Theatrical Performance .   New! The Grapes of Wrath . Gary Sinese stars as Tom Joad in the 1991 PBS video production of the Steppenwolf Theatre's Broadway adaptation of Steinbeck's masterpiece.   The House of Blue Leaves (John Guare): Lincoln Center production 1987 with John Mahoney, Swoosie Kurtz, Christine Baransky, Julie Hagerty and Ben Stiller, 2 single-layer disks.   True West (Shepard) John Malkovich and Gary Sinese, 2 single-layer disks.   Sister Suzie Cinema (Breuer, Telson) and Superstitions (Jones, Stone), 1 single-layer disk.   The Regard of Flight (Irwin, O'Connor) Bill Irwin's wonderfully funny 1983 debut is a "New Vaudeville" piece about the conflict between art and intellect. Irwin went on to win a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Award and worldwide acclaim. Incudes "The Clown Bagatelles". 1 single-layer disk.   Bill Irwin: As Seen on TV, from PBS' Alive From Off-Center. Also, an appearance on NBC Saturday Night Live, Bill and Ted Koppell celebrate Charlie Chaplin's centennial and a scene from Largely New York on the 1989 TONY Awards show. 1 single-layer disk.   Bill Irwin, Clown Prince 2004 (Hoyle, O'Connor, Shiner, Skinner, Taymor, Williams, Martin) PBS' Great Performances survey of the great clown's life and work, 1 single-layer disk   The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare) Lincoln Center 1987 dir: Robert Woodruff, with Flying Karamazovs, Avner the Eccentric, Vaudeville Nouveau, 2 single-layer disks.   Happy End (Brecht-Weill) Arena Stage Comapny, Washington D.C. 1986, 2 single-layer disks   On the Razzle (Tom Stoppard), National Theatre of Great Britain, 2 single-layer disks   The Cradle Will Rock (Blitzstein) The Acting Company, New York, directed and introduced by John Houseman, 1 single-layer disk. Note: this is not the Tim Robbins feature film. It's the controversial play itself, directed by Mr. Houseman, who produced and directed the original with Orson Welles, 1 single-layer disk.   All Night Long (O'Keefe), Magic Theatre, San Francisco, 1980, 40-minute compilation of scenes, 1 single-layer disk.   Minnie Mouse and the Tap-Dancing Buddha, Magic Theatre, San Francisco, 1978, beat poet Michael McClure's comic Zen operetta features cartoon characters, fairies, a dual-incarnation of the Buddha and Shakespeare himself. Music by Rick Nowels. 1 single-layer disk.   You Can't Take It With You (Kauffman, Hart), Broadway revival 1984 directed by Ellis Rabb with Jason Robards, Jr. and Colleen Dewhurst, 2 single-layer disks   The Miser (Moliere) BBC/WNET 13 1987, Nigel Hawthorne, Janet Suzman, Jim Broadbent, 1 single-layer disk     Jean Shepherd's PBS Movies   The Phantom of the Open Hearth (1976) 1 single-layer disk.   The Great American 4th of July and Other Disasters (1982) 1 single-layer disk   The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski (1983) (1 single-layer disk   Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss (1988) 1 single-layer disk.     Educational   The Story of English, Written by Robert MacNeil and Robert McCrum, hosted by Mr. MacNeil. The origins and development of the language from the 5th cenury to the 20th. 9 single-layer disks     Performance Documentaries     Celebration at Big Sur 1971 (Bryant, Demetrakas) Joan Baez, Mimi Farina, John Sebastian, Joni Mitchell, Dorothy Morrison, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. A two-day concert at the Esalen Institute on a cliff above the Pacific. Many of the musicians had just performed at the Woodstock Festival.   Bay Area Playwrights Festival 1981 (Shepard, Chaikin, Woodruff, Mednick, Farabough) and Pickle Family Circus 1983, 1 single-layer disk   Bay Area Performance Artists 1986 (Survival Research Labs, George Coates, Adams/Sellars, Mime Troupe, Antenna theatre), 1 single-layer disk   West Coast Beat and Beyond (Ginsberg, Kerouac, Corso, more) plus shorts about S.F. Bay Area performers mid-1980s, 1 single-layer disk.   The Making of Dylan Thomas -Under Milk Wood, South Bank Show #273 10/5/88, George Martin, Anthony Hopkins, 1 single-layer disk.   Laurence Olivier, a Life: South Bank Show #121 and 122, 10/17-24/1982, 3 single layer disks.   Peter Brook - South Bank Show #305 12/5/89, Theatre of Cruelty, Marat/Sade, Midsummer Nights Dream, Maharabatra, 1 single-layer disk   re: King Lear- South Bank Show 1987, Brook, Miller, Olivier, Hopkins, 1 single-layer disk   Sir Peter Hall's Finale - So. Bank Show 1988, Royal National Theatre, simultaneous productions of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline and The Tempest, 1 single-layer disk.     Opera     Candide (Bernstein, Wheeler, Wilbur et al): New York City Opera production directed by Harold Prince, 1986, 3 single layer disks   Barber of Seville (Rossini): Metropolitan Opera, Kathleen Battle, Leo Nucci 1988, 2 single-layer disks   Nixon in China (Adams, Sellars) Houston Grand Opera premier production, hosted by Walter Cronkite, 2 single layer disks.   Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) Metropolitan Opera 1985, Carol Vaness, Kathleen Battle, Federica von Stade, production: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, 3 single-layer disks   Aida (Verdi) : Live from the Metropolitan Opera, 1/3/1985 - Leontyne Price's "Farewell to Opera". James McCracken as Radames, Simon Estes as Amonasro, and Florenza Cossotto as Amneris. James Levine conducts. Special features include a Verdi biography and an interview with James Levine . 3 single-layed disks.   Show Boat (Kern, Hammerstein, Ferber) Paper Mill playhouse, New Jersey, 1989, 2 single-layer disks     Films and Videos   Northern Lights (Rob Nilsson), award-winning indie feature film, b&w, 1 single-layer disk   Savage Messiah (Ken Russell), 1 single-layer disk   Miscellaneous Cartoons: "King-size Canary" (Tex Avery - 1947) , "Post-war Inventions" (Terrytoon - 1945), "Little Bantamweight" (Rudolph Ising - 1938), more, 1 single-layer disk   Bay Area Independent Sci-Fi filmmakers 1982 (short films, parodies, etc.), Ernie Fosselius and others,1 single-layer disk     Shorts     The Secret World of Haute-Coture. 2006 documenatry from Margy Kinmonth; 1 single-layer disk.   Tex Avery the King of Cartoons (biography), 1 single-layer disk   Colossus of the Golden Gate, documentary building the Golden Gate Bridge, 1 single-layer disk   The Case of Dashiell Hammett, documentary, 1 single-layer disk   The Quake of '89, Local Bay Area and national news coverage, 2 single-layer disks