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AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE (PBS, March 20, 22). The anthology series opens its 10th season with a double dose of Broadway: Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim's musical twist on Grimms' fairy tales, and The Grapes of Wrath, the Steppenwolf Theater's adaptation of Steinbeck's Depression novel...
...FRED ASTAIRE SONGBOOK (PBS, March 8, 9 p.m. on most stations). His singing was as heavenly as his dancing, as this wonderful tribute shows...
...COLORED MUSEUM (PBS, Feb. 1, 9 p.m. on most stations). George C. Wolfe's off-Broadway satire of black racial stereotypes makes its TV debut in a Great Performances production starring Danitra Vance and Loretta Devine...
Memories of another, older war -- a war no one knows except from history -- were evoked for millions of Americans last summer by the ravishingly melancholy fiddle and guitar strains that accompanied the PBS series The Civil War. The haunting tune, called Ashokan Farewell, had been composed eight years earlier, one morning at the end of summer, by a lapsed '60s rocker turned upcountry fiddler named Jay Ungar. By wedding its beauty and timelessness to hundreds of graphic still photos, PBS created an affecting combination...
Making Sense of the Sixties has its own generational identity: it is the latest in a growing library of historical documentaries, mostly on PBS, that have mined the film, video and photographic archives to chronicle the American experience. The masterpiece was last fall's The Civil War. But other programs have offered definitive TV accounts of everything from the 1929 stock market crash to the life of Cole Porter. Not a bad legacy for the '90s: the Golden Age of the Documentary...