This release of Theatre in Video includes over 300 hours of performance and documentary material, featuring some of the leading names in the theatre: Bertolt Brecht, Henrik Ibsen, Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Harold Pinter, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, August Wilson, and William Shakespeare, among many others.
Highlights include productions of The Iceman Cometh (directed by Sidney Lumet), Master Builder (starring E.G. Marshall), Othello (produced at the Market Theatre in South Africa), Playboy of the Western World (produced at the Donmar Warehouse in London), The Oresteia (directed by Peter Hall), Awake and Sing! (starring Walter Matthau), She Stoops to Conquer (produced at the Theatre Royal in Bath), and O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night.
Documentaries here cover films on Albee, Beckett, Wilson, Miller, Brecht, The Negro Ensemble Company, The Royal Shakespeare Company, and Joe Chaikin's Open Theatre. The collection ranges from rare historical footage to famous stage moments, including: the Federal Theatre Project's production of Macbeth directed by Orson Welles; Bertolt Brecht reading in voice-over from his own work; the only surviving footage of Stanislavsky directing a scene; Oscar Wilde's recorded voice in the documentary Oscar Wilde: Spendthrift of Genius; Laurence Olivier in excerpts from John Osborne's The Entertainer; and Harold Pinter's direction of his own play, Party Time.
You can browse the videos in the collection by: Productions, Documentaries, People, Genres, Companies, Theatres, or Dates.