+ Great Plays was an Old Time radio Show featuring plays from all ages. Includes William Shakespeare, Victor Hugo, George Bernard Shaw, Richard Sheridan, Pierre Corneille, Robert Fitzgerald, James M. Barrie, William Gillette just to name few. Broadcast from 1938 to 1942 Click here to read more about Great Plays
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Please enjoy these 82 old time radio episodes:
| Air Date | Title | Synopsis | Rating |
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| 10.22.1939 | great plays alcestis | ||
| 10.15.1939 | great plays antigone |
+ Program #1. "Antigone". The first show of the season, the third play of the "Oedipus" trilogy. T... | |
| 05.07.1939 | great plays elizabeth the queen | ||
| 04.30.1939 | great plays white haired boy |
+Program #27. Blue Network. "The White-Headed Boy". A play from the Abbey Theatre of Dublin, from 1... | |
| 04.23.1939 | great plays oliver cromwell |
+Program #26. Blue Network. "Oliver Cromwell". A "contemporary" drama about the famous reformer who... | |
| 04.09.1939 | great plays justice |
+ Program #24. Blue Network. "Justice". An interesting courtroom drama about a young clerk convicte... | |
| 04.02.1939 | great plays the blue bird |
+Program #23. Blue Network. "The Bluebird". A delightful fantasy about two children and their searc... | |
| 03.19.1939 | great plays cyrano de bergerac |
+Program #21. Blue Network. "Cyrano de Bergerac". The well-known story of |
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| 03.12.1939 | great plays camille |
+ Program #20. Blue Network. "Camille" ("The Lady Of The Camelias"). Sustaining. | |
| 03.05.1939 | great plays patience |
+Program #19. Blue Network. "Patience". The famous operetta. | |
| 02.19.1939 | great plays redemption |
+Program #17. Blue Network. "Redemption". A very Russian tragedy about a husband who feigns suicide... | |
| 02.12.1939 | great plays the octaroon |
+Program #16. Blue Network. "The Octaroon" or "Life In Louisiana". A play written in 1859 about sla... | |
| 02.05.1939 | great plays richelieu |
+Program #15. Blue Network. "Richelieu". Intrigue in the court of Louis XIII, as the wily Cardinal ... | |
| 01.29.1939 | great plays hernani |
+Program #14. Blue Network. "Ernani". The love of a bandit hero and intrigue in the court of Charle... | |
| 01.22.1939 | great plays mary stuart |
+ Program #13. Blue Network. "Mary Stuart". Sustaining. | |
| 01.08.1939 | great plays she stoops to conquer |
+ Program #11. Blue Network. "She Stoops To Conquer". "The Godfather" of all mistaken identity come... | |
| 12.18.1938 | great plays le bourgeois gentilhomme |
+Program #10. Blue Network. "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme". Perhaps the first musical comedy, definitel... | |
| 12.11.1938 | great plays life is a dream |
+Program #9. Blue Network. "Life Is But A Dream". A story about a king of Poland who learns that hi... | |
| 12.04.1938 | great plays le cid |
+Program #8. Blue Network. "Le Cid". A play written in 1637, set in Spain. The story of a conflict,... | |
| 11.27.1938 | great plays (07) othello | ||
| 11.20.1938 | great plays julius caesar | ||
| 11.06.1938 | great plays the tragic story of dr. faustus |
+Program #4. Blue Network. "The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus". The play was subsequently hear... | |
| 10.23.1938 | great plays everyman |
+Program #2. Blue Network. "Everyman". An anonymous English morality play from 1529. The play was s... | |
| 10.16.1938 | great plays trojan woman |
+Program #1. Blue Network. "The Trojan Women". The first show of the second series. A production of... | |
| 04.30.1938 | great plays the playboy of the western world |
+ Program #10. "The Playboy Of The Western World". This folk-comedy was first produced in 1907. |
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