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

Sweeney Todd in Concert

Starring: Patti LuPone
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Release Date: 2002-05-14
Running Time: 132 minutes

This delicious production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," a musical thriller of revenge and romance set in Victorian England, features Broadway diva Patti LuPone as Mrs. Lovett and veteran stage actor George Hearn in the title role. Premiering in 1979, the legendary "Sweeney Todd"--winner of nine New York Drama Critics Circle Awards and eight Tony Awards--is... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Damn Yankees

Starring: Gwen Verdon
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Directed By: George Abbott
Studio: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 2004-10-12
Running Time: 111 minutes

America's pastime gets a Faustian twist in this 1958 studio musical, which recounts the ballpark bargain struck by an aging Washington Senators fan obsessed with helping his team trump the Yanks. With echoes of the real-life 1919 Shoeless Joe Jackson scandal, and tart observations on the tradeoffs between youth and experience, Damn Yankees fuses a classic dramatic dilemma with musical comed... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Broadway: The American Musical

Starring: Richard Costas
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Pbs Paramount
Release Date: 2004-10-12
Running Time: 360 minutes

Like its fellow PBS series Ken Burns' Jazz, Broadway: The American Musical is an ambitious and absorbing exploration of a unique American art form that has always been best experienced in live performance. Hosted and narrated by Julie Andrews, the six-part, six-hour documentary traces the history of musical theater from its roots in vaudeville, operetta, and minstrel shows, to the da... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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All Passion Spent

Starring: Wendy Hiller
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Acorn Media
Release Date: 2006-05-30
Running Time: 158 minutes

The acclaimed BBC adaptation of Vita Sackville-West’s beloved novel starring Dame Wendy Hiller

Dame Wendy Hiller delivers a delicately nuanced performance in Vita Sackville-West’s classic story of emerging feminist identity in post-Victorian England.

"When can one please oneself if not in old age?" asks 85-year-old Lady Slane (Hiller), who frees herself from society’s expectations upo... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online

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Donovan: Live in L.A. at the Kodak Theatre

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Raven Productions
Release Date: 2008-01-22
Running Time: 78 minutes

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Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten (Broadway Theatre Archive)

Starring: Colleen Dewhurst
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Directed By: José Quintero
Studio: Image Entertainment
Release Date: 2002-04-23
Running Time: 135 minutes

Theatrical sparks flew when veteran Eugene O'Neill interpreters Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst joined forces in the celebrated 1973 revival of O'Neill's tender semi-autobiographical drama. In a towering performance, the great Robards portrays a cynical, self-hating alcoholic actor based on O'Neill's elder brother, Jamie. The majestic Colleen Dewhurst plays the earthy, gruff daughter of his sch... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Sense & Sensibility Collector's Set (Sense & Sensibility 2008 / Miss Austen Regrets / Persuasion 2007)

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
Release Date: 2008-04-08
Running Time: 267 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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Foyle's War: Set 2

Starring: Honeysuckle Weeks
Studio: Acorn Media
Release Date: 2004-07-20
Running Time: 400 minutes

The critically acclaimed PBS series that weaves mystery with real historical events returns with four stories set in September and October 1940. Winner of the Audience Award at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2003, the series stars Michael Kitchen (Proof of Life) as quietly enigmatic detective Christopher Foyle whose territory on the south coast of England is rocked by the chaos... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Masterpiece Theatre: Elizabeth I - The Virgin Queen

Rated: Unrated
Studio: WGBH Boston
Release Date: 2006-02-28
Running Time: 230 minutes

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Broadway's Lost Treasures Collection (Broadway's Lost Treasures 1-3 & The Best of the Tony Awards - The Plays)

Starring: Betty Buckley
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Acorn Media
Release Date: 2006-05-02
Running Time: 82 minutes

A comprehensive collection of great performances captured on film as part of the annual Tony Award® broadcasts. Broadway royalty and Tony® winners, including Lauren Bacall, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein, serve as hosts and share their own Broadway and Tony® memories.

Produced as PBS specials, Broadway’s Lost Treasures I, II, & III feature legendary stars—inclu... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online

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