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11 results found for '"Omnibus (Us Series)"' in Series.

  • King Lear (2010 Television)

    Series
    Omnibus (Us Series)
    Director
    Andrew McCullough
    Producer
    Fred Rickey

    Shortened version of the play adapted for television. Transmitted live in the Omnibus slot, the production was filmed on a circular set with two cameras that travelled around the perimeter. Reviews note...

  • Midwinter Night’s Dream, A (1961 Television)

    aka: King John

    Series
    Omnibus (Us Series)
    Director
    William A. Graham
    Producer
    Robert Saudek

    Anthology arts series hosted by Alistair Cooke. A preview of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, then under construction and scheduled to be completed in 1964. The episode includes an extract (Act...

  • 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...

  • Omnibus [15/11/1953] (1953 Television)

    aka: Moor’s Pavanne, The

    Series
    Omnibus (Us Series)
    Director
    Bob Banner

    Anthology arts series hosted by Alistair Cooke. One section (16 mins) includes José Limon’s contemporary ballet inspired by Othello. Music by Henry Purcell arranged by Simon Sadoff. The director of the...

  • Omnibus [11/01/1953] (1953 Television)

    aka: Henry V

    Series
    Omnibus (Us Series)
    Director
    Andrew McCullough
    Producer
    William Spier

    US anthology arts series introduced by Alistair Cooke. The first item in the programme is a 22 minute extract from Henry V. The scene shown is V ii, Henry’s wooing of Katherine.

  • Omnibus [11/10/1953] (1953 Television)

    Series
    Omnibus (Us Series)
    Director
    Bob Banner

    Anthology arts series hosted by Alistair Cooke. This episodes includes a 5 minute item showing a rehearsal for King Lear with director Peter Brook. composer Virgil Thomson and Natasha Parry as Cordelia. The...

  • Omnibus [21/02/1954] (1951 Television)

    aka: Yale University Shakespeare Festival

    Series
    Omnibus (Us Series)
    Director
    Andrew McCullough; Delbert Mann
    Producer
    Fred Rickey

    US anthology arts series introduced by Alistair Cooke. The programme includes a 40-minute item in which Cooke visits the Yale University Shakespeare Festival. University President A. Whitney Griswold...