HB Studio Presents: Cleopatra

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

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  • Wed Jun 3 : 

    Hosted by HB Studio at 1:00

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Wednesday, June 3 at 1:00: Screening hosted by HB Studio!

Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Rex Harrison star in this sweeping tale of power and betrayal–the legendary story of the Queen of the Nile and her conquest of Julius Ceasar and Marc Anthony. Here is the truly unforgettable portrayal of the beguiling beauty who seduced two of Rome’s greatest soldiers and changed the course of history. Breathtaking in scope and grandeur, the picture won Oscars for cinematography, art direction, costumes, sets and special effects. In the tradition of epic romantic adventures like Braveheart and Titanic comes the greatest spectacle of all…CLEOPATRA.

About HB Studio:
The educator and actor Herbert Berghof is the founder and namesake of downtown’s HB Studio, NYC’s longest continuously-running acting school. Founded in 1945 with the egalitarian intention of providing a platform to strengthen the skills of New York’s professional and aspiring acting community, HB was also a home base for the three-time Tony Award-winning performer, writer and teacher Uta Hagen for over 50 years. The list of actors who studied at HB Studio is essentially a list of New York theater history: Jack Lemmon, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Matthew Broderick, John Leguizamo, Wallace Shawn, Candice Bergen, Anne Bancroft, Whoopi Goldberg, Barbra Streisand, Stockard Channing, Sarah Jessica Parker and literally thousands more. For this special collaboration with our neighboring West Village theater, the IFC Center, HB will co-host a screening of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1963 epic CLEOPATRA, featuring Berghof in one of his many Hollywood roles.

Throughout HB Studio’s history, we have acted as a home for artists to hone their craft, to promote the value of excellence through effort and to honor the brilliant staff who have made us the longest continually active theater school in New York City. Since HB’s 1945 beginnings, the Studio has been inextricable from the history of American theater, film and television. The spirit that Herbert Berghof, Uta Hagen and hundreds of other teaching artists and creators crafted at HB Studio over the decades has never been limited to our longtime home at 120 Bank Street. For HB Studio’s first annual The Light We Carry Festival, running from May 30 to June 5, HB Studio will host performances, workshops, masterclasses, and other events across the city, inviting our community to appreciate and engage with the talent that HB produces today, to look back on all the work HB has done over the decades and to offer a glimpse of our future. Whether you’re a past student, a current practitioner, curious about becoming a new student or simply want to know more about the tradition of American theater, we invite you to join us for The Light We Carry. Find out more at hbstudio.org

  • Country USA
  • Year 1963
  • Running Time 251 minutes
  • Format DCP
  • Distributor Disney
  • Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • Cast Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, George Cole
  • Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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