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Pipeline

A mother’s hopes for her son clash with an educational system rigged against him in PIPELINE, the riveting new play by Dominique Morisseau (Skeleton Crew). 

Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When a...

The Portuguese Kid

In a new comedy starring Jason Alexander, set in Providence, Rhode Island, The Portuguese Kid focuses on the habitually widowed Atalanta, who pays a visit to her second-rate lawyer Barry Dragonetti. Intending to settle her latest husband's affairs, this larger-than-life Greek tightwad quickly becomes a nightmare for her...

The Misanthrope

One man's defiant stand against the hypocrisy of polite society is the theme of Moliere's comic masterpiece.  Ian Holm stars in this film set in Paris in the 1920s.

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The Woodsman

Based on the beloved writings of L. Frank Baum, The Woodsman, an imaginative retelling of the origins of Oz's Tin Woodsman, is the story of the Tin Man, the woman he loved, and the witch that would stop at nothing to keep them apart. Through spectacular life-size puppetry and original music, the ensemble of Strangemen & Co....

The Adventures of Pericles

Pericles, prince of Tyre, is a suitor for the hand of the beautiful daughter of Antiochus, king of Antioch. But all suitors must correctly answer a riddle he gives to earn her hand; if they fail, they are executed. Will Pericles be triumphant? 

Puffs

For seven years a certain boy wizard went to a certain Wizard School and conquered evil. This, however, is not his story. This is the story of the Puffs... who just happened to be there too. A tale for anyone who has never been destined to save the world.

Present Laughter

Now available on demand, exclusively on BroadwayHD!

Present Laughter follows a self-obsessed actor in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Juggling his considerable talent, ego and libido, the theater's favorite leading man suddenly finds himself caught between fawning ingénues, crazed playwrights, secret trysts and unexpected...

On The Exhale

Starring Tony Award-nominee Marin Ireland, this chilling one-woman show was filmed live at Roundabout Theatre Company’s “Roundabout Underground” black box. When a random act of gun violence tears one woman’s world apart, she finds herself caught in the crosshairs of power lost and, very possibly, regained. Ben Brantley...

The Taming of the Shrew

The merchant Baptista has two daughters, but the younger, daintier daughter, Bianca, cannot be married before her strong-willed sister, Katherina. What's a suitor to do? The basis of Hollywood films like Ten Things I Hate About You, this classic romantic comedy is fun for the whole family. 

Hamlet

A classic tale of betrayal, murder, and revenge, staged by the world-renowned Stratford Festival. Prince Hamlet is told by his father's ghost that his uncle Claudius has murdered him and married his widow.

ANN

ANN is a no-holds-barred portrait of Ann Richards, the legendary governor of Texas. This inspiring and hilarious new play brings us face to face with a complex, colorful and captivating character bigger than the state from which she hailed. Written and performed by Emmy® Award winner Holland Taylor (“Two and a Half Men"),...

Ah, Wilderness

In a small New England town at the turn of the 20th century, an intense, poetic and sensitive young man falls in love, drives his mother crazy, and sparks his parents to recall their own romance and youth.

Beyond the Horizon

Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy presents the story of two brothers in love with the same girl, setting the stage for discontent and disillusionment amidst the powerful emotional currents of everyday life.

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Eugene O'Neill's semi-autobiographical masterpiece pulls back the curtain on the Connecticut home of the Tyrone family, where deep-seated resentments and bourbon-fueled tirades cause a family to expose their darkest natures. Starring Alfred Molina as James Tyrone and Jane Kaczmarek as Mary Cavan Tyrone, this powerful...

Indecent

Indecent is inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance—a play seen by some as a seminal work of Jewish culture, and by others as an act of traitorous libel. The play charts the history of an incendiary drama and the path of the artists who risked their...

The Railway Children

The Railway Children tells the story of Bobbie, Peter and Phyllis, three children whose lives change dramatically when their father is mysteriously taken away. They move from London to a cottage in rural Yorkshire with their mother, where they befriend the local railway porter, Perks, and embark on a magical journey of...

