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Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lee J. Cobb

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

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

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stephen Elliott

David Storey's adaptation of his award winning play for the BBC's Play for Today series.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Gielgud

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,...

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Cast: Blair Brown

Set in Richmond, Virginia in October 1864, tells the story of a Union spy working to seize control of the telegraph office.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Meryl Streep

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katharine Hepburn

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

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,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: René Auberjonois

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

This Pirates of Penzance is primarily a historical document, part of the Broadway Theater Archive television series.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

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Backus

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

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Houseman

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

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

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...

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Cast: Sally Kellerman

Is a sensitive and mysterious poet really an IRA gunman in hiding? Set in a Dublin tenement in the 1920s, this was the first part of Sean O'Casey's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frank Converse

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

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Robert Baines