Broadway Theatre Archive Movies

  • 1973
    Steambath

    Steambath

    Steambath

    5.4291973HD

    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
  • 1973
    Carola

    Carola

    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...

    Carola
  • 1973
    The Glass Menagerie

    The Glass Menagerie

    The Glass Menagerie

    7.71973HD

    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
  • 1972
    Another Part of the Forest

    Another Part of the Forest

    Another Part of the Forest

    01972HD

    A television adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play about the Hubbards, a rich Southern family of greedy, ruthless individuals.

    Another Part of the Forest
  • 1980
    The Pirates of Penzance

    The Pirates of Penzance

    The Pirates of Penzance

    5.91980HD

    This Pirates of Penzance is primarily a historical document, part of the Broadway Theater Archive television series.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
  • 1960
    The Master Builder

    The Master Builder

    The Master Builder

    01960HD

    Famed playwright Henrik Ibsen tells the tale of a master builder in the twilight of his career who reaches for love in response to his work's demise.

    The Master Builder
  • 1970
    The Andersonville Trial

    The Andersonville Trial

    The Andersonville Trial

    6.6671970HD

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

    The Andersonville Trial
  • 1975
    Knuckle

    Knuckle

    Knuckle

    01975HD

    Curley Delafield, a young arms merchant, is determined to discover the secret behind the disappearance of his sister Sarah.

    Knuckle
  • 1972
    Scarecrow

    Scarecrow

    Scarecrow

    81972HD

    Just before the Salem Witch Trials, an embittered old woman, who has learned witchcraft, teams up with the Devil, and brings a scarecrow to life as...

    Scarecrow
  • 1974
    Enemies

    Enemies

    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...

    Enemies
  • 1975
    The Rules of the Game

    The Rules of the Game

    The Rules of the Game

    01975HD

    Dramatist Luigi Pirandello's mordant comedy of manners tells the tale of upper-crust Italians Silia Gala and her sneering spouse, Leone, who finds...

    The Rules of the Game
  • 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
  • 1982
    For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

    For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

    For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

    101982HD

    The powerful tales of seven diverse African-American women are woven together in this 1982 performance of Ntozake Shange's Obie Award-winning...

    For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
  • 1976
    Six Characters in Search of An Author

    Six Characters in Search of An Author

    Six Characters in Search of An Author

    61976HD

    A rehearsal is disrupted when six figures mysteriously appear on the stage, claiming to be fictional characters from an unfinished play searching for...

    Six Characters in Search of An Author
  • 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
  • 1979
    O Youth and Beauty!

    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...

    O Youth and Beauty!
  • 1976
    The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

    The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

    The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

    71976HD

    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
  • 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
  • 1983
    Alice in Wonderland

    Alice in Wonderland

    Alice in Wonderland

    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
  • 1972
    Particular Men

    Particular Men

    Particular Men

    01972HD

    A fictitious but powerful look at the dawn of the nuclear age, this stage performance follows several government scientists as they develop the...

    Particular Men