King John (2015)

War is the inevitable result when the King of France demands that John relinquish his crown in favour of his nephew, the young Prince Arthur. Excommunication, attempted atrocity, rebellion and assassination all contribute to a political and personal turmoil that finds devastating expression in an anguished mother’s grief for...

The Man Who Came To Dinner

Set during Christmas in the 1930s, this classic comedy deals with famous radio personality Sheridan Whiteside who is invited to dinner at the home of a rich factory owner. Before Whiteside enters the house, he falls and hurts his hip and ends up staying at the home to recover and consequently terrorizes the lives of everyone...

A Midsummer Night's Dream (2014)

From the mind of award-winning director Julie Taymor (The Lion King on Broadway, Frida, Titus) comes a Shakespeare adaptation like none other, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Rich with Taymor's trademark creativity, this immersive and darkly poetic cinematic experience brings the play's iconic fairies, spells and hallucinatory...

The Gabriels: Women Of A Certain Age

WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE takes place in the course of a single night, eight months after we first meet the Gabriels. Patricia, the family matriarch, joins her children and daughters-in-law as they prepare a meal from the past and consider the future of their country, town and home. Paying tribute to the difficult year behind...

The Gabriels: What Did You Expect?

WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? brings us back to the kitchen of the Gabriel family, with the country now in the midst of the general election for President. In the course of one evening in the house they grew up in, history (both theirs and our country's), money, politics, family, art and culture are chopped up and mixed together, while...

The Gabriels: Hungry

Tony Award-winning playwright and director Richard Nelson returns to The Public with HUNGRY, the first in a new three-play cycle introducing us to the Gabriels of Rhinebeck, New York. These three plays unfold in real time and track the lives of the Gabriels throughout the coming presidential election year. To the rhythm of...

Romeo and Juliet (2014)

The digitally captured production of the 2013 Broadway revival of "Romeo and Juliet" stars Orlando Bloom and two-time Tony-nominated Condola Rashad. The production ran for 93 performances at the Richard Rodgers Theatre from September 19th to December 8th, 2013. It is the 36th time "Romeo and Juliet" has appeared on...

Incident at Vichy

Celebrating the Centennial of Arthur Miller’s birth, Incident at Vichy returns the work of the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright to Signature for the first time since his 1997-98 Residency. In Vichy, France at the height of World War II, nine men and a boy are rounded up under suspicious circumstances. As ominous reports...

If I Forget

In the final months before 9/11, liberal Jewish studies professor Michael Fischer has reunited with his two sisters to celebrate their father's 75th birthday. Each deeply invested in their own version of family history, the siblings clash over everything from Michael’s controversial scholarly work to the mounting pressures...

Buried Child

Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Buried Child returns 20 years after its last major New York production, with this revival by The New Group in association with Lisa Maitlin, directed by Scott Elliott. Dodge (Ed Harris) and Halie (Amy Madigan) are barely hanging on to their farmland and their sanity while looking after...

Cyrano De Bergerac

Soldier and poet Cyrano de Bergerac (Kevin Kline) is in love with Roxane (Jennifer Garner), but he's too ashamed to admit it because of his big nose. When a cadet, Christian (Daniel Sunjata), falls for Roxane, he asks for Cyrano's help in sharing his feelings. Cyrano writes love letters signed with Christian's name, and Roxane...

King Lear (2008)

Ian McKellen gives a tour-de-force performance as Shakespeare's tragic titular monarch in this special television adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company production of one the playwright's most enduring and haunting works.

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Antony & Cleopatra

BBC presents the classic play by William Shakespeare. In Jonathan Miller's made-for-tv reworking of this Shakespearian tragedy starring Colin Blakely and Jane Lapotaire, the Egyptian Queen and the Roman leader are revealed as victims of an obsessive love that inevitably leads to their self-destruction.

