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
  • 1983
    Alice in Wonderland

    Alice in Wonderland

    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
    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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1966
    An Enemy of the People

    An Enemy of the People

    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...

    An Enemy of the People
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1975
    The Seagull

    The Seagull

    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,...

    The Seagull
  • 1976
    The Time of Your Life

    The Time of Your Life

    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...

    The Time of Your Life