Broadway Theatre Archive Movies
- 1973
Incident at Vichy
Incident at Vichy01973HD
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,...
- 1974
Nourish the Beast
Nourish the Beast01974HD
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...
- 1959
Back to Back
Back to Back01959HD
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...
- 1972
Scarecrow
Scarecrow81972HD
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...
- 1976
The Hemingway Play
The Hemingway Play01976HD
A novel portrait of author Ernest Hemingway, in which four versions of the man from different points of his life exist simultaneously.
- 1974
June Moon
June Moon01974HD
In this rousing satire a native upstate New York clerk comes to 1920s Manhattan with dreams of making in big on Tin Pan Alley.
- 1975
Zalmen, or The Madness of God
Zalmen, or The Madness of God01975HD
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...
- 1975
The Year of the Dragon
The Year of the Dragon101975HD
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...
- 1980
Big Blonde
Big Blonde51980HD
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...
- 1974
Enemies
Enemies01974HD
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...
- 1977
The Royal Family
The Royal Family81977HD
George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber collaborated on this 1927 hit comedy about an eminent and slightly eccentric theatrical clan. A Barrymore-like brood...
- 1971
The Typists
The Typists01971HD
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...
- 1976
The Patriots
The Patriots01976HD
This absorbing 1976 production of dramatist Sidney Kingsley's historical play centers on the formative days of the United States and the disputes betw...
- 1974
A Touch of the Poet
A Touch of the Poet01974HD
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...
- 1981
Guests of the Nation
Guests of the Nation01981HD
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...
- 1971
Enemies
Enemies01971HD
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...
- 1974
Antigone
Antigone01974HD
A 1974 PBS production of Jean Anouilh's 1944 play "Antigone" adapted from the original Sophocles.
- 1975
Beyond the Horizon
Beyond the Horizon01975HD
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...
- 1975
The School for Scandal
The School for Scandal01975HD
London society matron Lady Sneerwell loves to gossip and spends her free time engaged in manipulation. When she selfishly derails the romance of Charl...
- 1980
Happy Days
Happy Days01980HD
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...