Great Performances

About Great Performances

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.

PBS's Great Performances is a comedy and documentary series. The series is filed under based on play or musical, literary adaptation, filmed theater, and anthology.

Since January 1971 it has reached 53 seasons and 717 episodes. It is still in production. Seasons run to about 14 episodes.

Bray Poor plays Narrator (voice). The story is adapted from a novel.

In the United States it streams on PBS, Thirteen, and WETA+. Theatre Macabre, American Horror Story, and The Sinner make useful companions to Great Performances. It carries a TV-G rating.