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- DirectorSidney LumetStarsJason RobardsMyron McCormickTom PediTheodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes by-yearly visits to Harry Hope's 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical drinking binges. But on this visit he has decided to try to save the bar's patrons from their "lying pipe dreams."
- DirectorWilford LeachJoshua WhiteStarsKevin KlineG. Eugene MooseRex SmithA young man named Frederick leaves the zany band of pirates he was raised by to find true love and respectability, but when the Pirate King turns up to call on an old debt, Frederick must choose between the girl he loves and his sense of duty.
- DirectorStacy KeachStarsJulie AdamsWil AlbertPat AstDuring a busy live taping of a TV program, a group of mysterious people show up with a strange demand..
- DirectorAnthony HarveyStarsKatharine HepburnSam WaterstonJoanna MilesAmanda Wingfield dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past. Her son plans escape; her daughter withdraws into a dream world. When a "gentleman caller" appears, things move to crisis point.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsRobby BensonMichael CristoferPatrick DuffyAfter the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, his widow Mary Todd Lincoln's life becomes more difficult at every turn.
- DirectorStacy KeachStarsRene AuberjonoisEd BakeyLee BergereAdapted 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, and "investigated" under suspicion of secretly being Jewish.
- DirectorNorman LloydStarsMichael SacksLeslie CaronDouglas AndersonDuring World War II, an acting company in occupied Paris is notified that a German officer will be stopping by to see their play. The stage manager--who also happens to be the lover of Carola, the lead actress--asks her to "play up" to the visiting German for the good of the play, but when the officer arrives, it becomes clear to the manager that the German and Carola have had a previous relationship, and that she is still in love with him.
- DirectorFielder CookStarsSam JaffeNed GlassVeteran character actor Sam Jaffe portrays a humble and longsuffering New York waiter who finally turns the tables on a regular, but insufferable, customer (Ned Glass) who delights in pestering him about the service. Both men are somewhat deceptive and the relationship between the two turns when it is revealed that the waiter is a skilled investor and a part-owner of the restaurant and building.
- DirectorJoseph HardyStarsFrank ConverseBrendan DillonRichard DreyfussDonal Davoren is a poet but the folks in his tenement building think he's an IRA gunman laying low. Donal is content to let them think so, Minnie Powell. Donal and his flatmate Seamus end up holding the bag, literally, after a friend of Seamus who's really in the IRA is killed. When the authorities search house to house for IRA members, Millie tries to protect Donal.
- DirectorGlenn JordanStarsAnne JacksonEli WallachAdriana ShawLaw student Paul Cunningham arrives for his first day at a job typing advertisements where he meets supervising typist Miss Sylvia Payton, a day evolves fragmentedly showing many days of their relationship, indicated by costume changes for flashforwards and flashbacks as they learn more about each other and hint on and off about romance, despite the fact that Paul is married with children.
- DirectorIvan DixonStarsMary AliceScatman CrothersMaidie NormanOriginally produced in 1971 by the estimable Negro Ensemble Company, and hailed by Time Magazine as one of the best plays of the year, Dean's powerful drama is about an uprooted Africian American family (mother, daughter, uncle) living in Chicago.
- DirectorFielder CookStarsAndrew DugganJane WyattCicely TysonA provacative, emotion-packed drama about race relations in an all-white suburban community.
- DirectorCharles S. DubinStarsEileen HerlieMartha ScottA pair of Peoria matrons set up competing lemonade stands by the highway which they have spiked with alcohol. Neither sells anything but they sample each other's wares and pass the time talking of their families.
- DirectorPaul BogartStarsSusan ClarkNorma CraneRichard CrennaCharlie and Barbara's marriage is disintegrating after 25 years, while his parents celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.
- DirectorBurt BrinckerhoffStarsStephen ElliottBill BixbyHerb EdelmanRandom people find themselves in a steam room, quickly realize that it's a gateway to the afterlife and that the eccentric Puerto Rican janitor is actually God.
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsNina FochNorman LloydBlythe DannerJust before the Salem witch trials, an embittered old woman, who's learned witchcraft, and brings a scarecrow to life, as part of her revenge on the judge who was once her lover.
- DirectorWilliam BallKirk BrowningStarsRaye BirkEarl BoenRon BoussomSan Francisco's A.C.T. company presents Shakespeare's classic take with a Commedia dell'Arte flair, as if it were a inn yard performance by a traveling company.
