Performance audiobooks
Additional Dialogue: An Evening With Dalton Trumbo
By: Christopher Trumbo
Narrated by: Jeff Corey, Harry Groener, Christopher Trumbo &...
Length: 1 hour 25 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1947, witty, outspoken, irascible Dalton Trumbo - the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Roman Holiday and Spartacus - went to prison for defying the House Committee on Un-American Activities and became one of the framed Hollywood Ten. Through his wildly funny and thought-provoking correspondence, Trumbo’s son has created a touching... Read more
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Zoot Suit
By: Luis Valdez
Narrated by: Xochiquetzal Candelaria, Raul Cardona, Daniel C...
Length: 1 hour 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Chicano playwright Luis Valdez masterfully uses the Sleepy Lagoon murder case to examine the Chicano Zoot Suit Culture of the 40’s. Passionate and provocative, Zoot Suit pulses with the beat of Big Band Music and traditional Latin songs.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Xochiquetzal Candelaria, Raul Cardona, Daniel Chacon, ... Read more
A Woman of No Importance
By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: Rosalind Ayres, Jane Carr, Peter Dennis, Judy G...
Length: 1 hour 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Devilishly attractive Lord Illingworth is notorious for his skill as a seducer. But he is still invited to all the “best” houses while his female conquests must hide their shame in seclusion. In this devastating comedy, Wilde uses his celebrated wit to expose English society’s narrow view of everything from sexual mores to Americans.
Includes an... Read more
True West
By: Sam Shepard
Narrated by: Dean Cameron, Alfred Molina, Charlotte Rae & Fr...
Length: 1 hour 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Pulitzer-Prize winner Sam Shepard’s classic comedy is a story of estranged brothers Austin and Lee. Shepard compares and contrasts the reality of the two brothers by forcing them to come to terms with each other, with themselves, and with family.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Dean Cameron, Alfred Molina, Charlotte Rae and... Read more
Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight
By: Peter Ackerman
Narrated by: Jeffrey Donovan, Richard Kind, Mandy Siegfried,...
Length: 1 hour 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A brand spanking new bedroom farce about three couples who say what they oughtn’t, do what they shouldn’t, and deliver terrific one-liners while doing it!
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Jeffrey Donovan, Richard Kind, Mandy Siegfried, Alan Mandell, Clea Lewis and Joey Slotnick. Read more
Thank You, Jeeves
By: P.G. Wodehouse & Mark Richard
Narrated by: Gregory Cooke, Kenneth Danziger, Alastair Dunca...
Length: 1 hour 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A delightful British comedy from the wonderful world of P.G. Wodehouse! The perpetually misguided Bertie finds himself embroiled in a madcap adventure sparked by the abrupt departure of his beloved Jeeves. Adapted by Mark Richard. Recorded before a live audience at the DoubleTree Guest Suites, Santa Monica in April 1998. Director: Rosalind... Read more
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Proof
By: David Auburn
Narrated by: Robert Foxworth, Anne Heche, Kaitlin Hopkins & ...
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
An enigmatic young woman. A manipulative sister. Their brilliant father. An unexpected suitor. One life-altering question. The search for the truth behind a mysterious mathematical proof is the perplexing problem in David Auburn's dynamic play. Starring Anne Heche and Jeremy Sisto, Proof is a winner of the 2001 Tony award for Best Play as well... Read more
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Plaza Suite
By: Neil Simon
Narrated by: Edward Asner, Michelle Costa, Richard Dreyfuss,...
Length: 1 hour 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Neil Simon’s hilarious comedy follows three brief encounters in the same suite at the famed Plaza Hotel in New York City. A BBC co-production
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Edward Asner, Michelle Costa, Richard Dreyfuss, Hector Elizondo, Amy Irving, Marsha Mason, Alfred Molina, Kerry Shale, Joe Spano and JoBeth Williams. Read more
Jump At the Sun
By: Kathleen McGhee-Anderson
Narrated by: David Downing, Cyndi James Gossett, Tommy Hicks...
Length: 1 hour 33 minutes
Abridged: No
As the twenties roared and the Harlem renaissance thrived, a young woman from rural Florida became the toast of literary New York. Jump at the Sun chronicles the passionate life of Zora Neale Hurston (author of “Their Eyes Are Watching God”) who went from spinning tales on the front porch of a country store, to writing prize-winning stories,... Read more
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God's Man in Texas
By: David Rambo
Narrated by: Robert Pescovitz, W. Morgan Sheppard & Andy Taylor
Length: 1 hour 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Charismatic pastor Jerry Mears auditions for the top job at the biggest Baptist church in the nation. But when the church's aging leader clings to his own dynasty - and his coveted 10 a.m. television broadcast - the stage is set for a powerful clash of wit and wills. A divine study of religion as big business.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast... Read more
A Fair Country
By: Jon Robin Baitz
Narrated by: Maddie Corman, Kurt Deutsch, David Dukes, Georg...
Length: 1 hour 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A well-meaning American diplomat in South Africa tries to pacify his ferociously combative wife and anti-apartheid activist son by being reassigned to The Hague. But peace is hard to come by and, at an elegant New Year's Eve party, a harrowing betrayal is revealed. Judith Ivey recreates her acclaimed performance from the Lincoln Center... Read more
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The Cherry Orchard
By: Anton Chekhov
Narrated by: Jordan Baker, Jon Chardiet, Michael Cristofer, ...
Length: 1 hour 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Chekhov’s masterful last play, The Cherry Orchard, is a work of timeless, bittersweet beauty about the fading fortunes of an aristocratic Russian family and their struggle to maintain their status in a changing world. Alternately touching and farcical, this subtle, intelligent play stars the incomparable Marsha Mason.
