The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips from the Tony Awards shows, this unique collection features acting powerhouses James Earl Jones, Annette Bening, Joan Allen, Joe Mantegna, Gary Sinise and Maggie Smith, among others, performing works by such playwrights as August Wilson, David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein and more.

Harvey Fierstein

James Earl Jones

(Jack Jefferson (segment "The Great White Hope") / Troy Maxson (segment "Fences"))

Jane Alexander

(Eleanor Bachman (segment "The Great White Hope") / Sara Goode (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig"))

Gary Sinise

(Randle P. McMurphy (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"))

Amy Morton

(Nurse Ratched (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"))

Tim Sampson

(Chief Bromden (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"))

Maggie Smith

(Lettice Douffet (segment "Lettice and Lovage"))

Margaret Tyzack

(Lotte Schoen (segment "Lettice and Lovage"))

John Lithgow

(René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly"))

BD Wong

(Song Liling (segment "M. Butterfly"))

Sam Waterston

(John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods"))

Robert Prosky

(Andrey Botvinnik (segment "A Walk in the Woods"))

Annette Bening

(Holly Dancer (segment "Coastal Disturbances"))

Tim Daly

(Leo Hart (segment "Coastal Disturbances"))

Madeline Kahn

(Gorgeous Teitelbaum (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig"))

Robert Klein

(Mervyn Kant (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig"))

Art Carney

(Andy Tracey (segment "Lovers"))

Anna Manahan

(Hanna (segment "Lovers"))

Joan Allen

(Heidi Holland (segment "The Heidi Chronicles"))

Peter Friedman

(Scoop Rosenbaum (segment "The Heidi Chronicles"))

Linda Lavin

(Marjorie (segment "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife"))

Michele Lee

(Lee (segment "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife"))

Tony Roberts

(Ira (segment "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife"))

Joe Mantegna

(Bobby Gould (segment "Speed-the-Plow"))

Ron Silver

(Charlie Fox (segment "Speed-the-Plow"))

Philip Bosco

(Saunders (segment "Lend Me a Tenor"))

Victor Garber

(Max (segment "Lend Me a Tenor"))

Charles S. Dutton

(Boy Willie (segment "The Piano Lesson"))

Rocky Carroll

(Lymon (segment "The Piano Lesson"))

Carl Gordon

(Doaker (segment "The Piano Lesson"))

S. Epatha Merkerson

(Berniece (segment "The Piano Lesson"))

Courtney B. Vance

(Corey (segment "Fences"))

Brian Stokes Mitchell

(King (segment "King Hedley II"))

Viola Davis

(Tonya (segment "King Hedley II"))

Delroy Lindo

(Herald Loomis (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone"))

Ed Hall

(Bynum Walker (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone"))

Mel Winkler

(Seth Holly (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone"))

Kevin Kline

(Hamlet (segment "Hamlet"))

Len Cariou

(James Tyrone (segment "Long Day's Journey Into Night"))

Morgan Freeman

(Jaques (segment "As You Like It"))