BROADWAY HD

A Month Of Comedy Favorites

By Stewart F. Lane

BroadwayHD is chock-full of comedies that will have you laughing your way through the fall. Visit broadwayhd.com to learn more!

THE GOES WRONG SHOW
In this two-season comedy series generated by Mischief Theatre (creators of The Play That Goes Wrong), an amateur dramatic society performs a series of half-hour plays for television, all of which go terribly, hilariously wrong.



PRESENT LAUGHTER 
Noel Coward’s totally-irresistible and semi-autobiographical comedy follows a self-obsessed actor (played by Kevin Kline) in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Freely indulging his considerable appetite for wine, women and sleeping late, the theatre’s favorite leading man suddenly finds himself caught between fawning ingénues, crazed playwrights, secret trysts and unexpected twists.


ELAINE STRITCH AT LIBERTY
Star, legend, force of nature—whatever you call Elaine Stritch, it probably applies, and it’s never more apparent than in her deeply personal one-woman show, At Liberty. With only an oversize shirt, black tights, and a chair, Stritch mesmerizes a full house at London’s Old Vic Theatre with tales of her 50-plus-year career on stage and screen.


THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Widely considered one of the funniest plays in English, Oscar Wilde’s much-loved masterpiece throws love, logic and language into the air to make one of theatre’s most dazzling firework displays. Jack, Algy, Gwendolyn and Cecily discover how unsmooth runs the course of true love, while Lady Bracknell keeps a baleful eye on this mayhem of manners.


OLD HATS 
Bill Irwin and David Shiner’s funny, heartwarming, comic adventure Old Hats wowed audiences in New York’s Pershing Square Signature Center. Now, after the show has closed in New York, BroadwayHD welcomes back Bill Irwin and David Shiner in their award-winning, critically acclaimed production. Called “one of the funniest shows of the past few years” by the New York Post, this production reunites the clowns with original director Tina Landau and introduces their new songstress and comic foil Shaina Taub, hailed as “a young Judy Garland meets grown-up Lisa Simpson” by the San Francisco Chronicle. Using music, technology, and movement, Irwin and Shiner combine their inimitable magic and slapstick to create an unforgettable outing that’s fun for the whole family.


THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
Starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan, Jason Robert Brown’s intimate masterpiece about a couple trying to hold together their love affair has come to the big screen. Hilarious, moving, and brimming with memorable songs, The Last Five Years is a modern movie musical that reflects on what it really means to make a relationship work. Available to stream on BroadwayHD beginning July 1st.