Performance audiobooks

Three Plays

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Published together for the first time are three of Ayn Rand’s compelling stage plays. The courtroom drama Night of January 16th, a 1935 Broadway success famous for leaving the verdict to the audience, is presented here in its definitive, final revised text—a superb dramatization of Rand’s vision of human strengths and weaknesses. Also included... Read more

The Country Girl

By: Clifford Odets

Narrated by: Spencer Garrett, Harry Hamlin, Jamie Hanes, Sta...

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

One of America's great dramatists rocked the worlds of Broadway and Hollywood in this moving drama about a desperately self-destructive alcoholic actor and Georgie, his long-suffering wife. A searing, emotional play of love and redemption.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance starring:
Harry Hamlin as Bernie Dodd
Stacy Keach as Frank... Read more

The Key / Tone Clusters

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Edward Asner, Hector Elizondo, Don Reed, Joyce ...

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Two one-act plays by Joyce Carol Oates.

The Key: a hilarious perverse encounter between a vacationing suburban housewife, recently separated from her husband, and a prosperous businessman.

Tone Cluster: a chilling trig-comedy that takes the form of an interview between a middle-aged, middle-class American couple and the media.

Full-cast L.A.... Read more

Abundance

By: Beth Henley

Narrated by: Ed Begley Jr., Gary Cole, Amy Madigan, Steven W...

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Crimes of the Heart comes this poignant but unromanticized story of the hard lives of pioneers on the high plains of Wyoming in the 1860's. Macon and Bess are two mail-order brides, lured to the West by the promise of new beginnings through marriage to men they’ve never met. While waiting for their... Read more

American Appetites

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Lisa Akey, Keith Carradine, Alastair Duncan, Pa...

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

L.A. Theatre Works presents the exclusive dramatization of Joyce Carol Oates’ best-selling novel. In American Appetites, the façade of an affluent suburban couple crumbles under the weight of tragedy and scandal. When Ian McCullough accidentally pushes his wife through a plate glass window during an argument, the American dream turns into a... Read more

Gulf War/Black

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Edward Asner, Stephanie Dunnam, Rif Hutton, Nan...

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Two one-act plays by Joyce Carol Oates.

Gulf War: An affluent young couple entertains an older couple for an evening of cocktails and politics during the Gulf War. But as the evening continues, the conversation take a bizarre and absurd tone.

Black: In this evening of cocktails and dinner, a couple anxiously awaits the arrival of an ex-husband. As... Read more

Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: John Gielgud & Ralph Richardson

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s elementary that any Conan Doyle fan will want this splendid set of Sherlock Holmes mysteries—twelve timeless classics performed as radio theater, linked by violin music interludes.

The great Sir John Gielgud stars as the sleuth of Baker Street, with Ralph Richardson as his venerable companion, Dr. Watson, and Orson Welles as the nefarious... Read more

Torchwood The Sin Eaters

By: Brian Minchin

Narrated by: Gareth David-Lloyd

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Searching for the source of a bizarre Rift reading, Gwen, Jack and Ianto find a corpse on the beach, his face covered in hundreds of tiny cuts. Watching from the shadows is a man in black... The Reverend Hayward thinks he has found a way to take away people’s sins. The trouble is his special baptisms tend to take away their lives, too, for the... Read more

Table Manners

By: Alan Ayckbourn

Narrated by: Rosalind Ayres, Kenneth Danziger, Martin Jarvis...

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

England’s famous seducer of other men’s wives lays siege to his sister-in-law in the first “battle” of Ayckbourn’s celebrated trilogy The Norman Conquests. In Table Manners, the action occurs in the dining room of Mother’s house, where a conventional middle-class family is attempting to have a pleasant country weekend. But they are no match for... Read more

Round and Round the Garden

By: Alan Ayckbourn

Narrated by: Rosalind Ayres, Kenneth Danziger, Martin Jarvis...

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The third “battle” of Ayckbourn’s celebrated trilogy The Norman Conquests, returns us to the same weekend in the country, but this time to the setting of Mother’s overgrown English country garden. Something more troublesome than brambles is lurking among the roses. Havoc ensues among the flora and fauna, as this cynical masterpiece makes its way... Read more

Middle of the Night

By: Paddy Chayefsky

Narrated by: Annie Abbott, Elliott Gould, Christina Haag, An...

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

One of America’s best-loved writers, Paddy Chayefsky - an Academy Awards winner for his manuscripts of Marty, The Hospital and Network - created this lovely, wistful play about an unlikely romance. An unforgettable story of true love about an older widower who falls in love with his young secretary.

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

Living Together

By: Alan Ayckbourn

Narrated by: Rosalind Ayres, Ken Danziger, Martin Jarvis, Ja...

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In the second “battle” of Ayckbourn’s celebrated triology The Norman Conquests, we rejoin the family weekend, this time hearing the events in the living room, where Norman gets drunk on homemade dandelion wine – and all hell breaks loose. Norman unleashes his merry brand of manipulative charm on the hapless guests and even his most formidable... Read more

The Real Thing

By: Tom Stoppard

Narrated by: Matthew Gaydos, Andrea Bowen, Carolyn Seymour, ...

