Great Performances

Season 10

TV-14

"You Can't Take It With You" is hailed one of the greatest revivals and filmed plays for PBS television. David Woods brought stunning charm, humor, and time to this Moss Hart masterpiece. Jason Robards, Jr. gave the collective performance of his career. Colleen Dewhurst perfection, Elizabeth Wilson superior, a joyous ensemble.

Where to Watch Season 10

6 Episodes

A Lincoln Center Special: Beverly! Her Farewell Performance
E1
A Lincoln Center Special: Beverly! Her Farewell PerformanceCarol Burnett hosts a gala tribute to retiring opera soprano and former general director of the New York City Opera since 1974, Beverly Sills.
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories
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The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other StoriesThree Irwin Shaw short stories are dramatized. In "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" a young married couple stop for a drink on a Sunday morning in Manhattan, and the conversation turns to the husband's fidelity. "The Monument" centers on the conflict between a popular bartender with a following in an upscale Irish bar in 1938 Manhattan and its owner, who is determined to introduce a more economical whiskey in the establishment over the barkeep's objections. In "The Man Who Married a French Wife" the influential American husband of a French woman is asked by her former lover, a former resistance fighter, to help him escape the country.
Norma
E3
NormaNorma, a Druid priestess, has broken her vow of chastity with an enemy of her people, the Roman Proconsul Pollione, who has now turned to another lover. Norma must choose between taking vengeance against her lover or atoning for her sins.
La clemenza di Tito
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La clemenza di Tito
Edith Wharton: Summer
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Edith Wharton: SummerThe story of a seventeen-year-old girl's early disillusionment with life followed by her accommodation to reality.
Edith Wharton: Looking Back
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Edith Wharton: Looking BackNoted American author Edith Wharton, in her later years, returns home and reminisces about her life. This was part of a PBS Great Performances trilogy, which also included dramatizations of her novels "Summer" (starring Diane Lane and John Cullum) and "The House of Mirth" (starring Geraldine Chaplin).