Una coppia decide di divorziare. In tribunale lo scontro diventerà pian piano sempre più aggressivo, anche per via dei legali che rappresentano i due coniugi.
Sebbene non sia ancora in grado di riprendersi dalla scomparsa della moglie, l'attore e regista teatrale Yusuke Kafusu accetta di mettere in scena Zio Vanja a un festival di Hiroshima. Qui, conosce Misaki, una giovane riservata che le è stata assegnata come autista. Nel corso dei loro spostamenti, la crescente sincerità delle loro conversazioni costringe entrambi ad affrontare il loro passato.
Max Fischer è un quindicenne che ha trovato la sua unica ragione di vita: frequentare la Rushmore Academy. Nerd occhialuto ma non secchione, con molteplici attività extra-curricolari all'attivo (tra cui l'allestimento di maestosi spettacoli teatrali), Max fa amicizia con il laconico e svogliato "uomo d'affari" Herman Blume e insieme a lui si scopre innamorato della dolce maestrina vedova miss Cross.
Fine anni '80 a Parigi: un gruppo di giovani attori è appena stata ammessa a Les Amandiers, la prestigiosa scuola di teatro diretta da Patrick Chéreau. Sono all'inizio della loro vita e della loro carriera. Lungo la strada impareranno, reciteranno, ameranno, avranno paura, vivranno al massimo e affronteranno anche le loro prime tragedie.
Caden, il protagonista, è un regista teatrale. Va dal dentista e scopre che c'è qualcosa di sbagliato in lui, ma qualcosa di natura sconosciuta. Il film affronta temi come la natura della famiglia, della casa e delle relazioni fra uomo e donna. Il film comincia ad offuscare la natura del reale e della rappresentazione, coerentemente con le prime opere di Kaufman.
Cookie è una vecchia signora strampalata che, in tuta da ginnastica e gioielli vistosi, vive nella sua casa di Holly Springs, cittadina pigra del Mississippi, stretta tra un locale jazz e la chiesa. Cookie vive sola, con il custode nero, rimpiange il marito morto. Una mattina si mette la sua collana più bella, si mette un cuscino sulla faccia e si spara. Comincia così un gioco di intrighi tessuto dalla nipote Camille e risolto in due giorni di pigre indagini.
Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev’s A Month in the Country. Denis, the director, admires her greatly and promises he’ll make her happy on stage — she will shine. But things don’t go to plan.
30 years ago, Switzerland was shaken by a scandal that seems to have already been forgotten: more than 900,000 people were surveilled because of their political convictions. Against the backdrop of this "secret files scandal," Micha Lewinsky sets his film. Conscientious policeman Viktor Schuler is tasked by his superior to infiltrate the Schauspielhaus, a renowned Zurich theatre, in order to keep an eye on its leftist scene. However, Viktor finds himself quite taken with the artist's life and falls in love with the subversive actress Odile Lehmann.
Turmoil becomes the order of the day when a Mexican theatrical company begins its rehearsals of absurdist philosopher Albert Camus's “Caligula” for an influential upcoming international theater festival.
Una giovane ballerina (Crawford) approda a Broadway e deve scegliere tra due innamorati, un ricco play boy e il direttore del suo spettacolo
It all starts with a bang. The car breaks through the crash barrier and falls off the bridge. The lights go out. After that, he is not able to see anymore. His optic nerve is severed, from now on the young stage-director Jakob is blind. His life will change and nothing will ever be the same. Jakob cannot handle the idea of never being able to see again and screams at the only woman who is able and willing to help him, Lily. A rehabilitation teacher, she helps the blind deal with the darkness. Lily has been living with it since birth, she too is blind.
A look at the entire process of creating and developing Patrice Chéreau’s third staging of "In the Solitude of Cotton Fields" by Bernard Marie Koltès with Pascal Greggory and Chéreau himself. From the first reading around the table through the first contact with the performance space, rehearsals and lighting to opening night, the entire creative process unfurls in front of our eyes. The film shows us the evolving and ongoing dialogue between Greggory and Chéreau, a dialogue full of crises and magical moments of harmony and insight via which the truth, intensity, complexity, mystery and depth of Koltès’ text gradually emerge to form an implicit bond between these two men. The film also shows Chéreau directing rehearsals for Mozart’s "Don Giovanni" in Salzburg, revealing both the unity of and profound differences between his opera and theater work.
When he started as a comedy writer for the Late Show with David Letterman, Steve Young had few interests and not many friends outside of his day job. But while gathering material for a segment on the show, Steve stumbled onto a few vintage record albums that would change his life forever.
Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh country club. Eddie and his girlfriend, actress Ann Stallings, hope the production will launch their legitimate Broadway careers. But complications arise when Maxine Whitaker, daughter of a wealthy rival club owner, becomes romantically interested in charming Eddie.
Documentary that follows events after the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, while looking back on the previous fifteen years, tracing his rise to power. Personal testimony alternates with analysis of a disintegrating society.
A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.
Helena Mora, the head of an eccentric theatrical family, has decided to sell her large estate in the Hamptons because of her recent money troubles. Before she completes the sale, she wants to have one last gathering of family and friends, with dramatic performances. Bringing everyone together, though, creates rivalries and tension, especially for Oona, a temperamental but successful movie actress who seeks the approval of her creative peers.
A stage director is driven to madness during a regional production of Julius Caesar.
A struggling actress becomes entangled in an abusive relationship with her idol at a cult-like New York theatre company.
A widowed theatre director moves to a small Connecticut town where he gets involved in solving the murder of a millionaire, who was the most despised man in town.