- Anouilh, Jean, Adapted from a play by Sophocles
Antigone - Call Number: PQ2601.N67 A56 2001
Location: General
Format: DVD
Publication information: [New York] : Broadway Theatre Archive Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment c2001
Physical description: 1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: A filmed play adaptation from the Jean Anouilh reinterpretation of the Sophocles tragedy about a young woman facing a morally corrupt world
- Beckett, Samuel
Beckett on Film - Call Number: PR 6003.E282 B435 2001
Location: General
Format: DVD
Publication information: London : Clarence Pictures, 2001
Physical description: 4 videodiscs (10 hrs., 48 min.) : sd, col., b&w 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39, [1] p. : ill. 19 cm.)
Description: The comprehensive cinematic interpretation of Beckett's plays
Contents: [v. 1.] Waiting for Godot / director, Michael Lindsay-Hogg (120 min.) -- Not I / director, Neil Jordan (14 min.) -- Rough for theatre I / director, Kieron J. Walsh (20 min.) -- Ohio impromptu / director, Charles Sturridge (12 min.) -- Documentary / producer, Larry Masterson director, Pearse Lehane (52 min.) -- [v. 2.] Krapp's last tape / director, Atom Egoyan (58 min.) -- What where / director, Damien O'Donnell (12 min.) -- Footfalls / director, Walter Asmus (28 min.) -- Come and go / director, John Crowley (8 min.) -- Act without words I / director, Karel Reisz (16 min.) -- [v. 3.] Happy days / director, Patricia Rozema (79 min.) -- Catastrophe / director, David Mamet (7 min.) -- Rough for theatre II / director, Katie Mitchell (30 min.) -- Breath / director, Damien Hirst (1 min.) -- That time / director, Charles Garrad (20 min.) -- [v. 4.] Endgame / director, Conor McPherson (84 min.) -- Act without words II / director, Enda Hughes (11 min.) -- A piece of monologue / director, Robin Lefèvre (20 min.) -- Play / director, Anthony Minghella (15 min.) -- Rockaby / director, Richard Eyre (14 min.)
- Chekhov, Anton
The Seagull - Call Number: PG3456.C5 C452 2002
Location: General
Format: DVD
Publication information: [New York] : Broadway Theatre Archive Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, [2002]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in
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
- Chin, Frank
The Year of the Dragon - Call Number: PS3553.H4897 Y4 1990
Location: Circulation Desk
Format: VHS
Publication information: [New York] : The Broadway Theatre Archive : WNET/13, [199-?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (89 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: From the play by Frank Chin of the same name, The Year of the Dragon looks at the stereotypes concerning Asian-Americans. A working class Chinese-American man, Fred Eng, is in torment over his divided loyalties to America and China, which explode on Chinese New Year (The Year of the Dragon)
- Gurney, A. R.
The Dining Room - Call Number: PS 3557 .U82 D5 1988
Location: General
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Alexandria, Va.] : Distributed by PBS Video, c1988
Physical description: 1 videocasette (90 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A comic look at the roles and rituals of the American WASP
- Hansberry, Lorraine
A Raisin in the Sun - Call Number: PS3515.A515 R3 1990
Location: General
Format: VHS
Publication information: Hollywood, CA : Fries Home Video, c1990, 1989
Physical description: 2 videocassettes (171 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: The story of an African-American family living in a Chicago ghetto in the mid-1950's. The just-widowed mother, her son and his wife, and the sister live together and cope with bigotry and hatred, as well as the strains of everyday living
- McNally, Terrence
Andre's Mother - Call Number: PS3563.A323 A5 1998
Location: General
Format: VHS
Publication information: Thousand Oaks, CA : Monterey Home Video : Distributed by Monterey Movie Company, [1998]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (58 min.) : sd. col. 1/2 in
Description: Katherine has lost her son, Cal has lost his lover, and together they must seek a reconciliation, an understanding of life with and now without their Andre who has lost his life to AIDS
- Miller, Arthur, Adapted from a play by Henrik Ibsen
Arthur Miller's Adaptation of An Enemy of the People - Call Number: PT8862 .A1 2002
Location: General
Format: DVD
Publication information: [New York] : Broadway Theatre Archive West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur Video, [2002?]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in
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
- Miller, Arthur
Death of a Salesman - Call Number: PS3525.I5156 D423 2002
Location: General
Format: DVD
Publication information: [New York] : Broadway Theatre Archive West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, [2002]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: An abbreviated television adaptation of Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a middle-aged man's emotional turmoil
- Miller, Arthur
An Enemy of the People - Call Number: PT8862 .A3 1998
Location: General
Format: VHS
Publication information: Malibu, Calif. : Monterey Home Video, [1998]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A study of an honest man persecuted because of his insistence on telling the truth. Includes a conversation with Arthur Miller and Jack O'Brien
- Miller, Arthur
A Memory of Two Mondays - Call Number: PS3525.I5156 M466 2001
Location: General
Format: DVD
