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World Premiere Production of 'The Enchanted Island" on Great Performances at the Met

William Christie conducts the work, which uses arias by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, and others to tell a new story featuring characters from Shakespeare’s The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Fri, May 18th, 2012

The Enchanted Island, a world premiere work that combines Baroque music with a new, English-language libretto featuring characters from Shakespeare’s The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and a starry cast including Danielle de N...

Sherlock Returns to KUED with Awaited Second Season

Sun, May 6th, 2012

  The appeal is elementary: good, unpretentious fun." The New York Times   "Tremendously clever fun" Entertainment Weekly   Sherlock, the world's foremost consulting detective (Benedict Cumberbatch, War Horse, Tinker Tailor Soldie...

Love Conquers War on Masterpiece Classic's Birdsong

Based on Sebastian Faulks’ International Bestseller
Sun, April 22nd, 2012

Eddie Redmayne (My Week with Marilyn) and Clémence Poésy (Harry Potter) star as two lovers whose fiery affair precedes the firestorm of World War I, on Birdsong, adapted from Sebastian Faulks’ impassioned novel. Birdsong ...

KUED Airs The Mystery of Edwin Drood Based on  Dickens’ Celebrated Unfinished Novel 

Sun, April 15th, 2012

On June 8, 1870, Charles Dickens concluded a full-day’s work on his latest novel and set down his pen. He died the next day, leaving The Mystery of Edwin Drood a mystery indeed. Masterpiece Classic uses clues left by the author h...

KUED Presents Australian Pink Floyd: Live from the Hammersmith Apollo 

Fri, April 13th, 2012

While Pink Floyd broke up in 1996, the musical and visual concert experience of one of rock music's most iconic groups can still be experienced  through the musical prowess of the worldside touring tribute band, Australian Pink Floyd. The Austra...

New Adaptation of "Great Expectations" comes to KUED

Sun, April 1st, 2012

  Gillian Anderson (The X-Files, Bleak House) and Douglas Booth (The Pillars of Earth) star in Charles Dickens' tale of an orphan's sudden expectations of wealth and true love.  Complicating the picture are an escaped convict, a wily lawye...

American Masters Explores Pulitzer Prize-Winning Women Behind Classic Novels 

Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel, Harper Lee: Hey Boo 
Mon, April 2nd, 2012

Though their successes were nearly 30 years apart, Margaret Mitchell (Nov. 8, 1900 to Aug. 6, 1949) and Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) share much in common: two Southern white women who each won the Pulitzer Prize for their debut novels &ndas...

KUED Presents The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater

Thu, March 29th, 2012

The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater, a celebration of Yiddish theater pioneers Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky by their grandson, Michael Tilson Thomas, Artistic Director of the New World Symphony, airs Thursday, Marc...

The B-52s With the Wild Crowd! Live in Athens, GA 

 
Sat, March 17th, 2012

The B-52s With the Wild Crowd! Live in Athens, GA , filmed in the B-52s' hometown of Athens, Georgia in February 2011, comes to KUED Saturday, March 17 at 8:30 p.m. Wig-wearing, boa-draped, glitter-covered fans came from near and far to celebrat...

Guitar Superstar Joe Bonamassa Performs Live from New York on KUED Special

   
Sat, March 10th, 2012

  Internationally renowned guitar superstar Joe Bonamassa delivers a stunning performance at the legendary Beacon Theatre in New York City in a new PBS special. Bonamassa's show at the Beacon Theatre is his follow-up performance to last Decembe...

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