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AUDRA MCDONALD IN CONCERT GO BACK HOME SATURDAY, MAY 25 @ 9:00PM By Martin Bookspan As I’m sure is true for many of you, I first became aware of Audra McDonald from her performance in Terrence McNally’s play, “Master Class.” She played the role of a young, aspiring opera singer attending Maria Callas’s Master Class at New York’s Juilliard School of Music (one of...

REBEL

VOCES SPECIAL PRESENTATION SATURDAY, MAY 25 @ 7:00PM Loreta Velazquez, Havana born and New Orleans raised, was no typical Southern Belle. Master of disguise, bewitching to both sexes, she, was brash, quick-witted, and unconventional. Her 1876 memoir A Woman in Battlescandalized the South when she revealed she had fought as a soldier and spy. Attacked not only for her criticism of the Confederacy...

NATURE

THE WHITE LIONS SUNDAY, JUNE 7 @ 10:00PM White lions are among the rarest and most treasured animals in the world. Rarer still is their survival in the wild. Their white color stands out in Africa’s wild bush country, increasing their risk of being targeted and killed by rival predators and marauding adult male lions. Used primarily for communication and camouflage, color is one of nature’s...

MEL BROOKS

AMERICAN MASTERS MONDAY, MAY 20 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM After 60 years in show business, Mel Brooks has earned more major awards than any other living entertainer; he is one of 14 EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) winners. Yet, the comedy giant has energetically avoided a documentary profile being made, even issuing an informal gag order on his friends … until now. Brooks agreed to throw...

MASTERPIECE CLASSIC

MR. SELFRIDGE SEASON FINALE SUNDAY, MAY 19 @ 10:00PM In Episode 8 of Mr. Selfridge, tragedy strikes on the day polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton comes to the store. An even greater celebrity plans a visit, and Harry and Rose attend a shocking play. Jeremy Piven (Entourage) stars in Mr. Selfridge as a wheeling-dealing American who shows early 1900s Londoners how to shop. Based on the life of...