Broadway Theatre Archive Movies

  • 1960
    The Iceman Cometh

    The Iceman Cometh

    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...

    The Iceman Cometh
  • 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
  • 1981
    The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories

    The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories

    The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories

    01981HD

    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...

    The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1969
    Let Me Hear You Whisper

    Let Me Hear You Whisper

    Let Me Hear You Whisper

    01969HD

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

    Let Me Hear You Whisper
  • 1974
    June Moon

    June Moon

    June Moon

    01974HD

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

    June Moon
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1976
    The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

    The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

    The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

    8.3331976HD

    The tale of a lonely Southern woman's longing for her handsome next-door neighbor. At once tragic and romantic, the story is a reworking of the...

    The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1979
    The Sorrows of Gin

    The Sorrows of Gin

    The Sorrows of Gin

    101979HD

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

    The Sorrows of Gin
  • 1980
    Big Blonde

    Big Blonde

    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...

    Big Blonde
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1983
    The Skin of Our Teeth

    The Skin of Our Teeth

    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,...

    The Skin of Our Teeth
  • 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
  • 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