This adaptation of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play stars Angela Lansbury as Daisy Werthan, James Earl Jones as her chauffeur, Hoke Colburn, and Tony Award-winner Boyd Gaines reprising his Broadway role as Daisy's son Boolie. This iconic tale of pride, changing times, and the transformative power of friendship has become one of the most beloved American stories of the late 20th-century.

Stephanie Campbell (MFA, Acting/Directing, University of Arizona) is an international mask methods specialist and a theater professor at Montana State University. Ms. Campbell conducts mask workshops worldwide and offers an easily understood process of character creation for use in your own classes. Using character masks representing an entire range of emotions, participants can learn to more fully develop their ability to make and “allow” intuitive physical, emotional, or mental choices appropriate for their creations. (116 minutes)

This program presents a demonstration of acting exercises and a performance by members of the Open Theater of an excerpt from their new (1975) production, Fable. It also features an interview with director Andre Gregory about preparatory training at his Manhattan Project theater group and footage of voice coach Kristin Linklater working with students.

Acting coach to some of Hollywood's biggest stars, Ivan Chubbuck explains her 12 step acting technique as outlined in the best-selling book, The Power of the Actor.

In returning to the role of a deposed monarch whose crown is taken from him, Derek Jacobi takes a 360-degree view of this great political thriller whose title character he played more than 30 years ago.

This revolutionary eight-part teaching series totally changes how students look at the acting strategies that were pioneered by world-renowned Russian actor and theater director Constantin Stanislavsky. Coaching from Hollywood acting teacher and director Timothy Craig will help students employ helpful acting techniques. Students will embrace and project Stanislavsky’s theories from their inner selves as they observe, react, and immediately apply them to their acting, directing, and writing. 8-part series, 9–20 minutes each.

Collection of videos including many stage performances of Shakespeare works like:

Starring Sir Patrick Stewart as Macbeth and Kate Fleetwood as Lady Macbeth, Rupert Goold's immediate and visceral film is set in an undefined and threatening central European world. Shot on location in the mysterious underground labyrinth of Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire, this is a contemporary presentation of Shakespeare's intense, claustrophobic and bloody drama.

Any time you present yourself before others, your way of interacting with your listeners is equally as important as what you say. In 24 dynamic sessions, you'll learn how to present yourself successfully, practice exercises to develop physical and vocal freedom, and grasp how to keep your audience's attention. With the skills you'll develop, you can confidently offer your best self to the world.

This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. This production boasts a distinguished cast, with Derek Jacobi in the title role and John Geilgud as John of Gaunt. Perfectly suited to a play written entirely in verse, their efforts were augmented by a studio set that enabled the director to reflect an intense psychological struggle as well as a taut political drama.

After discussing the meaning of tragedy and tragic conflict, this program explores the major aspects of character and structure in tragic drama. The tragic world, tragic conflict and the tragic hero are illustrated and explored through selections from such great dramatists as Tennessee Williams, Chekhov, Ibsen, Shakespeare, O'Neill, Sophocles and Arthur Miller.

Comic drama draws on a lively repertoire of resources. This program discusses comedy-- its plot devices, stock characters, different forms, satiric goals and black humor--and illustrates its diversity with lively excerpts from Shakespeare, Kopit, Simon, Friedman, Goldsmith and Shaw.