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7 results found for '"Walter Kerr"' in Person.
Walter Kerr on Theatre (1970 Film, Video)
Drama critic Walter Kerr comments on excerpts from five plays performed by professional actors. He discusses characteristics unique to the live dramatic form by comparing these scenes with segments of film....
Shakespeare Variates (1965 Television)
aka: Shakespeare Variations
- Series
- Esso Repertory Theatre
- Director
- David Pressman
- Producer
- David Susskind; Daniel Melnick
A showcase for American repertory theatre companies introduced by Walter Kerr. In this episode the American Shakespeare Festival Players, in Stratford, Connecticut rehearse Coriolanus (I i), The Taming of...
What Makes Opera Grand? (1958 Television)
- Series
- Omnibus (Us Series)
- Director
- Seymour Robbie
- Producer
- Robert Saudek; George M. Benson; Walter Kerr; Mary V. Ahern; Richard Thomas (2)
US cultural magazine series hosted by Alistair Cooke. In this episode Leonard Bernstein contends that since music is received directly by the heart and does not need to be processed by the brain first, opera...
Omnibus [24/02/1957] (1957 Television)
aka: Boyhood of Will Shakespeare, The
- Series
- Omnibus (Us Series)
- Director
- David Greene
- Producer
- Robert Saudek
Arts series introduced by Alistair Cooke. The programme contained three items - a pantomime by Jean-Louis Barrault, a dramatic sketch about Shakespeare’s youth, and a re-creation of high living among the...
Omnibus[03/03/1957] (1957 Television)
aka: Theatre Breaks Loose
- Series
- Omnibus (Us Series)
- Director
- David Greene
- Producer
- Robert Saudek
US arts series introduced by Alistair Cooke. In a 45 min item entitled ‘The Theatre Breaks Loose’ directed by David Greene, critic Walter Kerr chronicles the history of theatre from the Greeks to the...
"To Be or Not to Be": Some Views of Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1955 Television)
aka: Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’
- Series
- Omnibus (Us Series)
- Director
- Seymour Robbie
- Producer
- Robert Saudek
US anthology arts series introduced by Alistair Cooke. The final item in the programme (42 minutes) offers interpretations of Hamlet’s soliloquy ‘To be, or not to be’, with players from the Stratford...
Birth of the Stratford Festival (1953 Radio)
Radio documentary on the first Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival relating how the Festival was conceived, financed and realised and how the audience viewed the first performance of Richard III which...