Robert Westenberg

Существует ли в мире семья, счастливая на сто процентов? Вероятно, нет. Ничто на нашей бренной земле не совершенно. И каждому приходится своими способами искать и личное счастье, и жизненное благополучие… На дворе 1973 год: сексуальная революция в разгаре. Семейная пара — Бен и Елена, переживают переломный момент супружества. Глава семьи Бен спит с соседкой Джени, а его дочка Уэнди играет в сексуальные игры с соседскими ребятами — сыновьями папиной любовницы. Елена подозревает мужа в измене. В канун Дня Благодарения погода внезапно портится, как и отношения всех героев. Приближается ледяной шторм, которому предстоит выступить судьей в запутанной игре человеческих страстей…

The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he convinces himself and local Don Day that there is oil on Day's land. The financially strapped Day puts everything into finding oil...but at what cost?

A collection of fairy tale characters head into the woods, and soon learn that fairy tales don't end at "happily ever after." This rendition of Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning musical was recorded on the stage with its original all-star Broadway cast. Originally broadcast as part of "American Playhouse" on PBS (season ten, episode one).

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte by Georges Seurat is one of the great paintings of the world, and in "Sunday in the Park with George," book writer James Lapine and composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim bring a story based on the work brilliantly to life. While the painting depicts people gathered on an island in the Seine, the musical goes beyond simply describing their lives. It is an exploration of art, of love, of commitment. Seurat connected dots to create images; Lapine and Sondheim use connection as the heart of all our relationships. Winner of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Originally broadcast as part of "American Playhouse" on PBS (season five, episode nineteen).

A soldier can not return home after he leaves the army, and can not find a job. Desperation drives him to make a deal with the Devil, who makes a bet with him. For the next seven years, he will carry a purse of gold that's always full. However, he must wear a bearskin and neither pray nor wash nor cut his hair in all that time. If he survives, he can keep the purse, but if he dies, the Devil gets his soul.