Performance audiobooks

The Actor Retires

By: Bruce Norris

Narrated by: Lucy Childs, Christopher Donahue, Kevin Hurley,...

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Steppenwolf Theatre Company playwright and actor Bruce Norris presents a hilarious comedy in which an actor decides to end his career, burn his headshots and resumés, and become a serious furniture maker.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Bruce Norris, D.W. Moffett, Lucy Childs, Christopher Donahue, Kevin Hurley, Amy Morton,... Read more

Tales from Shakespeare

By: Charles Lamb & Mary Lamb

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This retelling in prose of twenty of Shakespeare’s thirty-seven plays was originally published just for children. Keeping Shakespeare’s own words whenever possible but making the plots and language easily understandable, this very listenable collection has entertained and informed generations of adults as well. With such classic stories as A... Read more

Macbeth

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Anthony Quayle

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Anthony Quayle, Robert Hardy, Ian Holm, Stanley Holloway and Jill Balcon in an unabridged performance of Shakespeare's Macbeth Read more

Othello

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Cyril Cussack

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Cyril Cussack, Frank Silvera and Celia Johnson star in the unabridged performance of Shakespeare's Othello Read more

One Man In His Time

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: John Gielgud

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The second part of the award winning stage perfomance of Shakespeare's greatest work by Sir John Gielgud. Read more

Richard II

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: John Gielgud

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir John Gielgud, Sir Michael Hordern, Leon McKern and Edward Harwicke star in this unabridged performance of Shakespeare's Richard II Read more

Hamlet - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: John Gielgud

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Widely regarded as the definitive performance of Hamlet starring Sir John Gielgud and Pamela Brown Read more

Tales from Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet - Abridged

By: Mary Lamb & Charles Lamb

Narrated by: Emma Topping

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brother and sister team Charles and Mary Lamb originally wrote these stories for children in 1807, based on Shakespeare's most famous plays. Here is their version of Romeo and Juliet. Read more

Mimi's Guide

By: Doris Baizley

Narrated by: Powers Boothe, Frances Conroy & Ping Wu

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The sensuality of Louisiana's humid, jasmine-scented air permeates this love triangle about three people who are haunted by the memories of the Vietnam war.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Powers Boothe and Frances Conroy, Ping Wu. Read more

The Value of Names

By: Jeffrey Sweet

Narrated by: Hector Elizondo, Garry Marshall & Sally Murphy

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Benny Silverman, a retired, successful actor, seems to have surmounted the bitter time in his life when Leo Greshen, a good friend and colleague “named” him in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Benny’s flourishing career was nearly destroyed, and his comeback was slow and painful. The two men haven’t spoken since. But they... Read more

Of One Blood

By: Andrew White

Narrated by: Lee Arenberg, John Cothran Jr., Judyann Elder, ...

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Of One Blood is a poignant and disturbing play about the infamous murder of three civil rights workers - James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner – in Mississippi in 1964. The broadcast includes an interview with Rita Bender, Michael Schwerner's wife in 1964.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance starring David Schwimmer... Read more

Never the Sinner

By: John Logan

Narrated by: Thomas Carroll, David Darlow, William Larson, R...

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Two boys commit a murder – not for gain, or out of passion – just to do it, just to experience the thrill. Based on the infamous 1924 trial of Leopold and Loeb, Never the Sinner is their story, and the story of one of the most famous American lawyers and civil libertarians, Clarence Darrow. In the case of a lifetime, Darrow is called in to... Read more

The Lost World

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Josh Clark, Kyle Colerider-Krugh, Peter Paige, ...

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur Conan Doyle’s rollicking adventure tale follows a scientific expedition deep into the Amazon jungle – right back into the time of dinosaurs and cave men. Before Jurassic Park, before Indiana Jones - there was The Lost World!

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Josh Clark, Kyle Colerider-Krugh, Peter Paige, Kirsten... Read more

Just Between Ourselves

By: Alan Ayckbourn

Narrated by: Gia Carides, Kenneth Danziger, Judy Geeson, Mir...

