Performance & Radio audiobooks

My Name Is Lucy Barton (Dramatic Production)

By: Elizabeth Strout & Rona Munro
Narrated by: Laura Linney
Length: 1 hour 25 minutes
Abridged: No

Presenting an original audiobook performance of the stage production of My Name is Lucy Barton, starring Academy Award and Tony nominee Laura Linney.

Praised as "deeply affecting" and "heartbreaking" by The Guardian (UK), this is a faithful adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout's bestselling novel of the same name.... Read more »

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

By: Fred Rogers
Narrated by: John Lithgow & Kate Mulgrew
Length: 1 hour 22 minutes
Abridged: No

The New York Times Best Seller 

For the first time ever, 75 beloved songs from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and The Children's Corner are collected in this charming treasury, sure to be cherished by generations of children as well as the millions of adults who grew up with Mister Rogers. The audiobook includes the iconic song Won't You Be My... Read more »

Notes from the Field

By: Anna Deavere Smith & Marcus Shelby
Narrated by: Anna Deavere Smith
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No

Anna Deavere Smith’s extraordinary form of documentary theater shines a light on injustices by portraying the real-life people who have experienced them. In Notes from the Field, she renders a host of figures who have lived and fought the system that pushes students of color out of the classroom and into prisons. (As Smith has put it: “Rich kids... Read more »

King Lear - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Paul Scofield & Full Cast
Length: 3 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: Yes

I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

A Shakespeare Society Production.

The complete play in five acts. Read more »

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Paul Scofield & (Null) Cast
Length: 2 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes

Features a unique cover illustration by Maurice Sendak (Where the WildThings Are), specially commissioned for the Shakespeare on Compact Discseries. An introductory essay by Harvard scholar Harold Bloom accompanies the CD. Read more »

Angels in America

By: Tony Kushner, Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Susan Brown, Denise Gough, Beth Malone, James McArdle, Lee Pace, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Bobby Cannavale & Edie Falco
Narrated by: Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Susan Brown, Denise Gough, Beth Malone, James McArdle, Lee Pace, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Bobby Cannavale & Edie Falco
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No

Presenting an original audiobook performance of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, starring the cast of the National Theatre's 2018 Broadway revival.

In this production, adapted especially for the listening experience, Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, and the entire cast recreate their acclaimed performances from the 2018 Tony Award-winning National... Read more »

All's Well That Ends Well - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Claire Bloom
Length: 2 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: Yes

A Shakespeare Society Production.

The complete play in five acts. Read more »

Macbeth - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Anthony Quayle & (Null) Cast
Length: 2 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: Yes

Features a unique cover illustration by Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are), specially commissioned for the Shakespeare on Compact Disc series. Read more »

Romeo and Juliet - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Claire Bloom & Albert Finney
Length: 2 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: Yes

A pair of star-cross'd lovers   -Prologue

Romeo and Juliet was Shakespeare's first great tragedy, a richly lyrical love story that has long been one of the author's most popular plays for performer and audience alike. Romeo and Juliet is a simple but dramatic cautionary tale about the blindness that both love and hate can engender. As performed... Read more »

The Two Gentlemen of Verona - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Peter Wyngarde & (Null) Cast
Length: 25 minutes
Abridged: Yes

He after honor hunts, I after love. He leaves his friends to dignify them more, I leave myself, my friends and all, for love. Proteus - Act I, Scene I

A Shakespeare Society Production.

The complete play in four acts. Read more »

Twelfth Night - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 2 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes

A Shakespeare Society Production.

The complete play in five acts. Read more »

Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles

By: Ray Bradbury
Narrated by: The Colonial Radio Players
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No

The people of Earth are preparing for war—a war that could potentially destroy the planet. Explorers are sent to Mars to find a new place for humans to colonize. Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor—of crystal pillars and fossil seas—where a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It... Read more »

We Are the BBC

By: Susan Casanove
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 59 minutes
Abridged: No

Rob Sterling Davies is on the crest of a wave: a celebrated scriptwriter, actor, television personality, the new doyen of Just a Minute, and apparently, Stephen Fry’s new best friend. But all isn’t quite as it seems, and when Stephen discovers that Rob’s BAFTA-winning script was stolen, he undertakes to expose Rob for the fraud he is.We Are the... Read more »

