The James Bridges Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)

The 18th-century shenanigans of one long night in the British countryside come to the James Bridges Theatre in this HD video broadcast beamed over from England. A National Theatre Live production, this event provides the unique opportunity to watch live theater being performed across the ocean, and to see some of Britain’s best actors stage a classic British high comedy. Written by Oliver Goldsmith in 1773, the play itself is a masterpiece of early British comedy in which Charles Marlow and a friend travel to wealthy countryman Mr. Hardcastle’s manor in hopes that Marlow might woo the young Kate Hardcastle — among numerous other subplots, mixups, mistaken identities and more. Learn more…

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