Esta história se passa em 1930, no momento em que o domínio colonial francês na Indochina está terminando. Uma mulher francesa solteira que trabalha nos campos de borracha, acolhe uma princesa Vietnamita como se ela fosse sua própria filha. Ela e sua filha se apaixonam por um jovem oficial da marinha francesa que mudará significativamente a vida de ambas.
Companhia japonesa de teatro kabuki aporta numa pequena ilha de pescadores. Komajuro (Ganjirô Nakamura), um dos fundadores do grupo, passa a frequentar todos os dias a casa de sua antiga amante, Oyoshi (Haruko Sugimura), dona de um bar e mãe de Kiyoshi (Hiroshi Kawaguchi).
An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all.
At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance exam to the famous acting school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. Launched at full speed into life, passion, and love, together they will experience the turning point of their lives, but also their first tragedy.
Em uma excursão com seu grupo de teatro kabuku, Yukinojo, ator principal da trupe, acaba cruzando com os três homens que levaram seus pais ao suicídio, 20 anos antes. Yukinojo então trama sua vingança, primeiro seduzindo a filha de um deles e depois os levando à ruína.
Anne Goupil é uma jovem parisiense estudante de literatura. Encontra-se por acaso com um grupo de teatro que ensaia arduamente Péricles, de Shakespeare, mesmo sem nenhum recurso financeiro. Ao mesmo tempo em que aceita o desafio de atuar na peça, Anne se descobre completamente envolvida numa misteriosa conspiração política cujos adeptos suicidam-se inesperadamente. O apocalipse iminente desestabiliza todas as suas convicções.
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.
Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers, singers, a trained dog and an educated seal. Harry Clark, the clerk at the rundown Swanzey Hotel, insults Pat and the latter uses the $4000, that he and Molly have been saving for years to buy a retirement farm, to buy the hotel so he can fire Harry. Local skinflint, J.A. Higgins wants the hotel as he knows the state has intentions to buy it for a museum, but Pat won't sell.
A fun journey through the classics of musical theater.
A day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot ahead of the others and the regular cast is fighting for the good parts.
Actor and writer Stephen Fry explores his passion for the world's most controversial composer, Richard Wagner. As a life-long fan can Stephen, who is Jewish and lost family in the Holocaust, salvage Wagner's music from its dark associations with anti-Semitism and Hitler?
A story involving a group of traveling actors who perform at an experimental prison where the thieves have first class comforts provided to them by a reformist warden. Ironically the troupe performs a play named The State Thief, a play about thieves for thieves.
"Third Act" follows a beloved theater troupe facing eviction, prompting them to scheme a bank heist while filming on-site. Combining the humor of 'The Office' with the cinematic essence of 'Birdman', the film intertwines comedy and a behind-the-scenes vibe of the entertainment world.
Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi is a play retelling the Jesus story, with Jesus as a gay man living in the 1950s in Corpus Christi, Texas. This documentary follows the troupe, playwright, and audience around the world on a five-year journey of Terrence McNally’s passion play, where voices of protest and support collide on one of the central issues facing the LGBT community: religion.
In the summer of 2013, a community theatre group from Albuquerque, NM decided to stage a production of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Since the majority of the play takes place in an enchanted forest, the troupe thought it would be a good idea to rehearse in the woods. So they rented a cabin... In the woods... They never returned.
Two people who love each other are separated due to a certain incident. Two years later, the man has become an assassin. A story about an encounter between a fallen couple, a strip troupe, and a human smuggling ring.
This film, based on the play of the same name, portrays the harsh lives of early Saskatchewan settlers and the foundation of the co-op movement on the Prairies.
