TV series
Great Performances
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.
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Checked Sep 1, 2026
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Synopsis
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.
Season 13 episodes
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Episode 3
Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music
Episode credits
Guest stars Lena Horne
Episode 4
The Importance of Being Ernest
In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
Episode credits
Directed by Michael Attenborough, Michael Lindsay-HoggWritten by Oscar WildeGuest stars Wendy Hiller, Gary Bond, Jeremy Clyde, Gabrielle Drake, Ann Thornton, Rosamund Greenwood, Henry Moxon, Alan Hay
Episode 13
Heartbreak House
Re-creation of the Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's 1920 comedy of manners. The troubles of England are parallel with the domestic troubles of Captain Shotover's household.
Episode credits
Directed by Anthony PageWritten by Anthony Page
Episode 24
Grown-Ups
A middle-aged journalist has, at last, grown up - only to find he's trapped in a world of emotional infants.
Episode credits
Directed by John Madden
Episode information updated Sep 3, 2026
More about Great Performances
Cast
Bray PoorNarrator (voice)
Rue McClanahanFaye Precious
Frederick CoffinSecond Guard
Geraldine FitzgeraldMrs.Atkins
Frank LangellaKonstantin Treplev
Charles KimbroughDr.Spiga
Stephen SondheimSelfProduction details
- Status
- Returning Series
- Series type
- Scripted
- Episodes
- 717
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
PBSUnited States
ThirteenUnited States
