Elizabeth Swados

Based on Elizabeth Swados’ picture book of the same name, this animated short film charts one woman's struggle with depression.

Based on Elizabeth Swados’ picture book of the same name, this animated short film charts one woman's struggle with depression.

Based on Elizabeth Swados’ picture book of the same name, this animated short film charts one woman's struggle with depression.

Hank marries the divorced Joan, who's the mother of teens Sebastian and Jessica. After living with his new family for years, Hank announces that he's getting a sex change operation. The family deserts Hank, with Jessica going her own way and Sebastian staying with his mom. But Joan becomes an alcoholic, so Sebastian moves back in with Hank — now Henrietta — who turns out to be far more supportive than anyone else.

With virtually no financial resources, Ellen Stewart created the La Mama theater in New York in 1961, where writers and actors such as Sam Shepard, Elizabeth Swados, and Harvey Fierstein found both encouragement and a home for their work. Includes footage from the early days, interviews and brief excerpts from some of the theater works. Stewart also talks about her experiences as a "colored" working at Saks Fifth Avenue between 1950 and 1957

Un hombre de mediana edad que acaba de perder su empleo es ayudado económicamente por su mujer, que quiere divorciarse de él. Su padre le niega un préstamo y, desesperado, decide mudarse a Nueva York.

Earth is visited by a race of aliens, who issue an ultimatum: either peace or complete destruction.

During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement.

Meryl Streep stars as Alice in this production of Elizabeth Swados' musical, which was adapted from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Based on the acclaimed New York Shakespeare Festival production by Joseph Papp, Alice at the Palace follows Alice's surreal adventures with The Mad Hatter, The March Hare, The Queen of Hearts, and The Cheshire Cat, among many others.

Meryl Streep stars as Alice in this production of Elizabeth Swados' musical, which was adapted from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Based on the acclaimed New York Shakespeare Festival production by Joseph Papp, Alice at the Palace follows Alice's surreal adventures with The Mad Hatter, The March Hare, The Queen of Hearts, and The Cheshire Cat, among many others.

Años 60. Cuatro amigos de clase obrera de un pequeño pueblo de Indiana, encaran su futuro una vez acabado el instituto. Tenemos a Danilo, un inmigrante yugoslavo, que sueña con ser un escritor; a Tom, guapo y atlético, que debe acudir a la llamada del ejército; a David, un chico indeciso que no sabe si quiere unirse al negocio funerario de la familia; y a la encantadora Georgia, que sueña con una vida de aventura bohemia a través de la danza. Sin embargo, la ilusión y el descaro propio de los adolescentes no tarda en chocar frontalmente con la alarmante y convulsa situación que va germinando en Estados Unidos a medida que avanza la década. (FILMAFFINITY)

A conservative, Midwestern farmer rallies his neighbors against a power company planning to erect huge towers across their land, and a political activist schoolteacher helps them organize into an effective bloc.

Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, Richard and Joan Maple. Adapted from a series of stories appearing in the New Yorker Magazine over a period of twenty three years by Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("The Witches of Eastwick", "Rabbit Run"), "Too Far To Go" garnered overwhelming critical praise in its theatrical debut. With its exceptional cast, this film envelops us in a poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes exasperating journey through this most important relationship.