Performance audiobooks

Life These Days

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award for Best Short Stories Wherever Garrison Keillor's imagination takes him, the road back to Lake Wobegon is always a delightful one. His story collections about "the little town that time forgot" are his most popular; this Lake Wobegon collection features 11 wonderful stories recorded from live radio... Read more

Garrison Keillor Comedy Gift Pack

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Prairie Home Comedy and Garrison Keillor's Comedy Theater in one fun-filled gift package.


Prairie Home Comedy Contents:
Freelance Writer; American Artistic Association; I Am A Tenor; Carp Trip; Memories of Pain; The Management Assumes No Responsibility; Second Methodist Church; Moodism; Reaching Out; Sex; Washing Your Hands; The In and Out Cat... Read more

Prairie Home Comedy

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirty-four of the best-loved, most-requested songs and sketches from the original radio broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion.

Contents:

Freelance Writer; American Artistic Association; I Am a Tenor; Car Trip; Memories of Pain; The Management Assumes No Responsibility; Second Methodist Church; Moodism; Reaching Out; Sex; Washing Your Hands; The... Read more

News from Lake Wobegon: Spring

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Funny and touching, these monologues from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion focus on the spring season.

Includes: "Me and Choir," "A Day in the Life of Clarence Bunsen," and "Letter from Jim." Read more

The Young Man from Atlanta

By: Horton Foote

Narrated by: Phyllis Applegate, Jamie Hanes, Shirley Knight,...

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1950’s Houston, an affluent couple is transformed by tragedy when their son dies under mysterious circumstances and the husband loses his job of 40 years. Shirley Knight recreates her Tony-nominated performance in this 1995 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Phyllis Applegate, Jamie Hanes,... Read more

Working

By: Stephen Schwartz & Nina Faso

Narrated by: Eileen Barnett, Orson Bean, Harry Groener, Kait...

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The first revised and updated version of this 1970’s cult classic. A rousing musical with a cast of twenty, Working is for anyone who has ever punched a clock, a cow or a supervisor - or wanted to.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Eileen Barnett, Orson Bean, Harry Groener, Kaitlin Hopkins, Michael Kostroff, Kenna Ramsey,... Read more

Mother Father Uncle Aunt

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"...where the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." There's a reason all those children in Lake Wobegon are above average. It might be the clean prairie air. It might be the wholesome wheat that's grown by the Norwegian bachelor farmers. And it just might be their strong, good-looking... Read more

In the Name of Security

By: Peter Goodchild

Narrated by: John de Lancie, William Frankfather, Arthur Han...

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Trial of Alger Hiss, The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, The Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer. At the height of the cold War, American democracy was challenged by the anti-Communist atmosphere of the McCarthy era. In the Name of Security re-opens three famous spy cases that rocked America between 1948 and 1954: Alger Hiss, Julius &... Read more

News from Lake Wobegon: Winter

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Funny and touching, these monologues from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion focus on the winter season.

Includes: "Guys on Ice," "The Christmas Story Re-told," and "Storm Home." Read more

News from Lake Wobegon: Fall

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Funny and touching, these monologues from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion focus on the fall season.

Includes: "Giant Decoys," "Daryl Tollerud's Long Day," and "Thanksgiving." Read more

Golden Age of Radio

By: Isaac Asimov

Narrated by: Groucho Marx

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring eight episodes of seven classic radio programs, this compelling collection of nostalgia will entertain listeners of all eras. Featured in this set are a live quiz show— You Bet Your Life, hosted by comic legend Groucho Marx— a thrilling segment of X-Minus One (“ The C-Chute” ) written by... Read more

Garrison Keillor's Comedy Theater

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

1997 Grammy® Award nominee
1996 Listen Up Award—Best Humor

Enjoy the best of Garrison Keillor's comic fables from A Prairie Home Companion, all about true love and other tribulations, brought to life by a cast of brilliant radio actors.

