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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Houseman

From the elaborate Broadway revival of the 1932 Eva Le Gallienne/Florida Friebus production comes a whimsical retelling of the Lewis Carroll classic.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kate Burton

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sam Waterston

After the Great Depression, Victor Franz gave up going to college to support his father. After 30 years, Victor returns to sell his parents’...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George C. Scott

This drama tells the story of Irish insurgents and the captured British soldiers whom they are assigned to guard. While confined to a remote...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frank Converse

In this rousing satire a native upstate New York clerk comes to 1920s Manhattan with dreams of making in big on Tin Pan Alley.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Susan Sarandon

These dueling one-act comedies highlight the work of playwright John Mortimer. In "The Dock Brief," an ill-prepared attorney is put to the test when...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michael Hordern

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

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

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Cameron Mitchell

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

This Pirates of Penzance is primarily a historical document, part of the Broadway Theater Archive television series.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

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

An affluent suburban couple's empty and gin-fueled lives are observed through the eyes of their neglected, eight-year old daughter.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sigourney Weaver

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruth White

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

Oscar Wilde's five years at hard labor in Reading Gaol where he was imprisoned for being a sodomite.

Genre: Drama

Cast: JoBeth Williams

Three Irwin Shaw short stories are dramatized. In "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" a young married couple stop for a drink on a Sunday morning in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeff Bridges

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

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

This charming musical comedy, set in turn-of-the-century Paris and based on George Feydeau's classic romp, "Tailleur Pour Dames," turns on a case of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Max Wright