Great Performances
Season 51 Episode 6 - Making Shakespeare: The First Folio
5.8 ?
1971
Comedy, Documentary, Drama
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
1
Great Performances at the Met: Der Rosenkavalier
2
Great Performances at the Met: Don Giovanni
3
New York City Ballet in Madrid
85 min
4
Message In A Bottle
86 min
5
Great Performances at the Met: Champion
6
Making Shakespeare: The First Folio
114 min
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8
From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2024
9
Great Performances at the Met: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
10
The LA Phil Celebrates Frank Gehry
85 min
11
George Jones: Still Playin’ Possum
85 min
12
Great Performances at the Met: Dead Man Walking
13
Great Performances at the Met: Florencia en el Amazonas
14
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15
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17
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18
Great Performances at the Met: Nabucco
19
Hamlet
154 min
20
Audra McDonald at the London Palladium
83 min
21
Purlie Victorious
106 min
22
Rodgers & Hammerstein's 80th Anniversary
116 min