Publication information: [New York] : Broadway Theatre Archive West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, [c2001]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Arthur Miller's vivid comedy-drama portrays the nature of life during America's Great Depression. The emphasis is on mood and characterization as Miller draws on his own personal experience to evoke what the 1930s were like for workers to whom a job-- any job-- was everything
- Odets, Clifford
Awake and Sing - Call Number: PS3529.D46 A93 2002
Location: General
Format: DVD
Publication information: West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur [New York] : Broadway Theatre Archive, [c2002]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A portrait of a Jewish family in a Bronx tenement perfectly captures the spirit of the Depression years
- Odets, Clifford
Paradise Lost - Call Number: PS3529.D46 P37 2000
Location: General
Format: DVD
Publication information: West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur [New York, NY] : Broadway Theatre Archive, [200-?]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (160 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Set in 1932 during the depression, the story unfolds in the modest two-family home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes
- Odets, Clifford
Rocket to the Moon - Call Number: PS 3529 .D46 R6 1988
Location: General
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Alexandria, Va.] : Distributed by PBS Video, c1988
Physical description: 1 videocassette (118 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Set in post-Depression New York, this play explores the life of a 39-year-old Manhattan dentist. On the surface, everything appears mundane. But you soon become aware of the choices of conscience and compromise he must make
- O'Neill, Eugene
Eugene O'Neill's Hughie - Call Number: PS 3529 .N5 H8 1984
Location: General
Format: VHS
Publication information: [S.l.] : RKO Home Video, c1984
Physical description: 1 videocassette (65 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Set in New York City in 1928, a downtrodden hotel resident confides his imaginary triumphs as a gambler and ladies' man to the night clerk
- O'Neill, Eugene
Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh - Call Number: PS3529.N5 I34 1990
Location: General
Format: VHS
Publication information: [New York, NY] : Broadway Theatre Archive : Thirteen/WNET, [199-?]
Physical description: 2 videocassettes (209 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
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
- O'Neill, Eugene
A Moon for the Misbegotten - Call Number: PS3529.N5 M68 2002
Location: General
Format: DVD
Publication information: [New York] : Broadway Theatre Archive Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, 2002
Physical description: 1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: A cynical, self-hating alcoholic actor spends a soul-baring night of guilt-ridden confessions, tenderness, and absolution with the earthy, gruff daughter of his scheming Irish tenant farmer.
- O'Neill, Eugene
Mourning Becomes Electra - Call Number: PS3529.N5 M78 2000
Location: General
Format: VHS
Publication information: [New York] : Broadway Theatre Archive West Long Branch, N.J. : Distributed by Kultur, [2000]
Physical description: 3 videocassettes (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A classic American drama of love, revenge, murder and suicide set against the backdrop of a small New England town in the post-Civil War era
- Parnell, Peter
The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket - Call Number: PS 3566 .A752 R5 1988
Location: General
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Alexandria, Va.] : Distributed by PBS Video, [1988], c1985
Physical description: 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Rocket believes he can fly without the aid of a trapeze or flying machine, and does fly just like Peter Pan. The symbolic nature of his feat presents an inspiring portrayal of the exceptional person, the genius alone. The story also presents a charming picture of the social mores of suburban life
- Pirandello, Luigi
Six Characters in Search of an Author - Call Number: PQ4835.I7 S45 2002
Location: General
Format: DVD
Publication information: [New York] : Broadway Theatre Archive West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, [c2002]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: Actors in rehearsal are replaced by six strangers who appear mysteriously and who convince the director their story is more interesting than the play in rehearsal
- Saroyan, William
The Time of Your Life - Call Number: PS3537.A826 T53 1999
Location: General
Format: VHS
Publication information: [New York] : Broadway Theatre Archive, [1999?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (118 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: The Acting Company production of the Saroyan play that 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, but at least one of the relationships stands a chance of enduring: a brawny innocent named Tom is falling in love with a vulnerable young hooker named Kitty
- Shakespeare, William
Antony and Cleopatra - Call Number: PR2802 .A23 1993
Location: General
Format: VHS
Publication information: Van Nuys, Calif. : LIVE Home Video, [1993]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (161 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences 1/2 in
- Shakespeare, William
Hamlet - Call Number: PR2807.A2 B8 1995
Location: General
Format: VHS
Publication information: [S.l.] : Onward Production Ltd. and Paul Brownstein Productions : Distributed by BMG Video, c1995
Physical description: 2 videocassettes (3 hrs., 10 min.) : sd., b&w 1/2 in
