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 16 episodes
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Episode 2
Episode 2
Episode credits
Guest stars Anne-Maree McDonald, Suzanne Johnston, Don Shanks, Bernadette Cullen
Episode 3
Monsignor Quixote
In this modern adaptation of the Don Quixote theme based on a novel by Graham Greene, Quixote is an old Spanish village priest who travels through Spain with his friend, Sancho, the village's mayor and his car called Rocinante. On their way he has to master the same adventures as his ancestor.
Episode credits
Directed by Rodney BennettGuest stars Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Ian Richardson, Graham Crowden, Maurice Denham, Philip Stone, Rosalie Crutchley, Valentine Pelka
Episode 4
Celebrating Gershwin: The Jazz Age
Episode credits
Guest stars James Stewart, Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Dreyfuss, Sally Field, Katharine Hepburn, Gene Kelly, Walter Matthau, Nancy Reagan
Episode 5
Broadway Sings: The Music of Jule Styne
Musical salute to composer Jule Styne.
Episode credits
Guest stars Carol Channing, Jack Klugman, Patti Austin, Sammy Cahn, Betty Comden, Diahann Carroll, Hal Linden, Mariette Hartley
Episode 7
Episode 7
Episode credits
Guest stars Plácido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Nicolai Ghiaurov, David Langan, Stefania Toczyska, Ingvar Wixell
Episode 8
The Music Makers: An ASCAP Celebration of American Music at Wolf Trap
Episode credits
Guest stars Nick Ashford, Patti Austin, Tony Bennett, Sammy Cahn, Cy Coleman, Judy Collins, Clamma Dale, Sammy Fain
Episode 9
Episode 9
A Hollywood actress who worries that the movie world is eroding her grip on reality is drawn into a love affair with an ordinary - and married - guy.
Episode credits
Directed by Paul BogartWritten by John O'Hara, Andy WolkGuest stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Héctor Elizondo, George Murdock, Holland Taylor, Bryan Montgomery, David Ackroyd, Brian Kerwin
Episode 10
Episode 10
Episode credits
Guest stars Madeline Kahn, Nigel Kennedy, Julia Migenes, Leonard Bernstein
Episode 11
Episode 11
Episode credits
Guest stars Drew Barrymore, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregg Burge, Bob Dylan, Damon Evans, Michael Feinstein, Jascha Heifetz, Rosemary Clooney
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
