Theatre Night

Jan 21, 1957

Internalised father issues cause a bride to experience cold feet on her wedding day.

Jan 28, 1957

In the smallest country in the world, the daughter of the American ambassador falls in love with the son of the Russian ambassador. Oops.

Feb 18, 1957

A young tomboy named Frankie is forced to face her own immaturity as a result her older brother's wedding.

Mar 4, 1957

An American soldier in West Berlin deserts and goes on the run when faced with false trafficking and murder charges. He takes shelter with a cabaret singer, whom he manages to persuade to help prove his innocence.

Mar 18, 1957

Mar 31, 1957

An imminent wedding is endangered by a domineering matriarch.

May 27, 1957

A couple of Australian cane-cutters plan their usual annual holiday of boozing and womanizing; but this year it's different.

Jun 4, 1957

A newly married couple are given a Budgie as a wedding present. Little do they know that the Budgie is possessed by the spirit of the bride's late first husband.

Jun 12, 1957

In this musical adaptation of Max Beerbohm's 1911 novel, a beautiful young woman visits Oxford, causing all the male students to fall madly in love with her.

Jul 1, 1957

An engaged man begins to fall for another woman. Fortunately, his fiancée is loathsome, making his decision easier, though the audience is left wondering why it takes the entire runtime to decide it, and why he was ever engaged to the undesirable woman in the first place.

Jul 8, 1957

Aug 12, 1957

Sir Robert and Lady Lydia Marlowe have spent many years abroad in the diplomatic service. On their 25th wedding anniversary, she announces they should go their own separate ways. Her gift is a series of love letters Robert had written to different women throughout his career, each of whom Lydia has befriended.

Aug 27, 1957

Sep 2, 1957

A satirical look at Victorian life, set entirely in the drawing room of Henry Mansfield's house in an English provincial town in 1884.

Sep 16, 1957

In 1950s Paris, journalist Sibilot works at right-wing publication Soir á Paris, where he pens anti-communist propaganda. His life hits a major turnpoint when he's unable to come up with a great idea, and his boss informa him that he will be fired if no great story comes soon.

Nov 28, 1957

Happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant John Lawless lands a job as the butler of unconventional millionaire Anthony J. Drexel Biddle. His daughter Cordelia tires of his unusual antics--especially since the nice young men around town all fear him. Wouldn't you fear a father-in-law that keeps alligators for pets and teaches boxing at his daily Bible courses?

Jan 12, 1958

Jan 21, 1958

Feb 11, 1958

Apr 10, 1958

Apr 29, 1958

May 15, 1958

A routine board meeting of a successful company reveals some facts that a traitor has left the company in a perilous position on the verge of ruin.

Jun 5, 1958

Jim Cherry has the opportunity to change his life - will he take the risk?

Jun 26, 1958

Sep 18, 1958

An extract from a current West End theatre production, a farcical comedy set in a far-off country.

Sep 30, 1958

A Man comes into a pub and boasts that he has just killed his father. Instead of condemning him for the crime, the locals revel in his story and praise him for his deed, with the daughter of the landlord falling for this "dashing hero". Things take an even more surprising turn, when the father enters the pub. Based on John Millington Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World.

Nov 18, 1958

Dec 11, 1958

An unscrupulous small-time promoter discovers a young singer and determines to make him a star.

Dec 16, 1958

Jan 29, 1959

Feb 12, 1959

Mar 5, 1959

Apr 9, 1959

Psychological drama about a British patrol in the Burmese jungle who fall out among themselves.

May 25, 1959

May 28, 1959

Jun 2, 1959

Jun 7, 1959

Aug 11, 1959

Sep 15, 1959

Sep 29, 1959

A handsome stranger disturbs the marriage of the Earl and Countess of Rhyall.

Nov 10, 1959

Dec 1, 1959

Jan 20, 1960

A general's wife turns his official home into a hotel for wealthy Americans.

Feb 17, 1960

Mar 16, 1960

Jul 26, 1960

Aug 23, 1960

Sep 20, 1960

Nov 1, 1960

Nov 29, 1960

Jan 26, 1961

Apr 11, 1961

Jul 7, 1961

Aug 3, 1961

Aug 24, 1961