- DirectorGeorge C. ScottStarsCameron MitchellWilliam ShatnerJack CassidyA dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
- DirectorKarl GenusStarsOrson BeanEileen BrennanHal BurdickIn middle age, inventor Stephen Minch is happy enough with his life, despite the fact that he has never risen to prominence even though his innovations have made others rich. His wife Martha, however, resents his lack of drive, his complacency, his willingness to live hand-to-mouth, and his ever-present and ever-annoying sidekick Hanus Wicks. Confronted by the evidence of Martha's years-long regret over how their lives together have turned out, Stephen decides to use his newest invention to repair her unhappiness. The new invention: a time machine.
- DirectorEmile ArdolinoStarsMeryl StreepBetty AberlinDebbie AllenYoung Alice falls down a rabbit hole and meets a variety of fantastic creatures.
- DirectorJack O'BrienStarsRichard ChamberlainBob DishyGary Dontzig
- DirectorNick HavingaStarsSam WaterstonKathleen WiddoesBarnard HughesVideotape of the Joseph Papp production. Don Pedro and his men (Teddy Roosevelt Roughriders) have returned from the wars. After Beatrice turns down his proposal, Don Pedro decides to matchmake her with Benedick (her former boyfriend), but she being an independent-minded, bicycle-riding Suffragette type, it's going to take a bit of trickery. Meanwhile, Beatrice's cousin, Hero, has fallen in love with Benedick's friend, Claudio. But Don Pedro's bastard half-brother, Don John, plots to split them apart, and Benedick finds himself having to choose between his best friend and the woman he loves.
- DirectorJosé QuinteroGordon RigsbyStarsJason RobardsColleen DewhurstEd FlandersIn Connecticut in September 1923, the lives of three people collide: Josie, a domineering Irish woman with a quick tongue and a ruined reputation, her conniving father, tenant farmer Phil Hogan, and James Tyrone, Jr., Hogan's landlord and drinking companion, a cynical alcoholic haunted by the death of his mother.
- DirectorStan LathanStarsThalmus RasulalaFranklyn SealesKristie Thatcher"The Trial of the Moke" is about the first black man to graduates from West Point. Flipper is framed for embezzlement by his fellow cadets to drive him away. But Flipper wasn't going anywhere until he cleared his name.
- DirectorJack LandauStarsTom AldredgeMichael BaseleonAlbert DekkerA collection of ten vignettes by Tennessee Williams offering various viewpoints on life, love and death. The reference to "Camino Real" is allegorical, and represents the journey of life.
- DirectorKirk BrowningStarsBenjamin HendricksonRichard OomsNicolas SurovyWilliam Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the characters drift in and out of the bar and each other's lives, giving voice to Saroyan's philosophies as they randomly comment about the impending world war, the beauty of art, and traditional notions of good and evil. At least one of the relationships stands a chance of enduring: a brawny innocent named Tom is falling in love with a vulnerable young prostitute named Kitty. Saroyan himself is heard reciting the play's prologue.
- StarsRoberta MaxwellDeborah OffnerPeter WellerEugene O'Neill's trilogy of plays inspired by Aeschylus' Oresteia. Set near the end of the American Civil War, the action follows the turmoil of the Mannon family and its myriad psychological torments.
- DirectorPeter LevinAlan SchneiderStarsJoseph WisemanRichard BauerRobert ProskyFrom Elie Wiesel, one of the most important voices of our time, comes Zalmen or the Madness of God. Set in post-Stalinist Russia in a synagogue on the eve of an appearance by a Western acting troupe, Zalmen has been described as a cry of anguish about the collective guilt of the silent. The Play was written after Wiesel's visit to the Soviet Union in 1965. Directed by Peter Levin and Alan Schneider, the play also concerns man's need for tradition as well as the futility of gestures.
- DirectorRobert HopkinsNorman LloydStarsFelicia FarrLeo FuchsRobert LiptonWater Matthau heads the cast of this television re-creation of Clifford Odet's 1935 Broadway play-the full length work performed on the commercial stage by the legendary Group Theatre. This portrait of a Jewish family in a Bronx tenement perfectly captures the spirit of the depression years, and is suffused with details of character and place that combine to be affecting even now. The Bergers burdened by fanatical difficulties have taken in a boarder - Moe Axelrod "Mathew Matthau"-who lost a leg in World War I. Cynical and outspoken, Moe adds a spark to the somewhat accepting lives of the Bergers. The family fights to survive on sixteen dollars a week while the intellectual, Marxist leaning grandfather "brilliantly played by famed Yiddish theatre star, Leo Fuchs" tries futilely to spur his family to action with the junction, "Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust." -Isaiah 26:19
- DirectorKirk BrowningStarsSally KellermanVictor GriffinHarris LaskawyBased on Dorothy Parker's short story, Big Blonde is about a free-spirited young woman in 1920s New York who marries a traveling salesman, only discover that she's made a terrible mistake.
