Asteroid City est une ville minuscule, en plein désert, dans le sud-ouest des États-Unis. Nous sommes en 1955. Le site est surtout célèbre pour son gigantesque cratère de météorite et son observatoire astronomique à proximité. Ce week-end, les militaires et les astronomes accueillent cinq enfants surdoués, distingués pour leurs créations scientifiques, afin qu’ils présentent leurs inventions. À quelques kilomètres de là, par-delà les collines, on aperçoit des champignons atomiques provoqués par des essais nucléaires.
Une célèbre comédienne, Myrtle Gordon, est la vedette d'une pièce de théâtre dans laquelle elle incarne une femme viellissante. Un soir, elle assiste à la mort d'une admiratrice qui tentait de l'approcher.
Trois étudiants aisés décident de ne pas ignorer plus longtemps leurs désirs les plus profonds, et prennent le plus gros risque de leur vie.
Three married couples undergoing therapy are summoned by their female psychologist to a meeting. The psychologist won’t be attending the reunion herself, but she will give to them instructions about what they must do. Thus, to the sound of a horn (literally), the six protagonists will gradually air their dirty laundry concerning their relationships and bring up issues like taking care of the kids, the different home tasks, money, jealousy and sex, until it all leads to a most unexpected and equally shocking end.
A Footlights Club, une pension de femmes artistes, cohabitent Jean Maitland, une danseuse blonde sarcastique ; Linda Shaw, une brune prétentieuse ; Kaye Hamilton, une jeune comédienne obsédée par son art ; Catherine Luther, une ancienne vedette ; Judy Canfield, une rousse exubérante, Eve, Annie et bien d'autres encore. Terry Randall, une riche héritière souhaitant faire ses preuves sur scène, s'intègre au groupe et partage sa chambre avec Jean. Au même moment, Anthony Powell, un agent artistique de Broadway très réputé, reçoit la visite d'un étrange individu pour son prochain spectacle.
1984 Dans un hôpital psychiatrique abandonné, une compagnie théâtrale menée de main de maître par Alma expérimente une technique extrême de jeu. En privant ses comédiens de sommeil, Alma prétend les préparer à donner le meilleur d'eux-mêmes. Au fur et à mesure des jours d'insomnie, les acteurs ressentent des choses de plus en plus étranges… Bianca, jeune actrice en compétition pour le rôle principal, tente de percer les secrets de cet étrange endroit et devient bientôt l'objet de forces inconnues.
Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne are glamorous, rich, reckless…and divorced. Five years later, their love for one another is unexpectedly rekindled when they take adjoining suites of a French hotel while honeymooning with their new spouses. This chance encounter instantly reignites their passion, and they fling themselves headlong into a whirlwind of love and lust once more, without a thought for partners present or turbulences past. This Chichester Festival Theatre production of Noël Coward’s Privates Lives was filmed live at London's Gielgud Theatre.
A stage director is driven to madness during a regional production of Julius Caesar.
A perceptive and funny study about the fantasies, inhibitions and dreams of two frustrated and lonely middle-class matrons who set up competing lemonade stands along a jammed highway. This short play incorporates comedy and tragedy, a touch of the bizarre, and ultimately, a sincere compassion in both women.
The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of stepping in as their melodramatic production's (Flaming Women) female lead.
Un vieil acteur se retrouve seul avec un accessoiriste dans un théâtre vide. Il se remémore sa carrière.
A war between two families, who live in the same building.
Six men, one woman (and her brother) come together with one goal - to make the play. It would be probably another common story that this theater group is composed of anti-heroes who float lost in time and space, in a town where it seems that the sun sets in the east. Led by Sasha, a director who has recently returned to his hometown, this group of socially neadaptiranih amateurs starting the fight to their demons and the prejudices that surround them in the society. For dramaturgical template selection western and riding on stereotypes of the genre of the struggle between good and evil, the conflict between civilization and wilderness, the protagonists develop their life stories inevitably influencing and changing each other. Although, as time passes, the show looks increasingly like a mission impossible, almost all of its stakeholders is increasingly seen as a metaphor for their fate and get caught for it as the opportunity of a lifetime .
After the Charlie Hebdo shooting events by the hand of jihadist terrorists David wants to bring on stage a play based on the late satyrical cartoonist George Wolinski's comicbook strips, but he struggles to finds cohoperation from institutional figures. He then agrees to direct in a small provincial town a stage play about an apulian folk dance, the Pizzica. Masterminding to disguise the original planned one, with its sexually explicit nature, into the accorded one he will gain the complicity of the curious cast hired on the spot. The start of the rehearsals will arouse excited consensus either censure which will lead to a growing boycott of the staging.
Documentary focusing on 25 year-old actress Jane Fonda as she and her director Andreas Voutsinas prepare a stage play called The Fun Couple for Broadway.
Dutch television adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play "Saint Joan".
Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal. Urgent concerns of scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil are embedded within this thrilling and deeply disturbing tale.
Eilis is addicted to mustard. When she falls madly in love, she's sure her demons are finally banished, but when the relationship breaks down her shameful addiction to the yellow stuff returns with a vengeance.