Category Archives: Program Highlights

GREAT PERFORMANCES

AT THE MET

MARNIE

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 @ 10:00PM

Great Performances at the Met Season 12 begins with a new production of Bellini’s masterpiece about a woman scorned, conducted by Carlo Rizzi. Norma stars Sondra Radvanovsky as the titlular druid high priestess, opposite Joyce DiDonato and Joseph Calleja.

(2 Hours 30minutes)


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GREAT PERFORMANCES

AT THE MET

MARNIE

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM

Great Performances at the Met Season 12 begins with a new production of Bellini’s masterpiece about a woman scorned, conducted by Carlo Rizzi. Norma stars Sondra Radvanovsky as the titlular druid high priestess, opposite Joyce DiDonato and Joseph Calleja.

(2 Hours 30 minutes)


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FINDING YOUR ROOTS

DREAMING OF A NEW LAND

TUESDAY, MAY 31 @ 6:00PM & 10:30PM

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores with Marisa Tomei, Sheryl Sandberg and Kal Penn the tremendous challenges faced by their immigrant forebears. From Italy, Russia and India to America, their histories show success could take generations to achieve.


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SURVIVING THE DUST BOWL

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

TUESDAY, JANUARY 29 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

They were called “Black Blizzards,” dark clouds reaching miles into the sky, churning millions of tons of dirt into torrents of destruction. For ten years beginning in 1930, dust storms ravaged the parched and overplowed southern plains, turning bountiful wheat fields into desert. Disease, hardship and death followed, yet the majority of people stayed on, steadfastly refusing to give up on the land and a way of life.


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INDEPENDENT LENS

THE KING

MONDAY, JANUARY 28 @ 10:00PM

Is the promise of the “American Dream” alive or a concept that’s faded in the rear-view mirror?

Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, acclaimed filmmaker Eugene Jarecki takes the King’s 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across America in search of not only Elvis’s legacy but the fate of the American Dream and the consequences of “cashing in” to try to achieve it. The King is a cautionary snapshot of America at a critical time in the nation’s history, painting a parallel portrait of the nation’s own heights and depths, from its inspired origins to its perennial struggles with race, class, power, and money.


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GREAT PERFORMANCES

DOUBT FROM MINNESOTA OPERA

FRIDAY, JANUARY 25 @ 10:00PM

Watch an adaptation of John Patrick Shanley’s hit 2005 Broadway play and the 2008 film about suspicion leading to a battle of wills at a Bronx Catholic school. Starring Christine Brewer, Adriana Zabala, Matthew Worth and Denyce Graves.


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GREAT PERFORMANCES

DOUBT FROM MINNESOTA OPERA

FRIDAY, JANUARY 25 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

Watch an adaptation of John Patrick Shanley’s hit 2005 Broadway play and the 2008 film about suspicion leading to a battle of wills at a Bronx Catholic school. Starring Christine Brewer, Adriana Zabala, Matthew Worth and Denyce Graves.


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NOVA

KILAUEA: HAWAII ON FIRE

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7  @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

In May 2018, Kīlauea volcano erupted, obliterating neighborhoods with devastating force and uprooting thousands of local residents. It is Hawaiʻi’s most destructive volcanic eruption in generations. How can one of the most beautiful places on Earth suddenly transform into a roaring inferno, sputtering molten lava and bombs of volcanic rock the size of refrigerators?


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NATURE

EQUUS: STORY OF THE HORSE

CHASING THE WIND

WEDNESDAY, MAY 22 @ 9:00PM

The relationship between man and his noble steed is almost as old as civilization itself. Ever since the mysterious beginning of our extraordinary partnership, horses helped shape the human world. At the speed of a horse, our ancestors conquered distances and built empires. Together, humans and horses flourished side by side. What makes us so perfect for each other?


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