director. John Houseman, producer-actor. Leonard Bernstein, composer. Actor-singers Howard Da Silva, Brenda Lewis, Jerry Jarrett, Joyce Ebert. Blitzstein's work includes "The Cradle Will Rock" (a 1937 Federal Theater Project project), "Regina" (based on Lillian Hellman's play "The Little Foxes"), and an adaptation of the Brecht-Weill musical play "The Threepenny Opera." Through all his work there runs a vivid social consciousness, often expressed in angry commentary on injustice and the irony of misery in a land of plenty. When he died (in an act of violence when he was only 58) he was working on an opera about Sacco and Vanzetti. Performance excerpts include portions from the above titles as well as from Blitzstein's contributions to "No For an Answer", and "Daarlin' Juno". 1976."

Creative Arts Television, 1999, 25 minutes
"The Viennese born actress-singer, regarded in her lifetime as the leading interpreter of the songs of her husband, composer Kurt Weill, sings songs from "Mahagony," "Happy End," "Das Berliner Requiem" and "Die Dreigroschenoper" (The Threepenny Opera)."

Creative Arts Television, 1997, 27 minutes
"Arthur Laurents, Beni Montresor, and Stephen Sondheim discuss the making of the 1965 Broadway musical, "Do I hear a waltz?""