An L.A. Theatre Works... Read more
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
By: Herman Wouk
Narrated by: James Avery, Chuma Hunter-Gault, Ian Lithgow, S...
Length: 1 hour 55 minutes
Abridged: No
This acclaimed WWII psychological courtroom drama was the sensation of 1954. The play portrays a mutiny of naval officers aboard the U.S.S. Caine. Their suspicions concerning their captain’s sanity lead to their rebellion and a subsequent court - martial.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring James Avery, Chuma Hunter-Gault, Ian... Read more
Black Water : An American Opera
By: John Duffy
Narrated by: David Lee Brewer, Reid Bruton, Stephanie Buckle...
Length: 1 hour 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Based on National Book Award-winner Joyce Carol Oates’ novella about the Chappaquiddick scandal, this tragic and beautiful new opera enthralls as a handsome Senator uses power to enchant, seduce and carelessly destroy.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring David Lee Brewer, Reid Bruton, Stephanie Buckley, Karen Burlingame,... Read more
Bang the Drum Slowly
By: Mark Harris
Narrated by: Ed Begley Jr., John Freeland Jr., Henry Harris,...
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A new dramatization of one of the greatest baseball stories of all time. A poignant, touching, and often comic tale of a baseball team’s friendship and loyalty to a dying teammate. Adapted from the novel by Mark Harris.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Ed Begley Jr., John Freeland Jr., Henry Harris, Brent Hinkley, Bruce... Read more
Atwater: Fixin’ To Die
By: Robert Myers
Narrated by: Gregory Itzin
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Gregory Itzin portrays the brilliant but flawed Lee Atwater, a self-styled master of negative campaigning and a tightly wound country boy from South Carolina, who rose to the chairmanship of the Republican Party.
An L.A. Theatre Works performance featuring Gregory Itzin. Read more
Aliens in America
By: Sandra Tsing Loh
Narrated by: Sandra Tsing Loh
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Contemporary satirist Sandra Tsing Loh spins a darkly comic, autobiographical tale of growing up middle class Chinese-German in Southern California. This witty monologue is for sons and daughters everywhere who feel that their parents must have been beamed to earth from another planet.
An L.A. Theatre Works solo performance featuring Sandra Tsing... Read more
Pygmalion
By: George Bernard Shaw
Narrated by: Roslyn Alexander, Shannon Cochran, Denise du Ma...
Length: 1 hour 37 minutes
Abridged: No
One of Shaw’s most enduring works, Pygmalion is an insightful comedy of class relations and perceptions, as played out between a Cockney flower girl and the irascible speech professor who has taken her on as a pet project. Described by critics as “a play of great vitality and charm,” Pygmalion inspired the award-winning stage and film... Read more
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Six Degrees of Separation
By: John Guare
Narrated by: Alan Alda, Pam Blair, Gabrielle Carteris, Gabri...
Length: 1 hour 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In a Fifth Avenue apartment high above Central Park, art dealer Flanders Kittredge and his wife Ouisa are trying to interest a moneyed friend in a $2 million investment. When an unexpected young guest arrives, claiming to be the son of Sidney Poitier, the plot takes some wonderfully unexpected turns. Veering effortlessly from hilarity to pathos,... Read more
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Blithe Spirit
By: Noel Coward
Narrated by: Rosalind Ayres, Alexandra Boyd, Judy Geeson, Sh...
Length: 1 hour 44 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic comedy is set in the charming country home of Charles Condomine, a re-married widower. A witty and convivial evening party among friends is transformed when a séance conjures the ghost of Elvira, Charles’ first wife, who delights in wreaking havoc among the living. An enchanting Coward comedy!
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast... Read more
My Favorite Husband
By: Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll Jr.
Narrated by: Samantha Bennett, Jeff Conaway, Harold Gould, M...
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Before Lucy and Desi became America’s favorite television couple, Lucille Ball developed her show-business-aspiring housewife character from 1948-1951 on CBS Radio. Some of TV’s most popular sitcom stars reprise two episodes from the radio series that inspired I Love Lucy.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Samantha Bennett,... Read more
Mizlansky/Zilinsky
By: Jon Robin Baitz
Narrated by: Nathan Lane, Paul Sand, Grant Shaud, Rob Morrow...
Length: 1 hour 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Italian shoes, a house in the hills, a gift for stretching the truth, and a petulant assistant to pick the scallions out of his Szechuan noodles – Hollywood producer Davis Mizlansky has it all. But he’s about to lose it to the IRS unless he can pull off one more deal. A stellar cast performs this hilarious send-up of modern-day Hollywood.
An L.A.... Read more
Anna Christie
By: Eugene O'Neill
Narrated by: Stacy Keach, Alison Elliott, Alley Mills, Dwier...
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes
Abridged: No
The passion of a coal barge captain’s daughter and a rough-hewn sailor takes a tumultuous turn when her secret past is revealed. Nobel laureate Eugene O’Neill won the second of his four Pulitzer Prizes for this heroic classic.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance starring:
Stacy Keach as Chris Christopherson
Alison Elliot as Anna... Read more
Camping With Henry & Tom
By: Mark St. Germain
Narrated by: Alan Alda, Lee Arenberg, David Dukes & Charles ...
Length: 1 hour 25 minutes
Abridged: No
President Harding wants to be with his mistress. Industrialist Henry Ford wants to be President. And inventor Thomas Edison wonders how the three of them got stuck in the woods together. Inspired by an actual camping trip taken by the three men in 1921, this Off - Broadway hit is a hilarious adventure with surprising relevance to today’s... Read more
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