Broadway Theatre Archive

The Broadway Theatre Archive

Re-introducing classics to a new generation, and keeping the theatre, and television's interpretation of it, thriving.

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for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf By Ntozake Shange. This explosive, vivid "choreopoem" illuminates the story of black women in America as they celebrate in song, poetry and dance their strength, beauty and enormous capacity for love.

The Iceman Cometh
Jason Robards, Jr. became an overnight star with his indelible performance as the glad-handing, doom-ridden Hickey in the legendary 1956 Circle in the Square revival of Eugene O'Neill's towering masterpiece.

The Starwagon
In an especially vivid characterization, a very young Dustin Hoffman portrays the inventor’s muttering stooge. This 1967 film, which preceded "The Graduate," clearly demonstrates the early genius of Dustin Hoffman.

June Moon
In homage to the heyday of American comedy, George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner's satire takes on 1929's Tin Pan Alley. Look for composer Stephen Sondheim as a wisecracking pianist in his acting debut!

King Lear
The formidable James Earl Jones reprises his critically acclaimed King Lear in this television adaptation of Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival production.

Uncommon Women and Others
Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein’s first play. At a reunion seven years after their graduation from Mount Holyoke College, five former classmates assess whether they have achieved their youthful goals.

The Last of Mrs. Lincoln Julie Harris recreates her award winning Broadway performance.

Home
Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson

The Last Mile and Kiss, Kiss Dahlings Bernadette Peters and Nancy Marchand

Hamlet
Starring Kevin Kline, Dana Ivey and Diane Venora

Fifth of July
Richard Thomas and Swoozie Kurtz

Working
Studs Terkel's musical celebration of average people shows that they are anything but average.

The Sorrows Of Gin Sigourney Weaver Edward Herrmann

Out of Our Fathers' House: Dianne Weist is intensely effective. -The New York Times

Rules of the Game
David Dukes, Joan Van Ark, Glenn Close

The Seagull
Frank Langella and Blythe Danner