Broadway Theatre Archive.
1) Antigone
Publisher
Educational Broadcasting
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A filmed play adaptation from the Jean Anouilh reinterpretation of the Sophocles tragedy. First written and produced during the Nazi Occupation, this play about a young woman facing a morally corrupt world raises powerful questions of human interaction in regard to collaboration, responsibility and personal integrity.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A production by the Williamstown Theatre Festival of Anton Chekhov's classic comedy-drama depicting man's propensity for destroying those he is close to. The main protagonists are Trepleff, the youthful aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre and Irina Arkadina, Trepleff's self-centered mother, an accomplished actress, who derides her son's ambitions.
Publisher
Broadway Theatre Archive/Image Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A film version of Eugene O'Neill play which centers around drunks and whores who have found sanctuary in a saloon. Each has their own "pipe-dream" that sustains them until Hickey, the "Iceman", attempts to free them from their illusions by stripping them of their lies and guilt.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A film version of Eugene O'Neill play which centers around drunks and whores who have found sanctuary in a saloon. Each has their own "pipe-dream" that sustains them until Hickey, the "Iceman", attempts to free them from their illusions by stripping them of their lies and guilt.
Publisher
Broadway Theatre Archive
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In a towering performance, the late, great Jason Robards portrays a cynical, self-hating alcoholic actor based on O'Neill's elder brother, Jamie. The majestic Colleen Dewhurst plays the earthy, gruff daughter of his scheming Irish tenant farmer with whom the failed actor spends a soul-baring night of guilt-ridden confessions, tenderness, and absolution.
10) Hamlet
Publisher
Broadway Theatre Archive
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009]
Language
English
Description
This version of Shakespeare's tragedy of Hamlet, prince of Denmark, is presented in modern dress.
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
Happy days tells the story of Winnie, an eternal optimist facing the harsh realities of the world with a smile and impenetrable cheerfulness. Samuel Beckett captures her, in his words, "laughing wild amid severest woe." With aching and audacious humor, Beckett probes humankind's search for meaning and questions the relationships that bind one person to another.
14) The good doctor
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
A presentation of Neil Simon's Broadway hit based on Chekhov's early short stories which so eloquently capture the comic and serious sides of the 19th century Russian bourgeoisie.
15) Ah, wilderness!
Publisher
Broadway Theatre Archive
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A Long Wharf Theatre Company production of Eugene O'Neill's nostalgic paean to the rites of adolescence. This affectionate comedy presents a 17 year old boy's coming of age during a summer in 1906 New England where he experiments with his first romantic crush, poetry, politics, wicked women and alcohol.
16) Steambath
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Controversial comedy about 12 characters in a steambath which turns out to be a waiting room between this world and the next.
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
English
Description
In Riverton, Maine, circa 1893, Dr. Thomas Stockman wants to disclose that the town's moneymaking health spa "Clearwater Springs" has been fouled by pollution from a tannery. But his proposal to go public is opposed by his brother, Peter, the town mayor, who prompts a wave of public outrage against Dr. Stockman and his family.
18) Working
Publisher
Broadway Theatre Archive
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Musical adaptation of Studs Terkel's book, with songs by James Taylor, Stephen Schwartz and others.