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Going global: Helen Mirren stars in 'Phedre' enlarge Tonight, when Nicholas Hytner's National Theatre production of Racine's Phdre, starring Helen Mirren, is broadcast via satellite from the Lyttelton to 70 cinemas in the UK, and 200 around the world, a 21st-century solution will be provided to a perennial question.

The gasps of incredulity and peals of outraged laughter coming from the young women in the row behind me served as potent proof that, 36 years after its premiere, Harold Pinter's play The Homecoming has lost none of its power to affront and fascinate.

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In Section: ON SCREEN >> Posted By: Beth Levin Maybe you've never heard of filmmakers Atom Egoyan and James Toback, but it's time you did.

Wednesday, March 25 at 8:00 PM William Shakespeare's unrelenting tragedy King Lear is widely considered one of the playwright's most enduring and haunting works for the stage.

There's a scene in Kenneth Branagh's film Henry V that reduces grown men to blubbering wrecks.

"Take care of those composition books, Joe. The oral history is my rope, my scaffold, my bed, my board, my wife, my floozy, my wound and the salt on it, my whiskey, my aspirin, my rock and my salvation.