In 2006, Benjamin had a staged on-screen rivalry with then-Intercontinental Champion Ric Flair.
PBS continues to be an important source of televised theater through "PBS Hollywood Presents" from KCET, "Stage on Screen" from Thirteen/WNET and "ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theater's American Collection" from WGBH.
On May 20, "Stage on Screen" will present the A.R. Gurney drama "Far East".
The centrepiece of the arrangement was a live streamed metronome looming ominously over the stage on screen.
In New York, WNET (Channel 13) will present the plays next season when it inaugurates its new PBS drama series "Stage on Screen" on a date to be announced.
But "The Women" -- Clare Boothe Luce's 1936 play revived on the New York stage last fall and taped in January for PBS's "Stage on Screen" -- is so much more.
Tonight PBS presents a 90-minute special, "Stage on Screen: Beckett on Film" (10 p.m., Channel 13; check local listings), which includes seven of the plays, including one of the project's most stunning.
CBS, Saturdays at 10, starting Oct. 7. "STAGE ON SCREEN: THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER" A live performance of the current Broadway production of the Kaufman and Hart play, with Nathan Lane and Jean Smart.
Jac Venza, executive producer of "Stage on screen" and director of culture and arts programming for Channel 13, said that WNET was especially interested in the Anna Deavere Smith performance because of its timeliness and its blend of theater and documentary elements.
Tonight's production, a slightly altered version of a film that had its premiere at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, is part of WNET's "Stage on Screen," a series that seeks to bring theatrical drama to television.
In the 70s, along came Bob, an actor that told it like it was, played straight from the soul and was equally adept in Guys and Dolls and The Duchess of Malfi, The Long Good Friday and Pennies from Heaven, on stage, on screen and on TV.
