Broadway Theatre Archive Movies

  • 1982
    Working

    Working

    Working

    4.31982HD

    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...

    Working
  • 1974
    King Lear

    King Lear

    King Lear

    01974HD

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

    King Lear
  • 1973
    The Glass Menagerie

    The Glass Menagerie

    The Glass Menagerie

    7.61973HD

    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...

    The Glass Menagerie
  • 1983
    Alice in Wonderland

    Alice in Wonderland

    Alice in Wonderland

    71983HD

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

    Alice in Wonderland
  • 1970
    The Andersonville Trial

    The Andersonville Trial

    The Andersonville Trial

    6.71970HD

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

    The Andersonville Trial
  • 1983
    The Skin of Our Teeth

    The Skin of Our Teeth

    The Skin of Our Teeth

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    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,...

    The Skin of Our Teeth
  • 1976
    The Taming of the Shrew

    The Taming of the Shrew

    The Taming of the Shrew

    6.91976HD

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

    The Taming of the Shrew
  • 1980
    Big Blonde

    Big Blonde

    Big Blonde

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    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...

    Big Blonde
  • 1977
    Secret Service

    Secret Service

    Secret Service

    01977HD

    Set in Richmond, Virginia in October 1864, tells the story of a Union spy working to seize control of the telegraph office.

    Secret Service
  • 1973
    Steambath

    Steambath

    Steambath

    5.41973HD

    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...

    Steambath
  • 1990
    William Shakespeare's Hamlet

    William Shakespeare's Hamlet

    William Shakespeare's Hamlet

    01990HD

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

    William Shakespeare's Hamlet
  • 1974
    Nourish the Beast

    Nourish the Beast

    Nourish the Beast

    01974HD

    Baba Goya is a loudmouth mother who goes through husbands and orphans like the Turkish coffee she makes in a dirty old soup pan. In Queens she...

    Nourish the Beast
  • 1980
    The Pirates of Penzance

    The Pirates of Penzance

    The Pirates of Penzance

    6.11980HD

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

    The Pirates of Penzance
  • 1978
    Tartuffe

    Tartuffe

    Tartuffe

    01978HD

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

    Tartuffe
  • 1973
    Incident at Vichy

    Incident at Vichy

    Incident at Vichy

    01973HD

    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,...

    Incident at Vichy
  • 1976
    The Hemingway Play

    The Hemingway Play

    The Hemingway Play

    01976HD

    A novel portrait of author Ernest Hemingway, in which four versions of the man from different points of his life exist simultaneously.

    The Hemingway Play
  • 1979
    The Five Forty-Eight

    The Five Forty-Eight

    The Five Forty-Eight

    01979HD

    An advertising man, emotionally estranged from his wife and those around him, has seduced and then fired and discarded his secretary. She pursues him...

    The Five Forty-Eight
  • 1982
    Alice at the Palace

    Alice at the Palace

    Alice at the Palace

    5.51982HD

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

    Alice at the Palace
  • 1982
    Fifth of July

    Fifth of July

    Fifth of July

    71982HD

    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...

    Fifth of July
  • 1976
    The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

    The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

    The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

    01976HD

    The Last of Mrs. Lincoln depicts the final seventeen years of Mary Todd Lincoln's life, following her husband's assassination.

    The Last of Mrs. Lincoln