Movies: Broadway Theatre Archive

  • 1976
    The Time of Your Life

    The Time of Your Life (1976)

    The Time of Your Life

    01976HD

    William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the characters drift in and out of the bar and each other's lives, giving voice to Saroyan's philosophies a...

    The Time of Your Life
  • 1966
    Death of a Salesman

    Death of a Salesman (1966)

    Death of a Salesman

    5.91966HD

    Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's long-suffering wife Linda, and Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life....

    Death of a Salesman
  • 1973
    Steambath

    Steambath (1973)

    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 is a sort of Afterlife, where indifferent souls come to tell their stories to God who happe...

    Steambath
  • 1973
    Carola

    Carola (1973)

    Carola

    61973HD

    Norman Lloyd directed this televised production of Jean Renoir's World War II-era play. Taking place backstage at a theatrical performance in Nazi-occupied France, Carola is a tale of passion and intrigue that involves a beautiful stage actress and h...

    Carola
  • 1982
    Working

    Working (1982)

    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 series of interviews with real working people--construction workers, waitresses, firemen, secretaries...

    Working
  • 1974
    Enemies

    Enemies (1974)

    Enemies

    01974HD

    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 a strike, they decide to close down the factory. When an owner is slain in a scuffle with a workman,...

    Enemies
  • 1973
    The Glass Menagerie

    The Glass Menagerie (1973)

    The Glass Menagerie

    7.61973HD

    Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past. Her son plans escape; her daughter withdraws into a dream world. When a gentleman caller appears, things move to crisis point....

    The Glass Menagerie
  • 1966
    An Enemy of the People

    An Enemy of the People (1966)

    An Enemy of the People

    01966HD

    Set in a Norwegian hamlet, an idealistic physician discovers that the town's hot springs are contaminated. But with the community relying on the spa for tourist dollars, his warning to the powers-that-be falls on deaf ears....

    An Enemy of the People
  • 1974
    King Lear

    King Lear (1974)

    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 love for him, only to learn he's exalted the two who seek to destroy him. This live performance record...

    King Lear
  • 1960
    The Iceman Cometh

    The Iceman Cometh (1960)

    The Iceman Cometh

    7.11960HD

    Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes by-yearly visits to Harry Hope's 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical drinking binges. But on this visit he has decided to try to save the bar's patrons from their "lying pipe dreams."...

    The Iceman Cometh
  • 1980
    Big Blonde

    Big Blonde (1980)

    Big Blonde

    51980HD

    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 salesman Herbie Morse fails to satisfy her due to his alcoholism and frequent absences. Dispirited a...

    Big Blonde
  • 1960
    Play of the Week: Rashomon

    Play of the Week: Rashomon (1960)

    Play of the Week: Rashomon

    71960HD

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

    Play of the Week: Rashomon
  • 1983
    The Skin of Our Teeth

    The Skin of Our Teeth (1983)

    The Skin of Our Teeth

    101983HD

    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, and their maid Sabina. They are simultaneously a typical American family living in a present-day New J...

    The Skin of Our Teeth
  • 1978
    The Good Doctor

    The Good Doctor (1978)

    The Good Doctor

    0.51978HD

    A writer (made to resemble Russian playwright Anton Chekhov) narrates a collection of his stories, all of which are written in the style of Chekhov....

    The Good Doctor
  • 1983
    Alice in Wonderland

    Alice in Wonderland (1983)

    Alice in Wonderland

    6.81983HD

    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
  • 1974
    A Touch of the Poet

    A Touch of the Poet (1974)

    A Touch of the Poet

    01974HD

    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 British army during the Napoleonic wars. Impoverished now, he struts about in his uniform and plots t...

    A Touch of the Poet
  • 1975
    The Seagull

    The Seagull (1975)

    The Seagull

    01975HD

    Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull" is brought to life in this acclaimed 1975 production directed by John Desmond. Seeking to reform the theater, Konstantin (Frank Langella) has written an experimental play with the lead to be acted by his beloved, Ni...

    The Seagull
  • 1972
    Awake and Sing!

    Awake and Sing! (1972)

    Awake and Sing!

    01972HD

    The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a better future in this 1972 production of Clifford Odets' pungent play. Personalities and politics clas...

    Awake and Sing!
  • 1959
    Back to Back

    Back to Back (1959)

    Back to Back

    01959HD

    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 his client confesses to killing his wife. In "What Shall We Tell Caroline?" a father with good intent...

    Back to Back
  • 1970
    The Andersonville Trial

    The Andersonville Trial (1970)

    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