We Are Not the BBC

By: Susan Casanove
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No

This story is a lighthearted look at the radio drama production process as seen by the members of an amateur dramatics society in a sleepy suburb of Swansea.It can’t be difficult to make your own play for radio, can it? And with a LAMDA-trained professional actor at the helm, surely nothing could go wrong. After their attempt at Mike... Read more »

The War of the Worlds

By: H.G. Wells
Narrated by: John de Lancie, Meagan Fay, Jerry Hardin, Gates McFadden, Leonard Nimoy, Daryl Schultz, Armin Shimerman, Brent Spiner, Tom Virtue & Wil Wheaton
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes
Abridged: No

Join actors from Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation as they recreate this classic radio thriller. The breathless pace and convincing details make it clear why the 1938 broadcast of an "eyewitness report" of an invasion from Mars caused a nationwide panic. Originally directed by Orson Welles and performed by his Mercury Theatre of the... Read more »

NPR Road Trips: National Park Adventures

By: NPR
Narrated by: Various & Noah Adams
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: No

Grand Canyon National Park is one of the planet’s Seven Natural Wonders, with 4.4 million visitors each year. Who keeps them safe, fed, and happy? When the wind blows at White Sands National Monument, legend says the centuries-old ghost of a Mexican maiden appears in the shifting sands. In Yosemite National Park, there’s a guy who tracks road... Read more »

Macbeth

By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Abridged: No

Foretold he will be king, Macbeth embarks on a path of murderous treason, stopping at nothing to seize the throne...

Recorded at Glamis Castle in Scotland with a full cast, Almost Tangible's multi-award winning Macbeth is a gripping, immersive sound experience that puts the listener at the heart of the action in Shakespeare's epic drama about... Read more »

Anna in the Tropics

By: Nilo Cruz
Narrated by: Alma Martinez, Jonathan Nichols, Winston Rocha, Onahoua Rodriguez, Adriana Sevan, Herbert Siguenza & Jimmy Smits
Length: 1 hour 48 minutes
Abridged: No

This poignant and poetic Pulitzer Prize winning play captures 1929 Florida at a time when cigars are still rolled by hand and "lectors" are employed to educate and entertain the workers. The arrival of a new lector is a cause for celebration. But when he reads aloud from "Anna Karenina", he unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid... Read more »

Cymbeline - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Claire Bloom & Boris Karloff
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes

A Shakespeare Society Production.

In ancient Britain during the reign of King Cymbeline, Imogen, daughter to the king, dares to fall in love with a talented young nobleman named Posthumus. But when the king discovers that the couple has secretly married, he banishes Posthumus, and the two lovers must struggle against the power of the king and... Read more »

Coriolanus - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Richard Burton & Jessica Tandy
Length: 3 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes

A classic performance of one of the Bard's classics. Read more »

The Taming of the Shrew - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes

Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o'Sunday - Petruchio

A Shakespeare Society Production.

The complete play in five acts. Read more »

The Comedy of Errors - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Alec Mccowen & Anna Massey
Length: 1 hour 29 minutes
Abridged: Yes

We came into the world like brother and brother; And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another. - Dromio of Ephesus

The Comedy of Errors is likely the very first play Shakespeare ever wrote, and for that reason alone it deserves a special place in literary history. Yet, despite the author's lack of maturity, the play is unmistakably the... Read more »

Measure for Measure - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: Yes

When a young woman is offered the choice ofsaving a man's life at the price of her own chastity,what should she do?

The political and moral corruption of Vienna has driven Duke Vincentio into hiding while his deputy governor, Angelo is left to revive the old discipline of civic authority. Angelos First act is to imprison Claudio, a young nobleman... Read more »

The Tempest - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Michael Redgrave
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: Yes

"Our revels now are ended... this rough magic I here abjure..."

In Shakespeare hinting at the end of his own magnificent career in these and others lines spoken by the great magician, Prospero? The Tempest was the last of Shakespeare's comedies, completed just before he retired to his native Stratford-upon-Avon; perhaps this delightful comedy was... Read more »