Broadway Theatre Archive Movies

  • 1973
    Incident at Vichy

    Incident at Vichy

    Incident at Vichy

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    Adapted from Arthur Miller's play, film focuses on a group of Frenchmen who are detained at Vichy, the capital of France while under Nazi occupation,...

    Incident at Vichy
  • 1974
    Nourish the Beast

    Nourish the Beast

    Nourish the Beast

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    Baba Goya is a loudmouth mother who goes through husbands and orphans like the Turkish coffee she makes in a dirty old soup pan. In Queens she preside...

    Nourish the Beast
  • 1959
    Back to Back

    Back to Back

    Back to Back

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    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 h...

    Back to Back
  • 1972
    Scarecrow

    Scarecrow

    Scarecrow

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    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 pa...

    Scarecrow
  • 1976
    The Hemingway Play

    The Hemingway Play

    The Hemingway Play

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    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
  • 1974
    June Moon

    June Moon

    June Moon

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    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
  • 1975
    Zalmen, or The Madness of God

    Zalmen, or The Madness of God

    Zalmen, or The Madness of God

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    This play takes place during Yom Kippur in a post-Stalinist Russian synagogue, where a Rabbi waits for a Western acting troupe and gets extremely angr...

    Zalmen, or The Madness of God
  • 1975
    The Year of the Dragon

    The Year of the Dragon

    The Year of the Dragon

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    Frank Chin's edgy story breaks down the stereotypes of Asian Americans and centers on San Francisco Chinatown tour operator Fred Eng. Eng hides his co...

    The Year of the Dragon
  • 1980
    Big Blonde

    Big Blonde

    Big Blonde

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    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
  • 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
  • 1977
    The Royal Family

    The Royal Family

    The Royal Family

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    George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber collaborated on this 1927 hit comedy about an eminent and slightly eccentric theatrical clan. A Barrymore-like brood...

    The Royal Family
  • 1971
    The Typists

    The Typists

    The Typists

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    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 P...

    The Typists
  • 1976
    The Patriots

    The Patriots

    The Patriots

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    This absorbing 1976 production of dramatist Sidney Kingsley's historical play centers on the formative days of the United States and the disputes betw...

    The Patriots
  • 1974
    A Touch of the Poet

    A Touch of the Poet

    A Touch of the Poet

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    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 B...

    A Touch of the Poet
  • 1981
    Guests of the Nation

    Guests of the Nation

    Guests of the Nation

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    This drama tells the story of Irish insurgents and the captured British soldiers whom they are assigned to guard. While confined to a remote farmhouse...

    Guests of the Nation
  • 1971
    Enemies

    Enemies

    Enemies

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    A humble and long-suffering New York waiter finally turns the tables on a regular, insufferable customer who delights in pestering him about the servi...

    Enemies
  • 1974
    Antigone

    Antigone

    Antigone

    01974HD

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

    Antigone
  • 1975
    Beyond the Horizon

    Beyond the Horizon

    Beyond the Horizon

    01975HD

    On a Connecticut farm, James Mayo's two sons both love Ruth Atkins. Robert, the younger son, is sickly and dreams of escaping to a romantic life somew...

    Beyond the Horizon
  • 1975
    The School for Scandal

    The School for Scandal

    The School for Scandal

    01975HD

    London society matron Lady Sneerwell loves to gossip and spends her free time engaged in manipulation. When she selfishly derails the romance of Charl...

    The School for Scandal
  • 1980
    Happy Days

    Happy Days

    Happy Days

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    Winnie, a woman in her fifties, is buried waist-deep in a mound of scorched earth, with just a large, black shopping bag and a collapsed parasol. Behi...

    Happy Days