Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends

Matthew Bourne: Swan Lake

Director and choreographer Matthew Bourne's radical reworking of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. The score remains the same, but the famous corps de balle...

Performing Arts | Bitesize Secondary

In this programme, the performing arts are explored through behind the scene looks at Phantom of the Opera, Strictly Come Dancing, and a...

DV8 Physical Theatre's: Strange Fish

A reworking of the stage production by choreographer Lloyd Newson and filmmaker David Hinton. In a style that challenges-and perhaps sho...

The National Theatre: Part One - The Dream | Arena

First of two documentaries celebrating the National Theatre's 50th anniversary, with contributions from artistic directors...

Acting Around Words

Frantic Assembly and Cardboard Citizens are among the theatre companies revealing how actors and directors transform performances with movement, gesture,...

One Night in 2012 | imagine...

Alan Yentob tells the story of London's Olympic Opening Ceremony as seen through the eyes of its artistic director Danny Boyle and his creativ...

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Top silent screen couple Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont face disaster when their latest movie is made into a talkie, as both the technology and Lina...

Blood, Sweat and Cheer

Can Team Wales win against cheerleading superstars Team USA? After months of training, this squad of disabled and non-disabled athletes have one chanc...

The Dark Side of Ballet Schools | Panorama

Panorama investigates claims of bullying and body shaming at two of the UK's top ballet schools, The Royal Ballet School in London...

04: Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' | Broadway: The American Musical

Hits of the 1940s and 1950s, including Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, and Th...

10: Whigfield and Beyonce | Pop's Greatest Dance Crazes

Whigfield reveals why she does not join in the Saturday Night dance. Plus an interview with Beyonce's Single Ladies c...

DV8 Physical Theatre | Ex-S

Interview with Lloyd Newson, choreographer of DV8 Physical Theatre, and Nigel Charnock, performer with DV8. They discuss and demonstrate unconven...

Enter Achilles | 2 Dance

''Enter Achilles'', choreographed by Lloyd Newson. A Boys' Own adventure that turns into a nightmare, as a group of men in a pub explore the thin li...

LIFT: The London International Festival of Theatre

Preview of the 5th London International Festival of Theatre, which presents international plays, musicals, dance, workshop...

Performing Arts 1 | The Learning Zone

This programme explores ways of working, how to get into performing arts and how to get: a range of opportunities, jobs and roles, gett...

The National Theatre: Part Two - War and Peace | Arena

Peter Hall, Richard Eyre, Trevor Nunn and Nicholas Hytner talk about running the new National Theatre from its opening...

01: Give My Regards to Broadway | Broadway: The American Musical

History of the Broadway musical, presented by Julie Andrews. Includes the story of the Ziegfeld Follies, Irv...

01: Life is a Cabaret | Fosse/Verdon

Exploring the partnership of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, beginning in 1966 with Fosse directing the film Sweet Charity, starring Shirley ...

02: Syncopated City | Broadway: The American Musical

This program explores the Roaring Twenties, featuring the Marx Brothers, Al Jolson, the Gershwins, and Rodgers & Hart. H...

02: Who's Got the Pain? | Fosse/Verdon

Gwen is in Majorca with Joan to reflect on her relationship with Bob, who she has caught being unfaithful. She reflects on how she met...