Great Performances
Season 51 Episode 6 - Making Shakespeare: The First Folio
Celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, which saved 18 plays from being lost. Tracing the First Folio’s story, the film also spotlights how New York City’s Public Theater presents Shakespeare’s work for today’s audiences.
Episodes in Season 51
Great Performances at the Met: Der Rosenkavalier
Great Performances at the Met: Don Giovanni
New York City Ballet in Madrid
85 min
Message In A Bottle
86 min
Great Performances at the Met: Champion
Making Shakespeare: The First Folio
114 min
Great Performances at the Met: Die Zauberflöte
From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2024
Great Performances at the Met: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
The LA Phil Celebrates Frank Gehry
85 min
George Jones: Still Playin’ Possum
85 min
Great Performances at the Met: Dead Man Walking
Great Performances at the Met: Florencia en el Amazonas
Now Hear This
Now Hear This
Now Hear This
Now Hear This
Great Performances at the Met: Nabucco
Hamlet
154 min
Audra McDonald at the London Palladium
83 min
Purlie Victorious
106 min
Rodgers & Hammerstein's 80th Anniversary
116 min