Performance audiobooks

Unquestioned Integrity: The Hill/Thomas Hearing

By: Mame Hunt

Narrated by: Edward Asner, Ella Joyce & Paul Winfield

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Adapted directly from the actual transcripts, Unquestioned Integrity examines the notorious Senate Confirmation hearings when law professor Anita Hill charged Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas with sexual harassment.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Edward Asner, Ella Joyce and Paul Winfield. Read more

Drowning Sorrows

By: Douglas Post

Narrated by: Keli Garrett, Harry Hamlin, Martha Lavey, Andre...

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman stumbles into a remote bar on the Carribean island of St. John - and faints. It isn’t the tropical drinks that befell Emily Miles, but the sight of the bartender, Duncan Crawford. In the restless Duncan, Emily is sure she recognizes the young man she has been searching for since he left her at the altar, twenty years ago.

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Spread Eagle

By: George S. Brooks & Walter Lister

Narrated by: Edward Asner, Kate Asner, Raye Birk, Sharon Gle...

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Commerce and heroism clash when a titan of American businessmen orchestrates a U.S. invasion of Mexico. This long-lost 1927 Broadway melodrama combines the crackling dialogue and riveting storytelling of the Front Page with Wag the Dog cynicism.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Edward Asner, Kate Asner, Raye Birk, Sharon... Read more

Steambath

By: Bruce Jay Friedman

Narrated by: Jason Alexander, Edward Asner, Gerrit Graham, M...

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A parade of unforgettable characters emerge from the steam in this hilarious, supernatural bathhouse. There is Tandy, fresh from teaching art appreciation at the Police Academy; Meredith, whose last memory is buying a micro-miniskirt; Biberman, a karate silver-belt who masquerades as a paraplegic; and the mysterious Puerto Rican janitor given to... Read more

Forty-Two Stories

By: Douglas Post

Narrated by: Fran Adams, Ed Begley Jr., Samantha Bennett, Da...

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Forty-Two Stories is a comedy about life in a high-rise condominium. A professional student from the University of Chicago is moonlighting as janitor. A stressed-out apartment manager is at odds with the residents and on the edge of a nervous breakdown. And a motley assortment of other staff members struggles with survival in the face of urban... Read more

The Baby Dance

By: Jane Anderson

Narrated by: David Ellenstein, Valerie Landsburg, Bruce McIn...

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A desperate L.A. professional couple, unable to have children, arrange to buy the unborn baby of a dirt-poor Louisiana pair. Emotions run high and relationships hang by a thread in this passionate and heartbreaking Off-Broadway drama by Mad Man writer Jane Anderson. “It is a play that audiences will take home with them; it might provoke... Read more

Cabin Pressure: The Complete Series 2

By: John Finnemore

Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch, Full Cast, John Finnemore...

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and a prayer world of a tiny, one-plane charter airline; staffed by two pilots, one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. Whether flying a nervous bassoonist to Gdansk or a horrible sister to Helsinki, no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult.

Carolyn Knapp-Shappey, MJN... Read more

The Importance of Being Earnest

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Emily Bergl, Charles Busch, Neil Dickson, Jill ...

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

This final play from the pen of Oscar Wilde is a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a lost handbag. Jack and Algernon are best friends, both wooing ladies who think their names are Ernest, “that name which inspires absolute confidence.” Wilde’s effervescent wit, scathing social... Read more

Hotel Oubliette

By: Jane Anderson

Narrated by: Edward Asner, Thomas Caruso, Arye Gross & Marsh...

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the released American hostages, Hotel Oubliette is a darkly comedic play that explores what happens when two emotionally disconnected men are chained to a post with an endless amount of time stretching before them.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Edward Asner, Thomas Caruso, Arye Gross and Marsha Mason. Read more

Monticello

By: Glenn Paxton

Narrated by: Shana Blake Hill, Annette Daniels, Cynthia Jans...

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A timely and hauntingly beautiful new opera with libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winner Leroy Aarons and score by accomplished composer Glenn Paxton. Scandal erupts in the White House - and in the national press - when Thomas Jefferson's longtime love affair with his slave mistress Sally Hemings is revealed.

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

Halcyon Days

By: Steven Dietz

Narrated by: Anne Archer, Ed Begley Jr., Samantha Bennett, L...

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Senator Eddie Bowman cannot see the point of invading a miniscule Caribbean island to rescue a bunch of overly tanned medical students. But as the 1983 invasion of Grenada gets underway, the Senator finds himself at odds with a mysterious foreign-policy specialist who cultivates roses, the Presidents's sexy new speechwriter-and his own son.

An... Read more

This Town

By: Sidney Blumenthal

Narrated by: Gerrit Graham, Richard Kind, Jane Lanier, David...

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This Town, by renowned author, New Yorker political analyst and White House presidential advisor Sidney Blumenthal, is a hilarious political satire. The play takes us inside the well-groomed Washington Press Corps, who yawn when they hear about peace treaties but snap to attention at the chance to uncover a little dirt about the First Dog

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Mastergate

By: Larry Gelbart

Narrated by: Edward Asner, Melanie Chartoff, Jack Coleman, E...

