Performance audiobooks

The Misanthrope

By: Molière

Narrated by: Harry Althaus, Amy Farrington, Bradford Farwell...

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Razor-sharp wit inflames a competitive game of survival in the salons of 17th century France where, in this world of "finest appearances," one man's blunt honesty shatters his society's delicate web of manners. Often considered to be Moliere's Hamlet, The Misanthrope is a wickedly scathing satire.

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

It's That Man Again Volume 1

By: BBC

Narrated by: Tommy Handley

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

It's That Man Again is a giant in the history of radio comedy. As Mat Coward's book Classic Radio Comedy says, "Surely the most written-about radio series in history, it was successful to an extent which is hard to imagine today. Its international audience was measured in the tens of millions. Its star, Tommy Handley, was undoubtedly the most... Read more

Never Better

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town…." Each week, more than four million radio listeners hear these words, and settle in for some old-fashioned, up-to-the-minute storytelling.

During live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor takes us to "the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve,"... Read more

The Making Of Modern Medicine

By: Andrew Cunningham

Narrated by: Andrew Cunningham

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This major new Radio 4 series charts the development of Western medicine and healing from the ancient Greeks to the pioneering organ transplant operations of the 20th Century and beyond. ‘The Making of Modern Medicine’ covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original sources from diaries, medical journals and... Read more

Work Song - Three Views of Frank Lloyd Wright

By: Jeffrey Hatcher & Eric Simonson

Narrated by: Jim Beaver, Amy Brenneman, Chris Butler, Matthe...

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In Work Song, tensions between master architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his tempestuous relationships are explored in this uniquely prismatic view of one of the great architects of the modern era. This engaging production includes a panel discussion with Wright biographer Harold Zellman.

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

The Watts Towers Project

By: Roger Guenveur Smith

Narrated by: Roger Guenveur Smith

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Smith's edgy and funny The Watts Tower Project focuses on Simon Rodia, the Italian immigrant who spent 33 years building his towers - only to walk away from them, never to return. Smith blends his own childhood, the life of Rodia, and L.A. history to create a wonderfully eclectic piece.

An L.A. Theatre Works performance featuring Roger Guenveur... Read more

The Real Dr. Strangelove

By: Peter Goodchild

Narrated by: Jordan Baker, Corey Brill, John de Lancie, Reed...

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The birth of Armageddon. The first H-bomb detonates and the proud father is Edward Teller. But he's on a collision course with Robert Oppenheimer, the inventor of the bomb that obliterated Hiroshima. Now Oppenheimer has turned pacifist and the government will stop at nothing to "neutralize" him. And Teller is their star witness!

An L.A. Theatre... Read more

Fired Again

By: Annabelle Gurwitch and company

Narrated by: Scott Carter, Rob Cohen, Eric Gilliland, Jonath...

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

If you spend time at all in the work place you're going to get laid off, downsized, let go, out-sourced, axed, terminated, canceled, canned, dismissed - Fired! Odds are you might even get Fired Again! Annabelle Gurwitch's hugely popular book “Fired: Tales of the Canned, Canceled, Downsized and Dismissed” has led to the production of a hit... Read more

The Complete Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 16 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-three great Sherlock Holmes mysteries as published in Strand Magazine. These stories have won over readers in the thousands and have helped make Sherlock Holmes the most popular and most famous detective of all times.Arthur Conan Doyle, was born in Scotland in 1859. He was educated in Jesuit schools in England and Austria. In 1881 he... Read more

The Living Room

By: Graham Greene

Narrated by: W. Morgan Sheppard, Julian Sands, Kirsten Potte...

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

London in the 1950s. A mysterious house, home to a family that has seen better days, will not yield its secrets. And a love affair turns to tragedy... Greene, one of the foremost writers of the 20th century, based the play on his own passionate but doomed affairs, and his conflicted view of Catholicism.

Includes an interview with one of the... Read more

A Huey P. Newton Story

By: Roger Guenveur Smith

Narrated by: Roger Guenveur Smith & Marc Anthony Thompson

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In his brilliantly imagined, Obie Award-winning show, Roger Guenveur Smith explores the life of the controversial Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton through a series of improvisations based on his own words and writings. Biography, satire, and socio-political commentary blend within a landscape of fantastic sound design to create a provocative,... Read more

Biloxi Blues

By: Neil Simon

Narrated by: Justine Bateman, Rob Benedict, Joshua Biton, Jo...

