Season 53 • Episode 10
LatestIn this new adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel set shortly before the outbreak of World War II, two Jewish cousins invent an anti-fascist superhero and launch their own comic-book series, hoping to recruit America into the fight against Nazism.
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
Production
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Acting
Legends doing the work that made them legends.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series has survived six PBS rebrands and somehow still uses the same theme music from 1985.
Before Hamilton made theater TikTok-viral, Great Performances was the only way most Americans saw live Broadway—making it arguably the most influential arts program in U.S. television history.
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