WORLD (PT)

12:00 pm 

Stagestruck: Confessions from Summer Stock   STAGESTRUCK: CONFESSIONS FROM SUMMER STOCK takes a nostalgic look back at the 26-year history of America's first summer stock theater, the Orleans Arena Theatre on Massachusetts' Cape Cod. The one-hour documentary uses dramatic re-enactments, historical photos and engaging interviews with past members to capture the day-to-day challenges and joys of the summer stock experience. Beginning in 1950 and lasting until 1976, temperamental young actors and actresses would live together, work for pennies and do odd jobs in pursuit of refining their craft and creating a professional theatrical production each week. D

1:00 pm 

Nature  "Bears of the Last Frontier: City of Bears"  Washington ecologist Chris Morgan spends a year with Alaskan bears and a camera crew, traveling 3,000 miles on his specially-equipped motorcycle, beginning near Anchorage in June. Morgan, originally from England, sets up a wilderness camp with a cinematographer, alongside the world's largest concentration of grizzlies. He tracks the bears' progress as they feast and re-establish social dynamics, and observes battles among males and tender moments between moms and cubs. Part 1 of 3G

2:00 pm 

Charlie Rose   NULL

3:00 pm 

BBC World News America   NULL

3:30 pm 

Journal   NULL

4:00 pm 

Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater   Nicknamed Texas Tornado, Jones pioneers the regional theater movement during the 1940s and 1950s and champions new playwrights, including Tennessee Williams. The film captures the life and times of this American visionary, weaving together theatrical representations and excerpts from plays with interviews and archival photographs and film.G

5:00 pm 

Stagestruck: Confessions from Summer Stock   STAGESTRUCK: CONFESSIONS FROM SUMMER STOCK takes a nostalgic look back at the 26-year history of America's first summer stock theater, the Orleans Arena Theatre on Massachusetts' Cape Cod. The one-hour documentary uses dramatic re-enactments, historical photos and engaging interviews with past members to capture the day-to-day challenges and joys of the summer stock experience. Beginning in 1950 and lasting until 1976, temperamental young actors and actresses would live together, work for pennies and do odd jobs in pursuit of refining their craft and creating a professional theatrical production each week. D

6:00 pm 

Nature  "Bears of the Last Frontier: City of Bears"  Washington ecologist Chris Morgan spends a year with Alaskan bears and a camera crew, traveling 3,000 miles on his specially-equipped motorcycle, beginning near Anchorage in June. Morgan, originally from England, sets up a wilderness camp with a cinematographer, alongside the world's largest concentration of grizzlies. He tracks the bears' progress as they feast and re-establish social dynamics, and observes battles among males and tender moments between moms and cubs. Part 1 of 3G

7:00 pm 

PBS NewsHour   NULL

8:00 pm 

Nightly Business Report   NULL

8:30 pm 

Journal   NULL

9:00 pm 

Charlie Rose   NULL

10:00 pm 

Stagestruck: Confessions from Summer Stock   STAGESTRUCK: CONFESSIONS FROM SUMMER STOCK takes a nostalgic look back at the 26-year history of America's first summer stock theater, the Orleans Arena Theatre on Massachusetts' Cape Cod. The one-hour documentary uses dramatic re-enactments, historical photos and engaging interviews with past members to capture the day-to-day challenges and joys of the summer stock experience. Beginning in 1950 and lasting until 1976, temperamental young actors and actresses would live together, work for pennies and do odd jobs in pursuit of refining their craft and creating a professional theatrical production each week. D

11:00 pm 

Nature  "Bears of the Last Frontier: City of Bears"  Washington ecologist Chris Morgan spends a year with Alaskan bears and a camera crew, traveling 3,000 miles on his specially-equipped motorcycle, beginning near Anchorage in June. Morgan, originally from England, sets up a wilderness camp with a cinematographer, alongside the world's largest concentration of grizzlies. He tracks the bears' progress as they feast and re-establish social dynamics, and observes battles among males and tender moments between moms and cubs. Part 1 of 3G