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An aging Southern belle's preoccupation with her past and her dreams for her children's futures threaten to smother her painfully shy daughter and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katharine Hepburn

This Pirates of Penzance is primarily a historical document, part of the Broadway Theater Archive television series. It presents, with some...

Genre: Music

Cast: Kevin Kline

San Francisco's prize-winning American Conservatory Theater's rowdy commedia dell'arte production incorporates slapstick, pratfall and earthy humor...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marc Singer

A television adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play about the Hubbards, a rich Southern family of greedy, ruthless individuals.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Barry Sullivan

Donald Moffat stars in Moliere's classic comedy about lovable scoundrel Tartuffe, who befriends the wealthy Orgon and then attempts to seduce both...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald Moffat

Producer-director Glenn Jordan brought together two Tennessee Williams plays, written twenty years apart, that examine the theme of isolation with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kim Stanley

A collection of ten vignettes by Tennessee Williams offering various viewpoints on life, love, and death.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Aldredge

Tandy, Merideth and assorted others unexpectedly wake up in a steambath with no easy exit. After spending some time there, it becomes clear that the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stephen Elliott

A rehearsal is disrupted when six figures mysteriously appear on the stage, claiming to be fictional characters from an unfinished play searching for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Houseman

This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker's viewpoint--showing that he or she is anything but average. Based on a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Studs Terkel

Ken Talley, a Vietnam vet who lost his legs in combat, lives in a farmhouse in rural Missouri with his lover, Jed. Traumatized and bitter, Ken...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Thomas

Meryl Streep stars as Alice in this production of Elizabeth Swados' musical, which was adapted from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Meryl Streep

Dramatist Luigi Pirandello's mordant comedy of manners tells the tale of upper-crust Italians Silia Gala and her sneering spouse, Leone, who finds...

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Cast: Glenn Close

James Earl Jones delivers a riveting performance as paranoid patriarch King Lear, an aging monarch who insists that his three daughters prove their...

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Cast: James Earl Jones

Cash Bentley and his wife Louise lead an average upper-middle-class life in suburbia, with a nice home and two fine children. But Cash grows...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Murphy

Henry Flipper is the first black West Point graduate. Assigned to serve at Fort Davis in Texas, Flipper becomes the object of a conspiracy by his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Franklyn Seales

A young Irish ward boss has a chance to be elected mayor, but the disgraced current mayor makes sure the candidate's wife learns about his affair...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Faye Dunaway

Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull" is brought to life in this acclaimed 1975 production directed by John Desmond. Seeking to reform the theater,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Blythe Danner

Several different accounts of the same incident tell quite different stories about what happened.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Osceola Archer

A Danish prince and university student avenges his father's murder by his uncle, who stole the crown and married his mother.

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Cast: Kevin Kline