Great Performances
series currently in production
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Comedy
Documentary
Drama
Seasons | 50
Episodes | 659
avg.Runtime | 120 min
First EP | 1971-01-28
Last EP | 2025-05-18
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The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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Season List
season 1 || Season 1
Relesed on | 1971-01-28
1
Episode 1
1971-01-28
2
Episode 2
1971-02-04
3
Episode 3
1971-02-25
18
Hogan's Goat
1971-10-18
A young Irish ward boss has a chance to be elected mayor, but the disgraced current mayor makes sure the candidate's wife learns about his affair with a just-deceased rich girl.
CAST
charactor: Narrator (voice)
Original: Bray Poor
Total EP: 663
charactor: Self - Host
Original: Julie Andrews
Total EP: 7
charactor: Self
Original: Scott Yoo
Total EP: 7
charactor: Self
Original: Plácido Domingo
Total EP: 6
charactor: Self
Original: Tony Bennett
Total EP: 5
charactor: Self
Original: Betty Comden
Total EP: 5
charactor: Self
Original: Renée Fleming
Total EP: 5
charactor: Amy Bisley
Original: Geraldine Fitzgerald
Total EP: 4
charactor: Nina
Original: Blythe Danner
Total EP: 4
charactor: Self
Original: John Cullum
Total EP: 4
charactor: Self
Original: Frederica von Stade
Total EP: 4
charactor: Self
Original: Diahann Carroll
Total EP: 4
charactor: Cora
Original: Rue McClanahan
Total EP: 3
charactor: Oswald
Original: Frederick Coffin
Total EP: 3
charactor: Mrs. Holroyd
Original: Joyce Ebert
Total EP: 3
charactor: The Prince of Homburg
Original: Frank Langella
Total EP: 3
charactor: Editor
Original: Charles Kimbrough
Total EP: 3
charactor: Self
Original: Stephen Sondheim
Total EP: 3
charactor: Self
Original: John Gielgud
Total EP: 3
charactor: Self
Original: Leonard Bernstein
Total EP: 3
charactor: Self
Original: Len Cariou
Total EP: 3
charactor: Self
Original: Marvin Hamlisch
Total EP: 3
charactor: Self - Host
Original: Glenn Close
Total EP: 3
charactor:
Original: Meryl Streep
Total EP: 3
charactor: Gideon March
Original: James Maddalena
Total EP: 3
charactor: Self
Original: Richard Kiley
Total EP: 3
charactor: Self
Original: Lauren Bacall
Total EP: 3
charactor: Self
Original: Rosemary Clooney
Total EP: 3
charactor: Self
Original: Cab Calloway
Total EP: 3
charactor: Self
Original: Luciano Pavarotti
Total EP: 3
charactor: Self - Host
Original: Scott Yoo
Total EP: 3
charactor: Self
Original: Carol Burnett
Total EP: 3
charactor: Lucille
Original: Estelle Parsons
Total EP: 2
charactor: Wilma Atkins
Original: Frances Sternhagen
Total EP: 2
charactor: Patsy Johnson
Original: Susan Sarandon
Total EP: 2
charactor: Hart
Original: Kevin McCarthy
Total EP: 2
charactor: Dorn
Original: Louis Zorich
Total EP: 2
charactor: Warder
Original: Richard Jenkins
Total EP: 2
charactor: Mine manager
Original: William Swetland
Total EP: 2
charactor: Self - Host
Original: Hal Holbrook
Total EP: 2
CREW
Mimi Lien
Set Designer
Art
Newton Thomas Sigel
Director of Photography
Camera
Brian Hooker
Translator
Crew
Gary Halvorson
Director
Directing
Kirk Browning
Director
Directing
Holger Preuße
Director
Directing
Bartlett Sher
Director
Directing
Conor McPherson
Director
Directing
Simon Godwin
Director
Directing
Kirk Browning
Director
Directing
Susan Froemke
Director
Directing
Jennifer Lin
Director
Directing
Todd Decker
Director
Directing
Burt Shevelove
Director
Directing
Philipp Quiring
Director
Directing
Kathy Dougherty
Director
Directing
Michael Mayer
Director
Directing
Arvin Brown
Director
Directing
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Director
Directing
Sharon Mullally
Director
Directing
Max Lewkowicz
Director
Directing
Michael Longhurst
Director
Directing
Leigh Silverman
Director
Directing
Nicholas Hytner
Director
Directing
David Horn
Director
Directing
William Ball
Director
Directing
Michael Attenborough
Director
Directing
Anne-Kathrin Peitz
Director
Directing
John J. Desmond
Director
Directing
Ross MacGibbon
Director
Directing
Sam Wrench
Director
Directing
Ryan Healey
Lighting Director
Lighting
Kevin Adams
Lighting Design
Lighting
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Conductor
Sound
David Frost
Music Producer
Sound
Marco Armiliato
Conductor
Sound
Tom Kitt
Music
Sound
Bob Telson
Music
Sound
Ring Lardner
Original Story
Writing
Conor McPherson
Writer
Writing
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