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King Lear (1982)

BBC presents the classic play by William Shakespeare. Michael Hordern heads the cast in this production of one of Shakespeare's most intricate tragedies. The aging King Lear decides to abdicate and divide his kingdom in accordance with how much his three daughters say they love him. His youngest daughter refuses to answer and...

Maestra Normal

Juan Pablo Geretto writes and stars in this work directed by Ana Sans that explores the nostalgic world of childhood and memories. The acclaimed piece received two Estrella de Mar awards in 2011.

Spanish language, presented with English subtitles.

Pipeline

A mother’s hopes for her son clash with an educational system rigged against him in PIPELINE, the riveting new play by Dominique Morisseau (Skeleton Crew). 

Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When a...

The Adventures of Pericles

Pericles, prince of Tyre, is a suitor for the hand of the beautiful daughter of Antiochus, king of Antioch. But all suitors must correctly answer a riddle he gives to earn her hand; if they fail, they are executed. Will Pericles be triumphant? 

Salomé

Al Pacino and Jessica Chastain star in the Biblical story of Salomé, a girl who agrees to perform the dance of the seven veils in return for John the Baptist's head on a silver platter.

The Three Sisters (1981)

Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married...

Look Back in Anger

Kenneth Branagh plays working-class roisterer Jimmy Porter, the archetypal "angry young man" whose college education has led nowhere. Stuck in a go-nowhere job at a candy store, Porter rebels against the establishment through his boorish treatment of his wife (Emma Thompson) and mistress (Siobhan Redmond). Branagh's forceful...

Macbeth (1979)

Macbeth is a daring member of the Scottish military who receives a revelation from three menacing sorceresses that he will someday become the King of Scotland. This information gives him a thirst for power, and with prompting from his wife, Lady Macbeth, he kills the current leader in order to take the throne. But he must...

Ten Blocks on the Camino Real

Martin Sheen stars as the eternal American G.I. Kilroy, a poetic soul condemned to spiritual death, in Tennessee William’s allegorical one-act play. In a dream-like fictitious Latin American country, a worn-out Casanova, a Camille living on memories, a Byron pitiful in his disillusioned pride, and others less famous live out...

A Memory of Two Mondays

Dramatizing a compacted group of memories passing over several years, Arthur Miller’s vivid comedy-drama portrays the nature of life during America’s great Depression. The emphasis is on mood and characterization as Miller draws on his own personal experience to evoke what the 1930’s were like for workers to whom a job...

A Touch of the Poet

Cornelius "Con" Melody is an Irish tavern keeper in New England who lives in reverence of his former days as a nobleman and decorated officer in the British army during the Napoleonic wars. Impoverished now, he struts about in his uniform and plots to make money by manipulating the love of his daughter for the son of a wealthy...

Enemies

Maxim Gorky's powerful drama about the social ferment that culminated in the 1917 Russian Revolution is set on an estate in provincial Russia in 1905. In a sun-dappled garden, some factory owners and their wives discuss the unrest among the workers. Rather than submit to strike, they decide to close down the factory. When an...

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Eugene O'Neill's semi-autobiographical masterpiece pulls back the curtain on the Connecticut home of the Tyrone family, where deep-seated resentments and bourbon-fueled tirades cause a family to expose their darkest natures. Starring Alfred Molina as James Tyrone and Jane Kaczmarek as Mary Cavan Tyrone, this powerful...

Three Sisters (1970)

Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga (Jeanne Watts), a schoolmistress, attempts to support her siblings and the home that is the sole legacy of their late army officer father. Masha (Joan Plowright) finds relief from her empty marriage in an affair with a...

Antigone

Juliet Stevenson and Gwen Taylor star in this adaption of this classic Theban play by Sophocles. The war is over.  Both of Oedipus' sons have been killed and Creon rules in Thebes, determined to establish law and order to save the state from any further carnage.

Closed captions available.