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The second hilarious installment of Neil Simon’s autobiographical trilogy follows a naïve Eugene Jerome through boot camp. Performed by: Justine Bateman, Rob Benedict, Joshua Biton, John Cabrera, Matthew Patrick Davis, Steve Rankin, Josh Radnor, Russell Soder and Darby Stanchfield Read more

The Al Read Show

By: Ronnie Taylor

Narrated by: Al Read

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Described by Radio Times as "a brilliant observer of the domestic scene, a master reporter of life as we know it", Al Read's weekly show drew audiences of 35 million during the 1950s and 60s.Born in Salford in 1909, Al started life as a sausage manufacturer, having inherited the family's meat-processing factory. His comedy developed from his... Read more

The Chrysalids & Survival

By: John Wyndham

Narrated by: Full Cast, John Moffatt, Nicholas Courtney, Ste...

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Two classic tales from acclaimed British science fiction writer John Wyndham. In The Chrysalids, ten-year-old David is a happy, ordinary boy, untroubled except for occasional strange dreams about a mysterious city – until he befriends Sophie, who is unlike anybody he has met before: she has six toes. But, in the ultra-religious village of... Read more

The Midwich Cuckoos

By: John Wyndham

Narrated by: Bill Nighy, Full Cast & Sarah Parish

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Driving back from a weekend in London, Richard and Janet Gayford are surprised to find the village of Midwich sealed off because of ‘army manoeuvres’. There are no birds singing, the air seems thick and there is a strange sort of music in the air. It soon becomes clear that there is an invisible wall around the village, and everyone within the... Read more

Fresh Air: Stars

By: Terry Gross

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Terry Gross interviews eleven stage and screen personalities. Read more

Romance

By: David Mamet

Narrated by: Fred Willard, Ed Begley Jr., Gordon Clapp, Noah...

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In this outrageous new comedy, playwright David Mamet skewers everything from sexuality to the justice system to world peace. In a world where nothing is as it seems, prepare to be offended! Fred Willard and Ed Begley Jr. star in this over-the-top comedy.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Fred Willard, Ed Begley Jr., Gordon... Read more

Bunbury

By: Tom Jacobson

Narrated by: Jean Gilpin, Kathryn Hahn, Melinda Page Hamilto...

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

What if Blanche Dubois didn't go crazy? Or the Three Sisters actually made it to Moscow? When he discovers he's only a fictitious, never seen character in a Oscar Wilde play, Bunbury joins forces with Rosaline, Romeo's never-seen obsession from Romeo and Juliet. Together they infiltrate and alter classic literature, including giving Romeo and... Read more

Mary Stuart

By: Friedrich von Schiller

Narrated by: Sheelagh Cullen, Kenneth Danziger, Seamus Dever...

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Elizabeth I of England is threatened by the survival of her Catholic cousin, Mary Stuart. Wrestling with her own conscience, the Queen agonizes over Mary's fate, amidst fears for her own life. Court intrigue has never been more gripping than in this "acute study in the art of double-dealing politics." (The New York Times)

An L.A. Theatre Works... Read more

Pride and Prejudice (1997)

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Kate Burton, Melanie Dix, Elizabeth Laidlaw, Fr...

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A 1997 recording of Christina Calvit’s stage adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen’s classic romantic comedy is a sparkling tale of the Bennets, a family blessed with five daughters and a mother desperate to marry them off. The tempestuous pairing of the witty, independent Elizabeth and her arrogant but honorable suitor Mr. Darcy sets... Read more

King Richard the Second - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud & Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Richard the Second is a poet’s play, full of great speeches and fine writing rather than subtle character drawing and keen insight. Performed by Sir John Gielgud, Jeremy Brett, and a Full Cast. Read more

Ages of Man - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here are some of Shakespeare's finest speeches performed by one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of this century. It ranges from the youth of Jaques' introduction to life, 'All the world's a stage!' in ""As You Like It"" to the aged Prospero's goodbye to Ariel and Shakespeare's own farewell to his muse in ""The Tempest"": 'Now my charms are... Read more

Arms and the Man

By: George Bernard Shaw

Narrated by: Al Espinosa, Jeremy Sisto, Teri Garr, Anne Hech...

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 1885, and Raina's bourgeois Bulgarian family is caught up in the heady patriotism of the war with Serbia. The beautiful, headstrong Raina eagerly awaits her fiancé's victorious return from battle - but instead meets a soldier who seeks asylum in her bedroom. This is one soldier who definitely prefers romance and chocolate to fear and... Read more

The Men From Ministry

By: BBC

Narrated by: Deryck Guyler, Richard Murdoch & Wilfrid Hyde-W...

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Here are four episodes of classic comedy from the days when the Civil Service had a sense of humour. The Men from the Ministry were the hilarious radio forerunners of TV's Yes Minister — bungling bureaucrats who bungled for 15 glorious years from 1962 to 1977. Read more