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A 1974 PBS production of Jean Anouilh's 1944 play "Antigone" adapted from the original Sophocles.

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Cast: Geneviève Bujold

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Gielgud

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

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

Norman Lloyd directed this televised production of Jean Renoir's World War II-era play. Taking place backstage at a theatrical performance in...

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Cast: Leslie Caron

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

Curley Delafield, a young arms merchant, is determined to discover the secret behind the disappearance of his sister Sarah.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Cassidy

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

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

In this acclaimed production of John Steinbeck's classic morality tale, award-winning actress Colleen Dewhurst stars as Mordeen, a wife driven to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Colleen Dewhurst

In this rousing satire a native upstate New York clerk comes to 1920s Manhattan with dreams of making in big on Tin Pan Alley.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Susan Sarandon

Donald Moffat stars in Moliere's classic comedy about lovable scoundrel Tartuffe, who befriends the wealthy Orgon and then attempts to seduce both...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald Moffat

The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Matthau

On the Fourth of July holiday in 1906, the Miller family prepares to celebrate in their New England home. Young Richard, 16, is a thoughtful and...

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Cast: Anthony Petrillo

Real-life couple Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson star in this 1971 television adaptation of Murray Schisgal's moving play, in which married law student...

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Cast: Anne Jackson

A perceptive and funny study about the fantasies, inhibitions and dreams of two frustrated and lonely middle-class matrons who set up competing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eileen Herlie

During the course of one night, two strangers, a lonely waif and a prodigal poet, form an unexpected connection.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patty Duke

Brothers Grimm tales like "The Golden Goose," "The Bremen Town Musicians" and "The Blue Light" come to life in this stripped-down stage production,...

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Cast: David Ackroyd

As a famous man lies dying, his family—including both his wife and his mistress—gathers inside, while members of the media converge...

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Cast: Myra Carter

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