Interactives & Extras

Lady Gaga calls the PBS concert Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE "my favorite television performance that I've ever done." She describes the quality of the musicianship on stage under jazz legend Tony Bennett's leadership, and Bennett gives her career advice for ...

"This is the most important album of my career," says pop star Lady Gaga about Cheek to Cheek. In this interview with footage from recording sessions, Lady Gaga says that she actually sang jazz before she sang pop. Jazz legend Tony Bennett says, "For jazz ...

Opera director Robert Carsen's production of Falstaff is a special one you won't want to miss, with vivid costumes by Brigitte Reiffenstuel and a setting in 1950s England that winks at the eras of Shakespeare and Verdi. Colors pop in the Formica kitchen, pomp reigns ...

After a decade-long hiatus from songwriting, superstar Sting talks to Paula Zahn about his creative process for “The Last Ship,” his Broadway-bound musical. Sting recently previewed his score for the show with the release of his latest album, as well as with an intimate concert ...

By DANIEL ROSENTHAL Daniel Rosenthal, author of The National Theatre Story, the definitive new history of the National Theatre of Great Britain, looks back at the original productions of ten of its most celebrated shows, as featured in Great Performances: 50 Years on Stage, airing ...

Christopher Plummer talks to Paula Zahn about his remarkable performance as the fabled but faded star John Barrymore in his twilight days, which you can see in the GREAT PERFORMANCES presentation of “Barrymore.”

The Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrews, introduced millions of Americans to Austria's Alpine landscape and the charming streets, palaces and convent in Salzburg. More recently, Andrews has helped spotlight landmarks of Vienna, Austria's capital and largest city, in the New Year's Day broadcast, From ...

Using Shakespeare’s Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 as your map, follow the history of rebellion in turn of the 15th century England and the successive stories of three kings: Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V. Richard II (Click ...