Cris Groenendaal

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justice system. Todd confides in Nellie Lovett, the owner of a local meat pie shop, and the two become partners, as Todd swears revenge on those that have wronged him and decides to take up his old profession.

The days leading up to the completion of his most famous painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat is struggling to make meaningful art and maintaining a relationship with his lover, Dot. Amid the scorn of the artistic community, Seurat's artistic ability thrives while his love diminishes. A century later, Seurat's descendant – named George and also an artist – finds himself burnt out and in search of what artistic path to follow, but he finds the answer to his future in the past.

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star. (Live recording of the original Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, by the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive of the New York Public Library.)

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.