The Merchant of Venice (1972)

Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay and Charles Gray star in the adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic play. The Venice Titian and the Belmont of Botticelli are the visual inspiration behind this lavish production.

Indecent

Indecent is inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance—a play seen by some as a seminal work of Jewish culture, and by others as an act of traitorous libel. The play charts the history of an incendiary drama and the path of the artists who risked their...

Hedda Gabler

Fiona Shaw and Stephen Rea star in Ibsen's classic story of a woman who sets out to destroy her husband and his smug, middle-class attitudes, but instead finds herself having to make a grave decision. Hedda Gabler is the television debut of the highly acclaimed theatre director, Deborah Warner.

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Beyond the Horizon

Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy presents the story of two brothers in love with the same girl, setting the stage for discontent and disillusionment amidst the powerful emotional currents of everyday life.

On The Exhale

Starring Tony Award-nominee Marin Ireland, this chilling one-woman show was filmed live at Roundabout Theatre Company’s “Roundabout Underground” black box. When a random act of gun violence tears one woman’s world apart, she finds herself caught in the crosshairs of power lost and, very possibly, regained. Ben Brantley...

Oedipus the King

Claire Bloom and Michael Pennington star in this adaption of the classic Theban play by Sophocles. As plagues ravish Thebes, Oedipus seeks to find the murderer of the former king.

The Gabriels: Women Of A Certain Age

WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE takes place in the course of a single night, eight months after we first meet the Gabriels. Patricia, the family matriarch, joins her children and daughters-in-law as they prepare a meal from the past and consider the future of their country, town and home. Paying tribute to the difficult year behind...

The Gabriels: What Did You Expect?

WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? brings us back to the kitchen of the Gabriel family, with the country now in the midst of the general election for President. In the course of one evening in the house they grew up in, history (both theirs and our country's), money, politics, family, art and culture are chopped up and mixed together, while...

The Gabriels: Hungry

Tony Award-winning playwright and director Richard Nelson returns to The Public with HUNGRY, the first in a new three-play cycle introducing us to the Gabriels of Rhinebeck, New York. These three plays unfold in real time and track the lives of the Gabriels throughout the coming presidential election year. To the rhythm of...

El Principio de Arquimedes

An innocent gesture? In a pool locker room, four adults argue about the meaning and consequences of a kiss between a coach and a child who is afraid to get in the water.  Our fears and prejudices rise to the surface as we are forced to take sides about what occurred and what kind of society we want to live in. 

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The Iceman Cometh

In the faded light of Harry Hope's 1912 skid row bar, a rag tag group of fallen men, each like a ghost haunting the wreckage of his own life, await the annual arrival of Hickey (Lee Marvin). This year, however, the charismatic Hickey brings not the usual rounds of drinks and pats on the back, but the unwelcome news that he's...

Pericles

BBC presents the classic play by William Shakespeare. Mike Gwilym and Amanda Redman star. The many adventures of the Prince of Tyre begin when the King of Antioch offers his beautiful daughter’s hand in marriage to any man who can answer his riddle.

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Othello (1990)

A slightly updated version of Othello set in the 19th century Cyprus, where all characters wear uniforms and dresses from the American Civil War era. Othello, a heroic aging Moroccan mercenary marries beautiful and loving Desdemona, daughter of a general. Their love has no match, but their doom is spelled by none other than...

Copenhagen

Based on the acclaimed stage play by Michael Frayn, and adapted and directed by Howard Davies, Daniel Craig and Stephen Rea star in this thought-provoking drama. Long after their deaths, Neils Bohr and Werner Heisenberg look back on their 1941 meeting in occupied Copenhagen. Old friends, Bohr and Heisenberg revolutionized...

The Devil's Disciple

An early comedy by George Bernard Shaw set in New England during the American War of Independence. Dick Dudgeon is mistaken by a British officer for the rebel Pastor Anderson. He is about to be hanged when the real Pastor arrives to save him...

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