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The Tony Award-winning playwright and creator of TV's MASH has fashioned a wickedly funny satire about the Iran-Contra Senate hearings and their participants. A top-notch Hollywood cast, headed by Edward Asner and Walter Matthau, brings this scathing comedy to life.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Edward Asner, Melanie... Read more

Orphans

By: Lyle Kessler

Narrated by: Kevin Anderson, Terry Kinney & John Mahoney

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In a rundown house in Philadelphia live two orphan brothers: the reclusive, frightened Philip and the violent pickpocket thief, Treat. Into this savage and ferociously funny world enters Harold, a shadowy underworld figure of power and influence who irrevocably changes the precious balance between the two brothers. A Steppenwolf Theatre Company... Read more

Art

By: Yasmina Reza

Narrated by: Bob Balaban, Brian Cox & Jeff Perry

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

How much would you pay for a painting with nothing on it? Would it be “art”? Marc’s best friend Serge has just bought a very expensive – and very white – painting. To Marc, it is a joke, and as battle lines are drawn, old friends use the painting to settle scores. With friendships hanging in the balance, the question becomes: how much is a work... Read more

Car Talk: Tales of the Brothers Grime

By: Tom Magliozzi & Ray Magliozzi

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The Brothers Grimm told tales that in their original, unedited form were strange, sometimes rambling, and of dubious moral integrity—in other words, they’re the perfect model for our Brothers Grime, the Tappet Brothers. America’s favorite auto mechanics share reminiscences, rants, and hate mail in another time-wasting yet genuinely useful... Read more

The Rape of Lucrece

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Gerard Logan

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Rape of Lucrece is a brilliant, brutal narrative poem giving an account of the terrible crime of rape and its dreadful consequences for victim and perpetrator. As ever, though, Shakespeare goes beyond the obvious, following the ramifications of the crime wherever they take him, shining a light on a band of human-behaviour encompassing the... Read more

3rd & Bird

By: Josh Selig

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Five episodes from the hugely popular animated series featuring Samuel, Rudy and Muffin – as seen on BBC TV. ‘A Chorus for Us’, ‘Rolling Along’, ‘To Play or Not to Play’, ‘The Muffin Express’ and ‘Samuel’s Dance’. Read more

It’s Not What You Think - Abridged

By: Chris Evans

Narrated by: Chris Evans

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The story of how one council estate lad made good, really very good, and survived – just about – to tell the tale… Chris Evans’s extraordinary career has seen him become one of the country’s most successful broadcasters and producers. From The Big Breakfast to Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush and TFI Friday, Chris changed the TV... Read more

The School for Wives

By: Molière

Narrated by: William Brown, Wellesley Chapman, Joe Damour, K...

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In this biting comedy of errors, the hapless Arnolphe is undone by his own double dealing and double standards. The School for Wives was first performed at the Palais Royal theatre on December 26, 1662, and is considered by many to be Moliere’s masterpiece. Richard Wilbur's subtle verse translation illuminates the great master of comedy at his... Read more

Odyssey of Love

By: Lucy Parham

Narrated by: Rosalind Ayres, Martin Jarvis & Lucy Parham

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout his life, Franz Liszt burned the candle at both ends. A child prodigy who became the greatest keyboard virtuoso of his time, he was also a prolific composer, whose output ranged from hundreds of piano pieces to symphonies, tone poems, and songs. Pianist Lucy Parham compiled Liszt’s colorful letters and performs some of his most... Read more

Death and the Maiden

By: Ariel Dorfman

Narrated by: John Kapelos, John Mahoney, Carolyn Seymour & K...

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"Generally, it's the tortured who turn into torturers."
Carl Gustav Jung

Suspense mounts when Paulina and her husband offer hospitality to a stranger. Paulina thinks she recognizes, in their guest, the man who tortured her in prison, and she subsequently takes him hostage to find out the truth. A stunningly blunt and compelling play, Death and the... Read more

This Is Our Youth

By: Kenneth Lonergan

Narrated by: Josh Hamilton, Mark Ruffalo & Missy Yager

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Starring Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hamilton and Missy Yager, the original cast was reunited for this exclusive L.A. Theatre Works performance of This is Our Youth. In 1982, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, three pot-smoking teenagers are resoundingly rejecting the 1960’s ideals of their affluent parents. In hilarious and bittersweet detail, This is Our... Read more

Betrayed

By: George Packer

Narrated by: Jeremy Beck, Kevin Daniels, Andrea Gabriel, Joh...

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on the journalist-playwright’s original article in The New Yorker, Betrayed is the story of three young Iraqi translators who risk everything for America's promise of freedom while their country collapses around them. “The clarity of the writing, the urgency of the story being told … give the play a sharp dramatic impact and a... Read more