Broadway Theatre Archive Movies
- 1980
The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance6.1111980HD
This Pirates of Penzance is primarily a historical document, part of the Broadway Theater Archive television series. It presents, with some...
- 1966
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real01966HD
A collection of ten vignettes by Tennessee Williams offering various viewpoints on life, love, and death.
- 1976
The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew6.91976HD
San Francisco's prize-winning American Conservatory Theater's rowdy commedia dell'arte production incorporates slapstick, pratfall and earthy humor...
- 1960
Play of the Week: Rashomon
Play of the Week: Rashomon71960HD
Several different accounts of the same incident tell quite different stories about what happened.
- 1966
The Journey of the Fifth Horse
The Journey of the Fifth Horse01966HD
Dustin Hoffman stars in this television adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's tale about Dmitri Zoditch, a simple manuscript reader at a publishing house...
- 1960
The Master Builder
The Master Builder01960HD
Famed playwright Henrik Ibsen tells the tale of a master builder in the twilight of his career who reaches for love in response to his work's demise.
- 1971
The Price
The Price01971HD
After the Great Depression, Victor Franz gave up going to college to support his father. After 30 years, Victor returns to sell his parents’...
- 1974
A Touch of the Poet
A Touch of the Poet01974HD
Cornelius "Con" Melody is an Irish tavern keeper in New England who lives in reverence of his former days as a nobleman and decorated officer in the...
- 1976
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale71976HD
The tale of a lonely Southern woman's longing for her handsome next-door neighbor. At once tragic and romantic, the story is a reworking of the...
- 1982
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf101982HD
The powerful tales of seven diverse African-American women are woven together in this 1982 performance of Ntozake Shange's Obie Award-winning...
- 1978
The Good Doctor
The Good Doctor0.51978HD
A writer (made to resemble Russian playwright Anton Chekhov) narrates a collection of his stories, all of which are written in the style of Chekhov.
- 1976
The Time of Your Life
The Time of Your Life01976HD
William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the...
- 1976
The Last of Mrs. Lincoln
The Last of Mrs. Lincoln01976HD
The Last of Mrs. Lincoln depicts the final seventeen years of Mary Todd Lincoln's life, following her husband's assassination.
- 1972
Awake and Sing!
Awake and Sing!01972HD
The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a...
- 1969
Let Me Hear You Whisper
Let Me Hear You Whisper01969HD
A scrub-woman attempts to rescue a dolphin who will talk to no one but her from a research laboratory.
- 1976
Six Characters in Search of An Author
Six Characters in Search of An Author61976HD
A rehearsal is disrupted when six figures mysteriously appear on the stage, claiming to be fictional characters from an unfinished play searching for...
- 1960
The Iceman Cometh
The Iceman Cometh71960HD
Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes by-yearly visits to Harry Hope's 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical drinking binges. But on this...
- 1966
An Enemy of the People
An Enemy of the People01966HD
Set in a Norwegian hamlet, an idealistic physician discovers that the town's hot springs are contaminated. But with the community relying on the spa...
- 1972
Another Part of the Forest
Another Part of the Forest01972HD
A television adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play about the Hubbards, a rich Southern family of greedy, ruthless individuals.
- 1975
Beyond the Horizon
Beyond the Horizon01975HD
On a Connecticut farm, James Mayo's two sons both love Ruth Atkins. Robert, the younger son, is sickly and dreams of escaping to a romantic life...