Great Performances | May 2025
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Trailer | Great Performances #5206 | Now Hear This: Barrios: Chopin of the Guitar
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Barrios: Chopin of the Guitar #5206
Friday, May 2, 2025 - 8pm
Agustin Barrios was born and raised in rural Paraguay, far from the world's artistic capitals, and brought up on folk music. He identified more strongly with the Guarani Indians of his home than the European culture of Spain's former colonies, and faced many rejections, personal and professional. Yet through hundreds of concerts and innovative new compositions, he captured the soul of Latin America to become the most important guitar composer of the 20th century.
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Fri, 05/02/2025 @ 8:00 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sat, 05/03/2025 @ 12:00 AM
Next to Normal #5112
Friday, May 9, 2025 - 8pm
Experience this Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical directed by Michael Longhurst from London's Donmar Warehouse. Grammy nominee Caissie Levy stars in the story of a suburban family struggling with the effects of mental illness.
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Fri, 05/09/2025 @ 8:00 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sat, 05/10/2025 @ 12:30 AM
Trailer | Great Performances #5112 | Next To Normal
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Trailer | Great Performances #5208 | Yellow Face
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Yellow Face #5208
Friday, May 16, 2025 – 8pm
Enjoy Tony winner David Henry Hwang's comedy starring Daniel Dae Kim as an Asian American playwright who protests "yellowface" casting in the musical "Miss Saigon" only to mistakenly cast a white actor as the Asian lead in his own play.
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Fri, 05/16/2025 @ 8:00 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sat, 05/17/2025 @ 12:00 AM
Girl From The North Country #5113
Friday, May 23, 2025 - 8pm
Written and directed by acclaimed playwright Conor McPherson, Girl From the North Country reimagines 20 legendary songs by Bob Dylan as they've never been heard before. This spiritually uplifting story is set in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1934, when a group of wanderers' lives intersect at a house full of music, life and hope. Originally opening on Broadway to rave reviews on March 5, 2020, the production was forced to close just one week later, along with all other Broadway shows, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Re-opening on Broadway nineteen months later in October 2021, the show was recorded on Broadway with its original cast in April 2022. Nominated for seven 2022 Tony Awards including Best New Musical, among the classic Dylan songs woven into the narrative are "Forever Young," "All Along The Watchtower," "Hurricane," "Slow Train Coming" and "Like a Rolling Stone."
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Fri, 05/23/2025 @ 8:00 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sat, 05/24/2025 @ 12:30 AM
Trailer | Great Performances #5113 | Girl from the North Country
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Trailer | Great Performances #5114 |Kiss Me, Kate
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Kiss Me, Kate #5114
Friday, May 30, 8pm
The original Broadway production of Cole Porter's 1948 classic Kiss Me, Kate ran for over 1,000 performances and went on to become one of the all-time classics of Broadway's "Golden Age" of musicals. A love letter to the theater blending Shakespeare with backstage romance, the show was the crowning achievement of Porter's celebrated career and featured a score brimming with enduring hits including "Another Op'nin, Another Show," "So in Love," "Too Darn Hot," "From This Moment On" and the comic masterpiece "Brush Up Your Shakespeare." The 2024 revival of Kiss Me, Kate at London's Barbican Theatre stars Tony-winner Stephanie J. Block (The Cher Show) and Irish star Adrian Dunbar (Line of Duty) as Porter's famously feuding couple. The Barbican revival was directed by Tony-winning director Bartlett Sher (Lincoln Center Theater's South Pacific, The King and I, My Fair Lady).
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Fri, 05/30/2025 @ 8:00 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sat, 05/31/2025 @ 12:30 AM