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SOUTH PACIFIC WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM Opening on Broadway on April 7, 1949, South Pacific racked up a total of 1,925 performances over a period of more than 5 years. Since then it has had numerous revivals the world over, has been twice made into a feature film, and a 2006 concert version from Carnegie Hall was shown on PBS’s Great Performances series. Amazingly,...

NOVA

LIZARD KINGS SUNDAY, AUGUST 11 @ 8:00PM They look like dragons and inspire visions of fire-spitting monsters. But these creatures with their long claws, razor-sharp teeth, and muscular, whip-like tails are actually monitors, the largest lizards now walking the planet. With their acute intelligence, these lizards—including the largest of all, the Komodo dragon—are a very different kind of...

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Master of American Sculpture MONDAY, AUGUST 16 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM Throughout the United States there are thousands of parks in which can be found bronze and marble statues of the major historical figures of times past. Taken from a mostly European sensibility, these monuments are testaments to their subjects and to the times in which they were sculpted. Among the greatest American sculptors...

MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!

INSPECTOR LEWIS, SERIES II THE POINT OF VANISHING FRIDAY, AUGUST 27@ 7:30PM & 10:30PM Steven Mullan is found dead in his bathtub, the scalding water indicative of the white-hot rage that motivated the murder. Lewis recognizes Mullan as having been recently released from prison after having tried to kill celebrity atheist Tom Rattenbury while driving drunk. Mullan’s sentence may...

SCHEDULE AUGUST 12 – 18

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