Theatre is no longer as ephemeral as it once was. Company president and CEO Basil Hero and renowned music publishing executive Michael Fuchs are among the executives behind a new theatre resource, the Broadway Theatre Archive which hopes to have videotaped versions of as many as 35 legit performances available for consumers by year end.

The theatre entrepreneur and catalog-savvy music pros have financed and developed a web-based service that will digitally remaster theatrical performances originally made by PBS, New York's WNET and Los Angeles' KCET.

Thirty-five titles may be ready by the end of the year, an archive source told Playbill On-Line.

According to Broadway Theatre Archive (www.broadwayarchive.com), roughly three dozen new titles will be remastered and made available on a quarterly basis.

Right now, the following titles comprise the archive's catalog. Additional titles may be added in the future: A Case of Libel
A Day Like Today
A Life In The Theater
A Moon For The Misbegotten (Abc Theatre)
A Tale of Two Cities
A Touch of The Poet
Ages of Man
Ah, Wilderness!
Alice In Wonderland
All Over
All The Kings Men
Andres Segovia
Antigone
The Bells of St. Mary's
Beyond The Horizon
Billy Budd
Breakfast With Les And Bess
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Brother to Dragons
The Browning Version
Burning Bright
Caesar And Cleopatra
Casey Stengel
The Ceremony of Innocence
The Charterhouse of Parma
The Cherry Orchard
The Closing Door
The Colored Museum
The Contractor
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Crucible
Cyrano De Bergerac
Dear Liar
Death of A Salesman
The Diary of Anne Frank
Don Juan In Hell
Dorothy Parker's Big Blonde
Eccentricities Of A Nightingale
Enemies
Ethan Frome
The Fallen Idol
Feasting With Panthers
Journey of the Fifth Horseman
Fifth of July
The First Breeze of Summer
The Five-Forty-Eight (John Cheever Trilogy)
Follies In Concert
For Colored Girls...
Forget-Me Not-Lane
From Chekhov With Love
Girls In Their Summer Dresses
The Glass Menagerie
The Good Doctor
Guests of the Nation
Hamlet
Happy Days
Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking
Hedda Gabler
The Heiress
The Human Voice (ABC Stage 67)
Hogan's Goat
I, Don Quixote
I Would Be Called John: Pope John XXIII
Ian McKellen Acting Shakespeare
The Iceman Cometh
Ike
Isaac Stern
Jane Eyre
JFK: A One Man Show
June Moon
Juno and the Paycock
The Kathy and Mo Show
King Lear
Kiss Kiss Dahlings
The Last Mile
Little Women
Look Back In Anger
Lullaby
Mark Twain Tonight
Mass
Medea
Meet Me In St. Louis
Memory of Two Mondays
Mister Lincoln
Monkey, Monkey, Bottle of Beer...
The Moon And Sixpence
Mound Builders
Mourning Becomes Electra
Mrs. Miniver
Ninotchka
Oliver Twist
Out of Our Father's House
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Pablo Casals
Paradise Lost
The Power and the Glory
The Price
The Prince and The Pauper
Rashomon
The Regard Of Flight
Ride with Terror
The Rimers of Eldritch
The Royal Family
The Rules Of The Game
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The School For Scandal
The Seagull
Sea Marks
Secret Service
The Silver Burr
Some Men Need Help
The Taming Of The Shrew
Tartuffe
Three Cheever Stories (Three 1-Hour Episodes)
The Three Musketeers
Three Plays By Tennessee Williams
Treasure Island
The Time Of Your Life
To Be Young Gifted And Black
The Trial Of The Moke
Uncommon
Verna: USO Girl
Waiting For Godot
When Hell Freezes Over I'll Skate
The Widowing Of Mrs. Holroyd
The Winslow Boy
The World Of Sholom Aleichem
Wuthering Heights
Winston Churchill
Year Of The Dragon
You Can't Take It With You
Youth And Beauty! (John Cheever Trilogy)
Zalman Or The Madness Of God and Zero Mostel

-- By Murdoch McBride