- DirectorPortman PagetRussell TreyzStarsLilah KanPat SuzukiTina ChenSan Francisco Chinatown tour operator Fred Eng hides his contempt for the tourists while dealing with the uproar that occurs within his oddball family after his dying father reveals he's hiding a second wife.
- DirectorKirk BrowningEllis RabbStarsDonald BartonForrest BuckmanDavid A. ButlerGeorge S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber collaborated on this 1927 hit comedy about an eminent and slightly eccentric theatrical clan. A Barrymore-like brood, the Cavendishes are as flamboyant offstage as they are on. Their real-life family drama occurs in a Manhattan apartment when the grand matriarch, Fanny Cavendish, learns that her daughter and granddaughter may both be giving up the stage for marriage. Theatre legends Rosemary Harris, Eva LeGallienne, Sam Levene and Ellis Rabb have great fun portraying characters they know all too well from their years on stage.
- DirectorEmile ArdolinoVinnette CarrollStarsJeffrey Anderson-GunterBrenda BraxtonLynne Clifton-AllenVignettes of monologues regarding African American history.
- DirectorKirk BrowningStephen PorterStarsDonald MoffatRobert PhalenRoberta MaxwellCornelius "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 British army during the Napoleonic wars. Impoverished now, he struts about in his uniform and plots to make money by manipulating the love of his daughter for the son of a wealthy manufacturer. His daughter sees through his façade and his chicanery and begins to plot for herself.
- DirectorGlenn JordanStarsBil BairdPhilip BrunsAnthony HollandA scrub-woman attempts to rescue a dolphin who will talk to no one but her from a research laboratory.
- DirectorPaul BogartStarsTony GoldwynBill IrwinNathan Lane
- DirectorLloyd RichardsStarsChip FieldsLouis Gossett Jr.Paulene MyersThis 1977 drama by Phillip Hayes Dean, deals with the sad division between what a man hopes for and what he achieves. In the title role, Dick Anthony Williams portrays a naïve, ambitious, recklessly optimistic man who is not understood by those closest to him and who finds himself in difficulty because of his unrealistic hopes.
- DirectorRichard A. LukinJohn StixStarsPhyllis LoveE.G. MarshallJames PatersonProduced by David Susskind, this production of one of Henrik Ibsen's most famous plays focuses on an older man's fear that he will be replaced by the younger generation before he has been able to reconcile his success with his personal sacrifices.
- DirectorGlenn JordanStarsAnne JacksonEli WallachAdriana ShawLaw student Paul Cunningham arrives for his first day at a job typing advertisements where he meets supervising typist Miss Sylvia Payton, a day evolves fragmentedly showing many days of their relationship, indicated by costume changes for flashforwards and flashbacks as they learn more about each other and hint on and off about romance, despite the fact that Paul is married with children.
- DirectorGlenn JordanStarsAlan MixonWilliam RedfieldLois SmithProducer-director Glenn Jordan brought together two Tennessee Williams plays, written twenty years apart, that examine the theme of isolation with searching clarity. The joint presentation, entitled "Dragon Country," features the world premiere of "I Can't Imagine Tomorrow," starring Kim Stanley and William Redfield, and a much earlier work, "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen," starring Lois Smith and Alan Mixon. Together, the dramas delve into "a land of endured but unendurable pain, where each one is so absorbed, deafened, blinded by his own journey across it, he sees, he looks for, no one else crawling across it with him."
- DirectorDavid HeeleyStarsIrene WorthGeorge VoskovecSuffused with tenderness, lucidity and humor, this Samuel Becket play is a comedy in pure, music-hall style. Legendary actress, Irene Worth, stars as Winnie, an optimist who deep down senses she has little to feel "happy" about. Irene Worth gives a tour-de-force performance as she chatters incessantly and cheerily on a variety of subjects. Winnie never allows a day to pass without looking her best and hoping for better. Worth portrays Winnie as the embodiment of humankind's nobler virtues: wise, majestic and committed to her conviction that "this will have been a happy day."
- DirectorDaniel MannStarsBarry SullivanWilliam BassettTiffany Bolling1880: The Hubbard family got rich through profiteering in the Civil War. Now, they are hated, but powerful.
- DirectorGlenn JordanStarsAlice DrummondWill GregoryLois SmithPresented on Playhouse New York: The '40's, this drama by Emmy Award winner Loring Mandel is the story of physicist William Benjamin, whose opposition to nuclear research for the military prompts a security hearing.
- DirectorGerald GutierrezStarsBlythe DannerNancy MarchandCynthia NixonThis movie is Wendy Wasserstein's humorous love letter to the theatre and features three generations of actresses in three different eras. Talk show host Charlie Rose also makes an appearance.