History of the Broadway musical, presented by Julie Andrews. Includes the story of the Ziegfeld Follies, Irvi...
Exploring the partnership of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, beginning in 1966 with Fosse directing the film Sweet Charity, starring Shirley M...
Billy Connolly opens up on his ideas about childhood and discusses some of his early, groundbreaking stand-up material.
In this episode, Billy shares his ideas on masculinity, talking frankly about how his time in the shipyards shaped him both as a man...
This program explores the Roaring Twenties, featuring the Marx Brothers, Al Jolson, the Gershwins, and Rodgers & Hart. Ho...
Gwen is in Majorca with Joan to reflect on her relationship with Bob, who she has caught being unfaithful. She reflects on how sh...
In this episode, Billy reflects on his groundbreaking stand-up routines on sex, and how the awkward embarassments of love and romance are such g...
Following the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the Broadway musical regained popularity as audiences sought...
As Fosse struggles with the editing of the film Cabaret, he has also taken on the direction of a new musical Pippin. Gwen is thrilled to be ...
Fosse is too nervous to attend the premiere of Cabaret and is woken the next morning by his friend Paddy with the reviews. Gwen is struggling with he...
This episode takes a look at Billy Connolly's relationship with organised religion. Featuring classic routines which establishe...
Hits of the 1940s and 1950s, including Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, a...
In this programme, Billy Connolly examines class, politics and Scottishness, deconstructing the untrustworthiness of politicians and the ridicul...
Includes how rock 'n' roll, the Vietnam War, and the civil rights movement revolutionized the musical, as well as how Times Squ...
Three months after checking himself out of a psychiatric clinic, Bob hires a weekend house in the country to help comfort the recently be...
The stress is beginning to get to Bob as the editing of Lenny overlaps with the preparations for the start of Chicago. He reflects...
How Les Misérables and Miss Saigon traveled the world, the success of Disney's The Lion King, the 2003 hit Wicked, an...
Billy Connolly opens up about his life-long love affair with sending up the dark side of life. Featuring groundbreaking routines about death,...
The rehearsals for Chicago are finally underway, with Bob out of hospital and Gwen raring to go, but Bob's insecurities come to the fore again, es...
Bob is offered advice by his friend Paddy Chayefsky as he struggles to find an ending to his autobiographical movie All That Jazz. Gwen, who has...
From Russell T Davies' adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream', the opening scene.
From Russell T Davies' adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream', the theatre troupe bick...
From Russell T Davies' adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream', Oberon and Titania's argume...
From Russell T Davies' adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream', Oberon uses a love potion to Titani...
From Russell T Davies' adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream', Titania wakes up with the love po...
From Russell T Davies' adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream', bewitched by Oberon's lov...
From Russell T Davies' adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream', the theatre troupe's production o...
Frantic Assembly and Cardboard Citizens are among the theatre companies revealing how actors and directors transform performances with movement, gesture,...
As experimental dancer Akram Khan visits Seville for a collaboration with flamenco dancer Israel Galvan, this film offers a glimpse ...
Learn a ballet-inspired routine with Miss Kylie.
Learn a ballet- and hip-hop-inspired routine with Miss Kylie.
Learn a Bharatanatyam-inspired routine with Miss Kylie.
Learn a breakdance-inspired routine with Miss Kylie.
Learn a country-inspired routine with Miss Kylie.
From beautiful ballet to high-energy vogueing, dancers take us on a day in the life of Liverpool through exhilarating dance.
Learn about tutting in a disco-inspired routine with Miss Kylie.
Interview with Lloyd Newson, choreographer of DV8 Physical Theatre, and Nigel Charnock, performer with DV8. They discuss and demonstrate unconven...
A reworking of the stage production by choreographer Lloyd Newson and filmmaker David Hinton. In a style that challenges-and perha...
''Enter Achilles'', choreographed by Lloyd Newson. A Boys' Own adventure that turns into a nightmare, as a group of men in a pub explore the thin li...
Learn a hip-hop-inspired routine with Miss Kylie.
Learn a hula-inspired routine with Miss Kylie.
Learn a jazz-inspired routine with Miss Kylie.
Learn a jive-inspired routine with Miss Kylie.
Learn a K-pop- and tap-inspired routine with Miss Kylie.
Preview of the 5th London International Festival of Theatre, which presents international plays, musicals, dance, workshop...
In this programme, the performing arts are explored through behind the scene looks at Phantom of the Opera, Strictly Come Dancing, and a...
This programme explores ways of working, how to get into performing arts and how to get: a range of opportunities, jobs and roles, gett...
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