New York Shakespeare Festival Movie Trailers

All's Well That Ends Well Trailer (1978)

01 October 1978

Video recording of a 1978 New York Shakespeare Festival performance. Directed for stage by Wilford Leach and videotaped by Jaime Caro.

Alice at the Palace Trailer (1982)

16 January 1982

Meryl Streep stars as Alice in this production of Elizabeth Swados' musical, which was adapted from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.

Much Ado About Nothing Trailer (1973)

02 February 1973

Don Pedro and his men (Teddy Roosevelt Roughriders) have returned from the wars. After Beatrice turns down his proposal, Don Pedro decides to matchmake her with Benedick (her former boyfriend), but she being an independent-minded, bicycle-riding Suffragette type, it's going to take a bit of trickery.

Hamlet Trailer (1964)

17 June 1964

Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark, and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.

Coriolanus Trailer (1979)

31 March 1979

A video recording of a New York Shakespeare Festival 1979 stage production of Coriolanus with an all-black and Hispanic cast.

Kiss Me, Petruchio Trailer (1981)

07 January 1981

A documentary about the 1978 stage production of The Taming of the Shrew by the New York City Shakespeare company at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park.

The Pirates of Penzance Trailer (1980)

01 June 1980

As a young child, Frederic had been apprenticed to a pirate by mistake when he should have been apprenticed to a pilot.

Sticks and Bones Trailer (1973)

17 August 1973

A young man returns home from Vietnam blind. He is very bitter about the war and alienates his family and friends.

A Midsummer Night's Dream Trailer (1985)

19 December 1985

Theseus has defeated Hippolyta in battle, and now claims her as his bride. But before the nuptials begin, a pair of young lovers flee into the forest to be married, pursued by a pair of not-lovers.