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

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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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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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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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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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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Family Guy, Vol. 3 (Season 4, Part 1)

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: 2005-11-29
Running Time: 292 minutes

Family Guy lives! That's great news for the devoted fans who watched in record numbers the reruns on Cartoon Network and made the Family Guy DVDs bestsellers. It's bad news for Mel Gibson, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Jimmy Fallon, Rob Schneider, Skeet Ulrich, Corey Haim, My Two Dads, and other pop-culture detritus this show's writers take infinite delight in kicking... 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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