Description: Staged in rehearsal room and modern dress conditions, this is Richard Burton's performance as Hamlet. This play opened on Broadway April 9, 1964. This recording is not derived from a film, but from an attempt to simply record the stage show for one cinematic showing by placing cameras in the stalls during an actual performance
- Shakespeare, William
King Lear - Call Number: PR2819.A23 E5 1984
Location: Circulation Desk
Format: VHS
Publication information: W. Long Branch, NJ : Distributed by Kultur International Films, c1984
Physical description: 1 videocassette (158 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Presents William Shakespeare's play about a foolish king who divides his realm between two ungrateful daughters
- Shakespeare, William
King Lear - Call Number: Shelved by title
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, [1999?]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (158 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Presents William Shakespeare's play about a foolish king who divides his realm between two ungrateful daughters
- Shakespeare, William
Kiss Me, Petruchio - Call Number: PR2832 .K5 1983
Location: General
Format: VHS
Publication information: Wilmette, IL : Films Inc., 1983
Physical description: 1 videocassette (58 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Observes a performance of The taming of the shrew at the open-air Delacorte Theater in Central Park during the New York Shakespeare Festival. The two principals discuss the play and their roles
- Shakespeare, William
The Merchant of Venice - Call Number: PR2825.A2 S53 1993
Location: General
Format: VHS
Publication information: Van Nuys, CA : LIVE Home Video, [1993]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (131 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Set in 1860's Venice, a young Venetian borrows money from a Jew who gives him the money on the security of one pound of flesh. Upon default the Jew insists on payment of his bond and the young Venetian is rescued by the heroine disguised as a male lawyer
- Shakespeare, William
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Call Number: PR2827.A23 N625 1999
Location: General
Format: VHS
Publication information: [Burbank, CA] : Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [1999]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (103 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A rich man's daughter has a difficult choice to make-- do her duty and accept an arranged marriage, or follow her heart to her one true love. The play is set in a contemporary landscape and introduces the character of the Boy, through whose dream we view the play
- Shakespeare, William
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Call Number: PR2827.A23 N625 2002
Location: General
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Burbank, CA] : Miramax Home Entertainment : Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2002]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd. col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: A rich man's daughter has a difficult choice to make-- do her duty and accept an arranged marriage, or follow her heart to her one true love. The play is set in a contemporary landscape and introduces the character of the Boy, through whose dream we view the play
- Shakespeare, William
Much Ado about Nothing - Call Number: PR2828 .A23 2002
Location: General
Format: DVD
Publication information: New York : Broadway Theatre Archive West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, [2002]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (165 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: This production sets Shakespeare's comedy in turn-of-the-century America, with corresponding sets, costumes, and music
- Shakespeare, William
Othello - Call Number: PR2829.A23 N866 2004
Location: General
Format: DVD
Publication information: Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, [2004]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (205 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: Richard Price presents the special stage-to-screen studio production of the Royal Shakespeare Company's presentation of Othello by William Shakespeare
- Shakespeare, William
Richard Burton's Hamlet - Call Number: PR2807.A23 B8 1999
Location: General
Format: DVD
Publication information: [S.l.] : Onward Production Ltd. and Paul Brownstein Productions Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, c1999
Physical description: 1 videodisc (191 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in. + program guide
Description: Staged in rehearsal room and modern dress conditions, this is Richard Burton's performance as Hamlet. This play opened on Broadway April 9, 1964. This recording is not derived from a film, but from an attempt to simply record the stage show for one cinematic showing by placing cameras in the stalls during an actual performance
- Shakespeare, William
Richard III - Call Number: Shelved by title
Location: Video Rental Collection
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2004
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (158 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: Begins by recapitulating the final scene of Henry IV, Part III with Edward IV being crowned king and Richard jealously viewing the proceedings. Soon afterwards, Edward IV is murdered, drowned in a vat of wine. Richard becomes king but finds his kingdom in dire peril, set upon by Henry Tudor. He musters a final defense for his realm at the Battle of Bosworth
- Shakespeare, William
The Taming of the Shrew - Call Number: PR2832 .A23 1987a
Location: General
Format: VHS