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The first of Ayckbourn’s darkly comic masterpieces involves a relentlessly cheerful handyman in a disastrously fractured marriage. Two couples develop an unlikely friendship in this painfully funny portrait of British suburban life.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
Gia Carides as Pam
Kenneth Danziger as Dennis
Judy Geeson as... Read more

Each Day Dies With Sleep

By: Jose Rivera

Narrated by: Laura Ceron, Noe Cuellar & Frankie Davila

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by José Rivera, recent Academy Award Nominee for The Motorcycles Diaries, Each Day Dies with Sleep is the story of a young woman’s struggle to find an identity apart from the two men in her life – her father and her husband. Written in Rivera’s typical satiric and super realistic style, this fantastical tragic-comedy leaps from coast to... Read more

Bus Stop

By: William Inge

Narrated by: Megan Anderson, Terrence Currier, Rachel Miner,...

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Upon hitting Broadway in 1955 Bus Stop was an immediate commercial & critical success. During a winter storm a busload of weary travelers are forced to shack up at a roadside diner until morning. Inge was renowned for his in-depth character studies, Bus Stop is no exception and offers a warm play about the intersecting lives of eight... Read more

Buk: The Life & Times of Charles Bukowski

By: Paul Peditto

Narrated by: Henry Brown, John Diehl, Arye Gross, Emily Heeb...

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An often heartbreaking, often humorous look at the life of a great American poet, Buk: The Life & Times of Charles Bukowski explores and recreates the tragic but ultimately transcendent experiences of one of the most important literary luminaries of our time.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Henry Brown, John Diehl, Arye... Read more

Atomic Bombers

By: Russell Vandenbroucke

Narrated by: Larry Cox, Jeannie Elias, Robin Gammell, Jon Ma...

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1943, something strange is going on in the New Mexican desert. By night, the starkly beautiful canyons of Los Alamos fill with the sound of exploding graphite – and by day, the crackle of scientific brainpower. Fifty years after Hiroshima, Atomic Bombers takes us into those secretive canyons to meet the cadre of brilliant scientists who... Read more

Doctor Who At The BBC: A Legend Reborn

By: BBC

Narrated by: Elisabeth Sladen & Various

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2005, after sixteen years off-air, Doctor Who returned to BBC Television – and soon became more popular than ever before. In this special anthology of clips and interviews, featuring newly-released material, Elisabeth Sladen journeys back to the recent past to delve into the show’s dazzling success. With the help of extracts from radio... Read more

The Waldorf Conference

By: Nat Segaloff, Daniel M. Kimmel & Arnie Reisman

Narrated by: Edward Asner, Shelley Berman, Charles Durning, ...

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

On November 24, 1947, the most powerful men in American film met in New York’s plush Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to decide how to address the Communist witch-hunt being carried out by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Twenty-four hours later they emerged having created the Hollywood Blacklist. The Waldorf Conference dramatically speculates... Read more

Showbiz

By: John Logan

Narrated by: John Berczeller, Holly Cardone, Kyle Colerider-...

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Showbiz is John Logan’s harrowing tale of life and death in the theatre. It tells the story of the brilliant young director Julian, whose single minded determination drives those around him to personal and artistic extremes.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring John Berczeller, Holly Cardone, Kyle Colerider-Krugh, Molly Hagan,... Read more

Molly Sweeney

By: Brian Friel

Narrated by: Frances Fisher, Jeanie Hackett, Shannon Holt, A...

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Molly Sweeney, by the great Irish playwright Brian Friel, tells the story of married couple Molly and Frank, who live in a remote Irish village. Molly has been blind since birth, but now a surgeon – Mr. Rice – believes he may be able to restore her sight. In a series of interwoven monologues, Molly Sweeney takes us into the minds of three people... Read more

Ballad of Yachiyo

By: Philip Kan Gotanda

Narrated by: June Angela, Takayo Fischer, Dian Kobayashi, La...

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The Ballad of Yachiyo is a tale of illicit passion by Guggenheim-winning playwright Philip Kan Gotanda, set in 1919 among the lush cane fields of Hawaii. Inspired by true events in the playwright’s family, The Ballad of Yachiyo follows 16-year-old Yachiyo as she reluctantly leaves her impoverished parents to live with sophisticated relatives.... Read more

Born Guilty

By: Ari Roth

Narrated by: Lawrence Grimm, Cammy Kelly, Sam Munoz, Jeremy ...

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on Peter Sichrovsky’s book of the same name, Born Guilty is a moving and elegiac play about one man's journey into the hearts of children raised by Nazi parents. As Peter, a Jewish journalist, digs into the past, he faces psychological barriers that threaten to bury the truth forever.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring... Read more