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry may be the wittiest playwright of his generation, but he’s hopelessly naïve when it comes to understanding love and infidelity. Writing about betrayal is one thing, living with it is another. After Henry leaves his wife for another woman, he’s confronted with being the cuckold himself. Both dazzlingly clever and emotionally naked, Henry’s... Read more

Arcadia

By: Tom Stoppard

Narrated by: Kate Burton, Mark Capri, Jennifer Dundas, Grego...

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Stoppard's Arcadia merges science with human concerns and ideals, examining the universe's influence in our everyday lives and ultimate fates through relationship between past and present, order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge. Set in an English country house in the years 1809-1812 and 1989, the play examines the lives of two... Read more

Just William's Luck

By: Richmal Crompton

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In this full-length Just William novel, William and the Outlaws decide to form the Knights of the Square Table, 'rightin' wrongs' for a minor fee ('Small wrongs: sixpence. Big wrongs: one shillin'.) In their quest to earn enough money to become tramps, they stop at no amount of do-gooding, embarking on a plan to marry off their older brothers.... Read more

Lucy

By: Damien Atkins

Narrated by: Lucy DeVito, Roxanne Hart, Geoffrey Lower, Sara...

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In a thought-provoking new play, 13 year old Lucy, who suffers from autism, moves in with her estranged, misanthropic mother. Having lived her entire life with her father, Lucy, as well as her mom, struggle with all the difficulties of such an arrangement. “ A complicated and thoughtful piece” says NYtheatre.com

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

The Autumn Garden

By: Lillian Hellman

Narrated by: David Clennon, Julie Harris, Roxanne Hart, Glen...

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A Chekhovian comedy from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lillian Hellman about the sad and funny frailties of human existence. As the summer of 1949 draws to a close, a group of middle-aged friends are gathering for their annual retreat at a genteel Southern resort. An acquaintance from the past thrusts himself into the yearly gathering,... Read more

The Norman Conquests

By: Alan Ayckbourn

Narrated by: Rosalind Ayres, Kenneth Danziger, Martin Jarvis...

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Ayckbourn’s celebrated trilogy The Norman Conquests - three hilarious and poignant plays depicting the same six characters in one house over one weekend, namely Norman and his romantic follies.

Table Manners:
England’s famous seducer of other men’s wives lays siege to his sister-in-law in the first “battle”. A middle-class family trying to have a... Read more

La Bete

By: David Hirson

Narrated by: Michael Cumpsty, Jen Dede, Alice Hirson, John d...

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In a comic whirlwind of high style, La Bête tells the story of Elomire, a 17th century French playwright, and his touring acting troupe who have come to lead the high life due to the patronage of the fickle Prince of Conti. Sparks fly when Valere, a swaggering braggert with delusions of artistic grandeur, becomes the Prince's choice to join... Read more

Road Dogs

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“Road Dogs is terrific, and Elmore Leonard is in a class of one.”
—Dennis Lehane, author of Shutter Island and Mystic River “You know from the first sentence that you’re in the hands of the original Daddy Cool....This one’ll kill you.”
—Stephen King Elmore Leonard is eternal. In Road Dogs, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award winner and... Read more

Censorship

By: Brian Jennings

Narrated by: Jesse Boggs

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Freedom of speech. It is our most cherished privilege as Americans, guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution since 1791.

But our current presidential administration threatens to sharply curtail or silence altogether the freedom of expression that distinguishes America from the average dictatorship. What is under direct attack?... Read more

The Maltese Falcon (BBC Radio Crimes)

By: BBC Audio

Narrated by: Full Cast, Jane Lapotaire, Nickolas Grace, Pete...

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s San Francisco, 1928, and Sam Spade is a wisecracking, womanising Private Investigator. Missing husbands and unfaithful wives are his usual stock-in-trade, but when the beautifully distressed Miss Wonderley calls he gets involved in a dangerous caper most people would run a mile from. Miss Wonderley asks Sam’s partner, Miles Archer, to... Read more

Dick Barton - Special Agent! (BBC Radio Crimes)

By: Edward J. Mason

Narrated by: Full Cast & Noël Johnson

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain Richard Barton, late of the Commandos, made his radio debut on the Light Programme in 1946 and quickly went on to become Britain's most popular hero. For years the nation tuned in to hear the famous signature tune, Devil's Gallop, herald another cliff-hanging adventure for the smooth, crime-busting Barton and his friends Snowey and Jock.... Read more

John Arlott's Cricketing Wides, Byes And Slips!

By: Various

Narrated by: John Arlott & Peter Baxter

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The imagery and wit of an incomparable broadcaster is captured here in a unique collection of historic, and humorous, moments from the twentieth century. From the 1940s we hear about Bradman’s last test, from the 50s Compton’s highest Test Score, from the 60s Trueman’s 300th Test wicket and Boycott’s first ton, and then the 70s with Arlott’s... Read more