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Broadway Theatre Archive: Scarecrow (1971)
Cast: Blythe Danner, Gene Wilder, Norman Lloyd …
This edition of the Broadway Theatre Archive series features a performance of Percy MacKaye's satiric play "Scarecrow," which follows a straw man (Gene Wilder) brought to life in…
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Hogan's Goat (1971)
Cast: Philip Bosco, Faye Dunaway, Rue McClanahan …
As Irish ward boss Matt Stanton (Robert Foxworth) tries to win the Brooklyn mayoralty from the ruthless Ned Quinn (George Rose), Stanton's wife, Kathleen (Faye Dunaway), worries the…
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Paradise Lost (1971)
Cast: Jo Van Fleet, Eli Wallach, Bernadette Peters …
Released by the Broadway Theatre Archive, this famed production of Clifford Odets' drama Paradise Lost stars award-winning thespians Bernadette Peters, Fred Gwynne, and Eli Wallach.…
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Three Sisters (1970)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Jeanne Watts …
Directed by: John Sichel, Laurence Olivier
Anton Chekhov's melancholy classic about shattered dreams, self-delusion and the necessity of compromise resonates in this American Film Theatre presentation of the 1967 stage production…
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Dragon Country (1970)
Cast: William Redfield, Kim Stanley, Lois Smith …
Featuring two Tennessee Williams plays, this program depicts a teacher's attempts to court a spirited spinster in "I Can't Imagine Tomorrow" and the painful interactions between…
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Story Theatre (1969)
Cast: David Clennon, Mildred Dunnock, Alvin Epstein …
Brothers Grimm tales like "The Golden Goose," "The Bremen Town Musicians" and "The Blue Light" come to life in this stripped-down stage production, which forgoes elaborate sets and costumes…
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Prince Igor (Kirov Opera) (1969)
Cast: Vladimir Kinyaev, Tamara Milashkina, Virghilius Norelka …
Directed by: Roman Tikhomirov
Prince Igor, the Russian leader who defended his Ukrainian homeland against invasion during the 12th century, is the protagonist of this opera by Alexander Borodin that features numerous…
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968)
Cast: Derek Godfrey, Barbara Jefford, Nicholas Selby …
Directed by: Peter Hall
Peter Hall directs this fine Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of the Bard's most pixilated romantic comedy about a group of amorous adults -- under a fairy's spell -- that…
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The Star Wagon (1967)
Cast: Eileen Brennan, Richard Castellano, Orson Bean …
Just a year before making a name for himself with a breakthrough performance in The Graduate, a young Dustin Hoffman appeared in this made-for-television adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's…
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An Enemy of the People (1966)
Cast: Philip Bosco, James Daly, Kate Reid …
Set in a Norwegian hamlet, this adaptation of playwright Henrik Ibsen's potent drama stars James Daly as Thomas Stockmann, an idealistic physician who discovers that the town's hot…
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Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966)
Cast: Tom Aldredge, Lotte Lenya, Martin Sheen …
In a fictitious Latin American nation that feels like a dream world, American G.I. Kilroy (Martin Sheen) tries to maintain some sense of hope amid a disillusioned and destitute population,…
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The Human Voice (1966)
Cast: Ingrid Bergman
Directed by: Ted Kotcheff
Legendary actress Ingrid Bergman shines in this 1966 production of playwright Jean Cocteau's one-act drama that deftly captures the despair of a jilted middle-aged woman through a…
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Romeo & Juliet (1965)
Cast: Clive Francis, Angela Scoular, Hayward Morse …
Directed by: Val Drumm, Paul Lee
Clive Francis and Angela Scoular head the cast as William Shakespeare's star-crossed teenage lovers in this filmed stage performance produced by London's Royal Academy of Dramatic…
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Hamlet (1964)
Cast: Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn, William Redfield …
Directed by: Bill Colleran
The greatest role in the English-speaking theater is tackled by one of its greatest actors. Richard Burton, at the height of his popularity, essays Shakespeare's melancholy Dane, backed…
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Bluthochzeit: Blood Wedding (1964)
Cast: Anny Schlemm, Johannes Grossmann, Martha Modl …
Directed by: Ferdinand Leitner
Wolfgang Fortner's rendition of Federico Garcia Lorca's tragic tale of family, love and vengeance centers on a bride (Anny Schlemm) who runs off with a man from the family her…
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Master Builder (1960)
Cast: Lois Smith, E.G. Marshall
The Broadway Theatre Archive presents another program in its series of televised plays from the 60s to the 80s. Famed playwright Henrik Ibsen tells the tale of a master builder in the…
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Peter Pan (1960)
Cast: Mary Martin, Cyril Ritchard, Maureen Bailey …
Directed by: Vincent Donehue
For much of the American public, Mary Martin is Peter Pan, and her timeless performance in Jerome Robbins's Tony- and Emmy-winning stage version of the classic family favorite has become…
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Broadway Theatre Archive: Back to Back (1959)
Cast: Michael Hordern, Leueen MacGrath, George Rose …
Michael Hordern, George Rose and Jean Marsh star in dueling one-act comedies in this uproarious installment of the Broadway Theatre Archive series highlighting the work of playwright John…
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Broadway Theatre Archive: Burning Bright (1959)
Cast: Colleen Dewhurst, Myron McCormick, Donald Madden …
In this acclaimed production of John Steinbeck's classic morality tale, award-winning actress Colleen Dewhurst stars as Mordeen, a wife driven to desperate measures to give her aging…
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Oedipus Rex (1957)
Cast: Douglas Campbell, Eleanor Stuart, Robert Goodier …
Directed by: Tyrone Guthrie
Acclaimed actor-director Sir Tyrone Guthrie filmed this 1957 masterpiece production of Sophocles's beloved Greek tragedy. Just as the ancient Greeks performed it, the actors here also…
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King Lear (1953)
Cast: Orson Welles, Natasha Parry, Arnold Moss …
Directed by: Andrew McCullough
Orson Welles stars in the 1953 Omnibus version of Shakespeare's classic tragedy, originally broadcast on CBS using a shortened version of the play, which was staged by Peter Brook and…
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Alice in Wonderland (1949)
Cast: Felix Aylmer, Stephen Murray, Carol Marsh …
Directed by: Dallas Bower
The charming Carol Marsh stars as Alice alongside a cast of marvelous puppets created by renowned puppeteer Louis Bunin in this acclaimed 1950 adaptation of Lewis Carroll's tale of…