Broadway theatre archive, Set 1, Great performances

Resource Information

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

Label

Broadway theatre archive, Set 1, Great performances

Title number

Set 1

Title part

Great performances

Statement of responsibility

Kultur

Title variation

• Great performances
• Broadway theatre archive

Contributor

• Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898
• Eikenberry, Jill.
• Allen, Debbie, 1950-
• Kurtz, Swoosie.
• Aberlin, Betty
• Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005
• Cobb, Lee J., 1911-1976.
• Kultur International Films
• Streep, Meryl.
• Swados, Elizabeth
• Wasserstein, Wendy
• Whitfield, Lynn.
• Woodard, Alfre, 1953-
• Shange, Ntozake
• Dunnock, Mildred.

Actor

• Cobb, Lee J., 1911-1976.
• Whitfield, Lynn.
• Streep, Meryl.
• Aberlin, Betty
• Kurtz, Swoosie.
• Allen, Debbie, 1950-
• Eikenberry, Jill.
• Dunnock, Mildred.

Subject

• Mount Holyoke College -- Alumni and alumnae -- Fiction
• Suicide -- Fiction
• Televised plays
• Theater -- New York (State) | New York
• Traveling sales personnel -- Fiction
• Women college graduates -- United States -- Fiction
• African American women -- Social conditions -- Fiction
• Alice, (Fictitious character from Carroll) -- Fiction
• Dysfunctional families -- England -- Fiction
• Families -- United States -- Fiction
• Fathers and sons -- United States -- Fiction
• Loman, Willy (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
• Marriage -- Fiction
• Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005 -- Television adaptations

Genre

• Television adaptations
• Fiction

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

Member of

• Kultur collection

Cataloging source

lbi

Characteristic

videorecording

Dewey number

792.95

Intended audience

E

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

Series statement

• Broadway theatre archive. Great performances
• Kultur collection

Target audience

general

Technique

live action