Broadway Theatre Archive Popular Movie

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

genus: Drama

cast: John Houseman

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

genus: Adventure

cast: Meryl Streep

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...

genus: Drama

cast: Donald Moffat

William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the...

genus: Drama

cast: Benjamin Hendrickson

Frank Chin's edgy story breaks down the stereotypes of Asian Americans and centers on San Francisco Chinatown tour operator Fred Eng. Eng hides his...

genus: Drama

cast: George Takei

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

genus: Comedy

cast: Donald Moffat

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...

genus: Drama

cast: Stephen Elliott

The powerful tales of seven diverse African-American women are woven together in this 1982 performance of Ntozake Shange's Obie Award-winning...

genus: Drama

cast: Sarita Allen

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

Don Pedro and his men (Teddy Roosevelt Roughriders) have returned from the wars. After Beatrice turns down his proposal, Don Pedro decides to...

genus: Comedy

cast: Sam Waterston

Drawn from the diaries and letters of noted feminists, such as women's suffrage founder Elizabeth Cady Stanton and labor organizer "Mother" Mary...

genus: Drama

cast: Maureen Anderman

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

Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play.

genus: Drama

cast: Lee J. Cobb

Real-life couple Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson star in this 1971 television adaptation of Murray Schisgal's moving play, in which married law student...

genus: Comedy

cast: Anne Jackson

A scrub-woman attempts to rescue a dolphin who will talk to no one but her from a research laboratory.

genus: Drama

cast: Ruth White

A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.

genus: TV Movie

cast: Cameron Mitchell

This 1977 drama by Phillip Hayes Dean, deals with the sad division between what a man hopes for and what he achieves. In the title role, Dick Anthony...

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cast: Chip Fields

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

genus: Drama

cast: Tom Aldredge

In a sun-dappled garden in provincial Russia in 1905, some factory owners and their wives discuss the unrest among the workers. Rather than submit to...

genus: Drama

cast: Frances Sternhagen

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

genus: Music

cast: Kevin Kline