Most Viewed From Broadway Theatre Archive

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nina Foch

A 1974 PBS production of Jean Anouilh's 1944 play "Antigone" adapted from the original Sophocles.

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Cast: Geneviève Bujold

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

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Cast: Glenn Close

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

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Meryl Streep

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Thomas

This Pirates of Penzance is primarily a historical document, part of the Broadway Theater Archive television series.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

Genre: Music

Cast: Kevin Kline

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Chamberlain

Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lee J. Cobb

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sarita Allen

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marc Singer

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jason Robards

Henry Flipper is the first black West Point graduate. Assigned to serve at Fort Davis in Texas, Flipper becomes the object of a conspiracy by his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Franklyn Seales

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeff Bridges

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julie Harris

Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull" is brought to life in this acclaimed 1975 production directed by John Desmond. Seeking to reform the theater,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Blythe Danner

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

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kate Burton

Real-life couple Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson star in this 1971 television adaptation of Murray Schisgal's moving play, in which married law student...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anne Jackson

Dustin Hoffman stars in this television adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's tale about Dmitri Zoditch, a simple manuscript reader at a publishing house...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dustin Hoffman

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

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Cast: James Earl Jones

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katharine Hepburn