National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera
Sep 22, 2016 | IMDB 5.5
171 min Watch NowComedy, Music
As London's East End scrubs up for the coronation, Mr and Mrs Peachum gear up for a bumper day in the beggary business. Keeping tight control of the city's underground – and their daughter’s whereabouts.
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Hairspray Live!
Anyone Can Whistle
Rent
True West
National Theatre Live: People
National Theatre Live: The Magistrate
Funny Girl
Come from Away
Miss Saigon : 25th Anniversary Performance
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Death Takes a Holiday
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National Theatre Live: Top Girls
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IMDB 7.5 | Apr , 2013
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IMDB 0 | Jun , 2021
Southern beauty Linda Lee Thomas was the driving force behind legendary songwriter Cole Porter. Though Porter was gay, their companionship and love lasted through 35 years of marriage. With innovative arrangements, Cole Porter's timeless songs weave through the narrative, celebrating their love while examining the darker sides of their glamorous lives.Poe the Musical
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2020
A new musical chronicling the life of America's great literary icon, Edgar Allan Poe, as he rises from the grave to reconcile his life and fix his tarnished legacy.Private Lives
IMDB 10 | Dec , 2013
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.Hairspray Live!
IMDB 7.3 | Dec , 2016
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 1995
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IMDB 6.7 | Jan , 2019
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IMDB 7.5 | Feb , 1984
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IMDB 8 | Mar , 2013
People spoil things; there are so many of them and the last thing one wants is them traipsing through one’s house. But with the park a jungle and a bath on the billiard table, what is one to do? Dorothy wonders if an attic sale could be a solution.National Theatre Live: The Magistrate
IMDB 6 | Jan , 2013
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IMDB 7.6 | Sep , 2021
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IMDB 8 | Sep , 2016
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IMDB 7.2 | Oct , 2008
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IMDB 0 | Mar , 2019
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IMDB 6 | Jun , 2020
One-man stage performance by English stage and screen actor Sir Ian McKellen. McKellen reprises roles over his career in the theatre (such as the works of William Shakespeare) and on film (such as Gandalf in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings film series), while discussing anecdotes throughout his life and career.Enemies
IMDB 0 | Nov , 1971
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IMDB 9 | May , 2023
In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the unruly liberal Gore Vidal. During a new nightly television format, they debate the moral landscape of a shattered nation.