Broadway Theatre Archive Movies
- 1982
Working
Working4.31982HD
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...
- 1983
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland71983HD
From the elaborate Broadway revival of the 1932 Eva Le Gallienne/Florida Friebus production comes a whimsical retelling of the Lewis Carroll classic.
- 1970
The Andersonville Trial
The Andersonville Trial6.71970HD
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
- 1974
King Lear
King Lear01974HD
James Earl Jones delivers a riveting performance as paranoid patriarch King Lear, an aging monarch who insists that his three daughters prove their...
- 1976
The Hemingway Play
The Hemingway Play01976HD
A novel portrait of author Ernest Hemingway, in which four versions of the man from different points of his life exist simultaneously.
- 1980
The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance6.11980HD
This Pirates of Penzance is primarily a historical document, part of the Broadway Theater Archive television series. It presents, with some...
- 1980
Big Blonde
Big Blonde51980HD
High-spirited model Hazel decides that she should settle down in this stage play based on a Dorothy Parker short story. But her marriage to traveling...
- 1983
The Skin of Our Teeth
The Skin of Our Teeth101983HD
Production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play "The Skin of Our Teeth," the story of Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus, their children Henry and Gladys,...
- 1973
Steambath
Steambath5.41973HD
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...
- 1982
Fifth of July
Fifth of July71982HD
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...
- 1979
O Youth and Beauty!
O Youth and Beauty!101979HD
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...
- 1966
Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman5.91966HD
Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play.
- 1982
Alice at the Palace
Alice at the Palace5.51982HD
Meryl Streep stars as Alice in this production of Elizabeth Swados' musical, which was adapted from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the...
- 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...
- 1977
Secret Service
Secret Service01977HD
Set in Richmond, Virginia in October 1864, tells the story of a Union spy working to seize control of the telegraph office.
- 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.
- 1990
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
William Shakespeare's Hamlet01990HD
A Danish prince and university student avenges his father's murder by his uncle, who stole the crown and married his mother.
- 1973
Incident at Vichy
Incident at Vichy01973HD
Adapted from Arthur Miller's play, film focuses on a group of Frenchmen who are detained at Vichy, the capital of France while under Nazi occupation,...
- 1981
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories01981HD
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...
- 1979
The Sorrows of Gin
The Sorrows of Gin101979HD
An affluent suburban couple's empty and gin-fueled lives are observed through the eyes of their neglected, eight-year old daughter.