Your Guide To The Best Theater DVDs Starting With The Highest Reviews.

Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre -The Complete Collection Gift Set

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Starmaker II
Release Date: 2005-02-15
Running Time: 717 minutes

One of the first gems of the cable TV age, Faerie Tale Theatre brings 26 classic tales to life. Produced over a five-year span (1982-87) for Showtime, FTT brought together creative dramatics and whimsical writing with some of the top talents of the day. Executive producer/host Shelley Duvall (who was coming off her breakout role in The Shining) shepherds this mix of theatrical... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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A Foreign Field

Starring: Leo McKern
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Acorn Media
Release Date: 2005-11-01
Running Time: 89 minutes

Two British war vets (Alec Guinness and Leo McKern) meet an American vet (John Randolph) when all three return to Normandy on the 50th anniversary of D-Day. Old rivalries resurface, particularly when two of the men discover they are searching for the same lost love (Jeanne Moreau). A lonely woman (Lauren Bacall) with her own painful but mysterious memories joins the group, while the American vetâ€... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Autism - The Musical

Starring: Rosanne Katon
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: DOCURAMA
Release Date: 2008-05-13
Running Time: 93 minutes

It's hard to imagine an unlikelier feel-good documentary than the uplifting Autism: The Musical. Directed for HBO by Tricia Regan, but truly the brainchild of the vision--and sheer will--of Elaine Hall, the film is both unflinching in its portrayal of autism, and triumphant in the ways it shows connections among the film's subjects. For those dealing with autism--and as the diagnosis grows ... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Sense & Sensibility (with Miss Austen Regrets) (BBC TV 2008)

Starring: Charity Wakefield
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
Release Date: 2008-04-08
Running Time: 174 minutes

Lush, dramatic, and beautifully acted, the BBC's three-part miniseries Sense & Sensibility captures the languid urgency that resonates throughout the Jane Austen novel on which it is based. The miniseries begins with a seduction scene: As a young girl cautiously gives herself to a man, she asks, "But when will you come back?" He answers ominously, "Soon... very soon," and gallops off into t... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (London Stage Revival)

Starring: Josefina Gabrielle
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Release Date: 2003-11-18
Running Time: 180 minutes

When Mary Rodgers, daughter of the composer Richard Rodgers, was reported as saying she never wanted to see another Oklahoma!, it was her way of paying the highest tribute to Trevor Nunn's production at the Royal National Theatre which was subsequently taken into the studio and filmed. The camera follows the playgoers into the auditorium of the Olivier where in their company we watch the sh... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Don Quixote / Baryshnikov, Harvey, American Ballet Theatre

Starring: Cynthia Harvey
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kultur Video
Release Date: 2003-04-15
Running Time: 90 minutes

Mikhail Baryshnikov’s sparkling full-length production of Don Quixote captures all the excitement, Spanish color, and humor of Cervantes’ original masterpiece. It is one of the most popular and joyful ballets surviving from the imperial Russian ballet’s repertory. The famous virtuosic pas de deux is danced in this performance by Baryshnikov "like a dream," according to the New York Po... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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South Pacific in Concert from Carnegie Hall

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Rhino / Wea
Release Date: 2006-06-06
Running Time: 172 minutes

Broadway, like everyone, loves Reba McEntire. The redheaded Oklahoma firebrand took on the one-night-only concert role of Nellie Forbush on June 9, 2005—the role Mary Martin immortalized in the 1949 Rodgers & Hammerstein classic South Pacific—and the rialto’s toughest critics, led by The New York Times’ Ben Brantley, instantly surrendered. "Open-voiced and open-faced, she was born to play ... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Blame It on Fidel

Starring: Julie Depardieu
Rated: Unrated
Studio: Koch Lorber Films
Release Date: 2007-11-06
Running Time: 95 minutes

Warm-hearted and even-handed, this sly political satire centers on Anna (Nina Kervel-Bey), a nine-year-old French girl accustomed to comfort and routine. In 1970, when her attorney father, Fernando (Stefano Accorsi), takes in his Spanish refugee sister, Anna’s tightly-conscripted world starts to unravel. The process accelerates when he and her journalist mother, Marie (Julie Depardieu, daughter ... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Death of a Salesman (Broadway Theatre Archive)

Starring: Gene Wilder
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kultur Video
Release Date: 2002-04-16
Running Time: 120 minutes

"Attention must be paid" to this abbreviated but superb 1966 television adaptation by Arthur Miller of his Pulitzer Prize-winning modern tragedy, starring the incomparable Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock recreating their original Broadway roles as the Lomans. In a career-defining performance, Cobb portrays the suffering Willy Loman--the middle-aged man at the end of his emotional rope--with Dunnoc... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Lord Peter Wimsey - Murder Must Advertise

Starring: Mark Eden
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Acorn Media
Release Date: 2003-01-07
Running Time: 200 minutes

"There is something going on in the organization that is very undesirable and might lead to serious consequences," reads a note that the ill-fated Victor Dean wrote to his superior just before he took a fatal fall down the metal staircase at Pym's Publicity Ltd. These darned suspicious circumstances lead Pym to hire Lord Peter Wimsey to determine whether Dean's death was an accident or murder or e... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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