THE POWDER & THE GLORY

THURSDAY, MARCH 25 @ 8:00PM They were in the cosmetic industry, but they were more than that. They were giants of industry. They created an industry. It just so happened it was in the world of powder and paint. —Shirley Lord, Senior Editor, Vogue The Powder & the Glory, a 90-minute documentary narrated by Jane Alexander, tells the story of two of the first highly successful women...

GREAT PERFORMANCES

Dance In America: NY Export: Opus Jazz FRIDAY, JUNE 21 @ 8:00PM In 1958, Jerome Robbins’ “ballet in sneakers,” NY Export: Opus Jazz, became a smash hit when it was broadcast on The Ed Sullivan Show and toured around the world. Set to an evocative jazz score by Robert Prince and abstract urban backdrops by Ben Shahn, the dance told the story of disaffected urban youth through movement...

FRONTLINE

CLOSE TO HOME TUESDAY, MARCH 23 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM As the U.S. unemployment rate hits a 25-year high and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hits a six-year low, award-winning FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel chronicles the recession’s impact on one unlikely American neighborhood — New York’s Upper East Side. In Close to Home, Bikel sets up her cameras in the hair salon...

AMERICAN MASTERS

JOHN JAMES AUDUBON: DRAWN FROM NATURE MONDAY, MARCH 22 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM John James Audubon is best known for The Birds of America, a book of 435 images, portraits of every bird then known in the United States – painted and reproduced in the size of life. Its creation cost Audubon eighteen years of monumental effort in finding the birds, making the book, and selling it to...

SCHEDULE MARCH 18 – MARCH 24

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