Contents:
This Man This Woman; Taking a Chance on Love; Bertha's Kitty Boutique: Cat Box Video; Greenwich... Read more

The Family Radio

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A sampler of crowd-pleasers from A Prairie Home Companion: four "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues, "commercials" for Bertha's Kitty Boutique and the Fearmonger's Shoppe, and great music. All selections are from original live radio broadcasts.

Contents:
World Theater, Here We Come!Powdermilk BiscuitsThe Family RadioBertha's Kitty... Read more

News from Lake Wobegon: Summer

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Funny and touching, these monologues from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion focus on the summer season.

Includes: "The Living Flag," "The Tollefson Boy Goes to College," and "Tomato Butt." Read more

Horrors!

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Fear and loathing in Lake Wobegon? You betcha.

Garrison Keillor's Horrors! is a grab bag of treats from Halloween broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion. Horrors! features eclectic musical performances, commercials for loyal Prairie Home "sponsors" like Guy's Shoes, and lighthearted comedy from A Prairie Home Companion's cast of... Read more

Present Laughter

By: Noel Coward

Narrated by: Gregory Cooke, Arthur Hanket, Jon Matthews, Ian...

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A gallery of friends, lovers, relatives and theatre acolytes sparkle around stage star Garry Essendine like bubbles in fine champagne. While Garry struggles to plan his upcoming trip to Africa, his elegant London flat is invaded by a love struck ingénue, an adulterous producer and a married seductress–not to mention Garry’s estranged wife Liz... Read more

A Prairie Home Christmas

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Originally broadcast on Christmas Eve 1994, A Prairie Home Christmas is a delightful compilation of all-time-favorite highlights from past holiday broadcasts of Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.Contents:
Christmas Time's a Comin'; Jordan Carols; Shop for Christmas Presents; Scrooge; Children, Go Where I Send Thee; The Twelve Days of... Read more

A Prairie Home Companion 20th Anniversary

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This retrospective collection of A Prairie Home Companion features complete monologues drawn from 20 years of radio broadcasts Filled with gentle humor, down-home truths, and amazing depths of tenderness and meaning, these tales of "the little town that time forgot and the decades could not improve" are classics of American... Read more

The Young Lutheran's Guide to the Orchestra

By: author

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A special performance combines a popular Garrison Keillor piece with a renowned orchestra. Read more

Bobby Gould in Hell

By: David Mamet

Narrated by: Gus Buktenica, Dale Calandia, Marilou Henner, M...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

David Mamet’s sequel to his classic “Speed the Plow” finds unethical movie producer Bobby Gould trying to talk his way out of eternal damnation. Read more

Julius Caesar

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Lee Arenberg, Bonnie Bedelia, David Birney, Jac...

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Richard Dreyfuss, Kelsey Grammer and Stacy Keach star in one of Shakespeare's most revered tragedies.

The skies over ancient Rome blaze with terrifying portents, and soothsayers warn Julius Caesar of approaching doom. As conspiracy swirls through the city, Shakespeare explores the deep repercussions of political murder on the human heart. A... Read more

Lucifer’s Child - Abridged

By: William Luce

Narrated by: Julie Harris

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The spellbinding Julie Harris takes us on a magic carpet into the beautiful and haunting world of writer Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), romantic author and heroine of Out of Africa. Through her fanciful pact with Lucifer, Dinesen becomes a defiant spirit, an eccentric storytelling sorceress—passionate and wickedly witty.Act I opens on... Read more

Gospel Birds

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Gospel Birds is a collection of nine classic and very funny monologues from the early years of A Prairie Home Companion. In addition to the title story (about Irma and Ernie Lundeen's traveling flock of acrobatic, bible-reciting birds), contents include:

Pastor Ingquist's Trip to OrlandoMammoth Concert Tickets Bruno, the Fishing DogGospel... Read more

Lake Wobegon U.S.A.

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Lake Wobegon U.S.A. is the eagerly anticipated successor to News From Lake Wobegon (one of the bestselling spoken-word audio ever) and More News From Lake Wobegon. This collection contains 17 touching, exquisitely funny monologues from Garrison Keillor recorded during American Radio Company broadcasts from tour stops all over the country. The... Read more