Broadway theatre archive, Great performances, set 1,

Resource Information

The work Broadway theatre archive, Great performances, set 1, represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Memorial Hall Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Broadway theatre archive, Great performances, set 1,

Title number

Great performances, set 1,

Contributor

• Dunnock, Mildred
• Eikenberry, Jill
• Cobb, Lee J., 1911-1976
• Kurtz, Swoosie
• Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005
• Shange, Ntozake
• Allen, Debbie
• Streep, Meryl
• Swados, Elizabeth
• Wasserstein, Wendy
• Aberlin, Betty
• Whitfield, Lynn
• Kultur International Films
• Woodard, Alfre, 1953-

Actor

• Whitfield, Lynn
• Aberlin, Betty
• Allen, Debbie
• Streep, Meryl
• Kurtz, Swoosie
• Cobb, Lee J., 1911-1976
• Eikenberry, Jill
• Dunnock, Mildred
• Woodard, Alfre, 1953-

Film distributor

• Kultur International Films

Subject

• Fathers and sons -- Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction television programs
• Film adaptations
• Marriage -- Drama
• Mount Holyoke College -- Alumni and alumnae -- Drama
• Musical films
• Suicide -- Drama
• Televised plays
• Television adaptations
• Theater -- New York (State) | New York
• Traveling sales personnel -- Drama
• Traveling sales personnel -- United States -- Drama
• Women college graduates -- United States -- Drama
• African American women -- Social conditions -- Drama
• Alice, (Fictitious character from Carroll) -- Drama
• Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 -- Television adaptations
• Dysfunctional families -- Drama
• African American women -- Drama
• Families -- Drama
• Families -- United States -- Drama
• Fantasy films
• Fathers and sons -- United States -- Drama

Genre

• Film adaptations
• Drama
• Fantasy films
• Feature films
• Fiction television programs
• Musical films
• Televised plays
• Television adaptations

Language

eng

Summary

This first set of Broadway Theatre Archives Great Performances includes the superb 1966 television adaptation by Arthur Miller of his Pulitzer Prize-winning modern tragedy, Death of a Salesman; Alice at the Palace, a "music hall" version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; Uncommon Women and Others, Wendy Wasserstein's play about Mount Holyoke graduates at a reunion assessing whether they have achieved their goals; and For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, a "choreopoem" illuminating the story and struggle of black women in America in song, poetry, and dance

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Dewey number

791.45/75

LC call number

PN1992.77

LC item number

.B7633 2014

PerformerNote

Lee J. Cobb, Mildred Dunnock (Death of a Salesman); Meryl Streep, Betty Aberlin, Debbie Allen (Alice at the Palace); Meryl Streep, Swoosie Kurtz, Jill Eikenberry (Uncommon Women and Others); Alfre Woodard, Lynn Whitfield (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide)

Runtime

357

Technique

live action