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Cantankerous theatre critic Sheridan Whiteside falls on an icy sidewalk, breaks his hip, and is temporarily stranded at the Ohio home of Richard Stanley and his family. While he's there, Whiteside turns life upside-down for everyone.

Tantalus: Behind the Mask follows the tumultuous creation of one of the most ambitious feats in the modern theatre -- the 12-hour recreation of the Epic Cycle, the sprawling Greek creation story which spawned all of Greek mythology. The production became a struggle between writer John Barton and director Sir Peter Hall, who had been fast friends since founding the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1961, but left the battlefields of Tantalus bitter enemies.

A one woman documentary play based on hundreds of interviews conducted after the riots that followed the 1992 acquittal of the police officers who beat Rodney King. This is a film adaptation of the play, directed by Mark Levine with additional documentary footage.

Set in 1954, Far East is the story of a young Naval officer, who is the heir to a Milwaukee beer fortune, on tour of duty in occupied Japan. He becomes trapped between his love for a beautiful Japanese woman and his family's value system, which he is trying to escape. With clever echoes of Madame Butterfly and From Here to Eternity, tensions mount at the collision of East with West, past with present, and duty with passion in this beautifully-crafted play.