Acorn Media will release the new DVD May 1 as part of its Broadway's Lost Treasures Collection. Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein, most recently on Broadway in the revival of Fiddler on the Roof, hosts the 65-minute recording, which features performances by Morgan Freeman, Len Cariou, Joan Allen, Annette Bening, Maggie Smith, Gary Sinise and James Earl Jones, among others. The complete list of performances follows:
Morgan Freeman, As You Like It
Len Cariou, Long Day's Journey Into Night
Kevin Kline, Hamlet
Ed Hall, Delroy Lindo, Mel Winkler, Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Viola Davis, Brian Stokes Mitchell, King Hedley II
James Earl Jones, Courtney B. Vance, Fences
Charles S. Dutton, Rocky Carroll, S. Epatha Merkerson, The Piano Lesson
Philip Bosco, Victor Garber, Lend Me a Tenor
Joe Mantegna, Ron Silver, Speed-the-Plow
Michele Lee, Linda Lavin, Tony Roberts, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife
Joan Allen, Peter Friedman, The Heidi Chronicles
Art Carney, Anna Manahan, Lovers
Robert Klein, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn, The Sisters Rosensweig
Annette Bening, Timothy Daly, Coastal Disturbances
Robert Prosky, Sam Waterston, A Walk in the Woods
John Lithgow, B. D. Wong, M. Butterfly
Maggie Smith, Margaret Tyzack, Lettice and Lovage
Gary Sinise, Tim Sampson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, The Great White Hope The DVD also contains original Playbill cover art for all of the featured plays.
"The Best of the Tony Awards—The Plays" has a retail price of $19.99. For more information visit www.acornonline.com.