Publication information: New York, N.Y. : Ambrose Video, 1987
Physical description: 1 videocassette (127 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Presents Shakespeare's play about the shrew, Katharina, who is so ill-tempered she seems unlikely to find a husband, and her father refuses to let her younger sister marry until Katherina is off his hands. Petruchio appears, marries Katharina, and tames her so well that he wins a bet with two other men on a test of their wives' obedience
- Sondheim, Stephen
Into the Woods - Call Number: PN1995.9.M86 I6 1999
Location: General
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Chatsworth, CA] : Brandman Productions, Inc. : Distributed by Image Entertainment, [1999], c1990
Physical description: 1 videodisc (153 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: The fairy tale characters of Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Jack (and the Beanstalk) are linked together with the characters of a baker and his wife. Their stories intertwine as they all search for something different in the woods. After they have all found happiness, they must band together to fight a giant
- Wasserstein, Wendy
Kiss Kiss Dahlings - Call Number: PS3573.A798 K57 1999
Location: General
Format: VHS
Publication information: [New York] : The Broadway Theatre Archive, [1999?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (15 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Three generations of actresses in three different eras are portrayed in this humorous love letter to the theater
- Wasserstein, Wendy
Uncommon Women and Others - Call Number: PS3573.A798 U5 2002
Location: General
Format: DVD
Publication information: New York : Broadway Theatre Archive West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, [2002]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: An adaptation for television of the Phoenix Theatre's production of Wendy Wasserstein's play about five friends who hold a reunion seven years after their graduation from Mount Holyoke
- Wilde, Oscar
The Oscar Wilde Collection - Call Number: PR5815 2002
Location: General
Format: DVD
Publication information: [London] : BBC Video Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2002
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (456 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: A collection of four of Oscar Wilde's masterpieces, and a 1995 documentary about his life, his relationship with Alfred Douglas and the trials that destroyed his career. Includes reflections by Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland, and Douglas' grandniece Alice Douglas
Contents: [1] Stage left. The importance of being earnest (1986) The picture of Dorian Gray (1976) (196 min.) -- [2] Stage right. An ideal husband (1969) Lady Windermere's fan (1985) The life and loves of Oscar Wilde (1995) (260 min.)
- Wilder, Thornton
Our Town - Call Number: PS3545.I345 O92 2003
Location: General
Format: DVD
Publication information: [Alexandria, VA] : PBS Broadcasting Service : PBS Home Video, c2003
Physical description: 1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Stage production of Wilder's play a study of life, love, and death in a New England town at the turn of the 20th century
- Williams, Tennessee
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale - Call Number: PS3545.I5365 E33 2002
Location: General
Format: DVD
Publication information: West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur [New York] : Broadway Theatre Archive, [2002?]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Tony Award-winning actress Blythe Danner portrays the sensitive spinster Alma Winemiller in this 1948 drama by Tennessee Williams, a radically revised version of his earlier play Summer and Smoke, set in Mississippi at the turn of the century. Frustrated with longing for the socially prominent young doctor next door, the eccentric, highly emotional minister's daughter decides to settle for one night with him in a rented hotel room. --Container
- Williams, Tennesse
The Glass Menagerie - Call Number: PS3545.I5365 G5 2002
Location: General
Format: DVD
Publication information: [New York] : Broadway Theatre Archive Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, 2002
Physical description: 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: A strong willed woman attempts to impose her shattered dreams into the life and personality of her shy, reclusive daughter
- Williams, Tennessee
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real - Call Number: PS3545.I5365 C32 2002
Location: General
Format: DVD
Publication information: West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, [2002?]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (70 min.) : sd., b&w 4 3/4 in
Description: Set in a fictional Latin American country populated by a worn-out Casanova, a nostalgic Camille, and a disillusioned Byron, Tennessee Williams' allegorical one-act play stars Martin Sheen as an American G.I. named Kilroy, an ex-boxer with the soul of a poet
- Wilson, Lanford
Fifth of July - Call Number: PS3573.I458 F54 2001
Location: General
Format: DVD
Publication information: [New York] : Broadway Theatre Archive Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, c2001
Physical description: 1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
Description: The television production of Lanford Wilson's Broadway play about college friends who agitated for what they hoped would be a better world and who are now looking for a way to revive their dreams of what life can be
Marianne Berger, Reference Librarian
630.942.2338
berger@cod.edu
29 October 2007
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