Performance audiobooks

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

As You Like It - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Vanessa Redgrave

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

""All the world's a stage."" —JaquesThe complete play in five acts. A Shakespeare Recording Society Production. A full-cast performance featuring Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Michell, Max Adrian, Stanley Holloway and OthersAs You Like It is quintessential Shakespearean comedy, complete with a loquacious clown, lovers, disguises, rifts and... Read more

The Merchant of Venice - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Hugh Griffith

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

...if you prick us do we not bleed? - Shylock. A Shakespeare Recording Society Production. The complete play in five acts.The beautiful Portia has many suitors within Venetian society, among them the young nobleman Bassanio, who has squandered his fortune. Desperate to win Portia’s heart, Bassanio borrows money from Shylock, the Jewish... Read more

Much Ado About Nothing - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Rex Harrison

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Two couples—Benedick and Beatrice, and Hero and Claudio—must overcome deception, gossip, and, occasionally, their own misplaced pride if their love is to persevere. Aided by military commander Don Pedro and impeded by his brother Don John, the friends go to great lengths in the pursuit of marriage.
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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

Cymbeline - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Claire Bloom & Boris Karloff

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Performed by Claire Bloom and Boris KarloffIn 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... Read more

Sonnets - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The complete sonnets performed by the quintessential Shakespearian actor, Sir John Gielgud. 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.Desperately in love with Bertram, the son of a Spanish countess, Helena schemes with the virginal Diana to fulfill Bertram’s stipulations and win his love. As Bertram’s infidelity and Helena’s deceits are revealed, the estranged lovers reunite, but the audience is left to wonder... Read more

Othello - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

...Speak of one that loved not wisely but too well.A Shakespeare Society Production.The complete play in five acts. Read more

Antony and Cleopatra - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A Shakespeare Society Production. The complete play in five acts. 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

Hamlet - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

What a piece of work is manA 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

""Is this a dagger I see before me?""

Features a unique cover illustration by Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are), specially commissioned for the Shakespeare on Compact Disc series. 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.Raised to the heights of power in recognition of his bravery against the Volscian army, Caius Marcius Coriolanus, finds himself betrayed by Brutus and Sicinius. Exiled from Rome and seeking vengeance, Coriolanus allies himself with the Aufidius, a general in the Volscian army. But, as... Read more

King Richard III - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Robert Stephens & (Null) Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Now is the winter of our discontent... - Richard, Duke of GloucesterA Shakespeare Society Production.The complete play in five acts.    Read more

The Merry Wives of Windsor - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Sir John Falstaff has very little money upon his arrival in Windsor, and sets out to court two wealthy wives in the hopes of fattening his coin purse. The two clever wives—Mistress Page and Mistress Ford—discover Falstaff’s plot, but instead of rejecting him, set out to have some fun at his expense.Known as “The Bard of Avon,” William... 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 IA Shakespeare Society Production.The complete play in four acts. Read more

Julius Caesar - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Sir Ralph Richardson & (Null) Cast

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

""Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war..."" - AntonyA Shakespeare Society Production. The complete play in five acts.Features a unique cover illustration by Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are), specially commissioned for the Shakespeare on Compact Disc series -- now on digital audiobook. 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 EphesusThe 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

Tea at Five

By: Matthew Lombardo

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Kate Mulgrew as Katharine Hepburn in TEA AT FIVE has won standing ovations at each performance. The independent, intelligent, feisty Hepburn comes alive when Mulgrew slips deftly into the voice and being of the famous actress. The two-act play opens in 1938 when the actress is 31 years old and in the middle of a career slump. She is awaiting a... Read more

Home on the Prairie

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest in a line of bestselling collections that began with News from Lake Wobegon, this set selects monologues from four years (1999-2002) of live radio programs. Some were broadcast from the Fitzgerald Theatre, the show's St. Paul home. Others were recorded on the road in Dublin, Pasadena, Grand Forks, and other exotic places. Read more

Pretty Good Bits from A Prairie Home Companion and Garrison Keillor

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever wondered what makes over 3 million listeners tune in week after week to Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion? Thought about a visit to Lake Wobegon but never got around to it? Now is the time to find out and take a special tour. Pretty Good Bits is a special limited edition sampler containing "pretty good bits" from this popular... Read more

night, Mother

By: Marsha Norman

Narrated by: Sharon Gless & Katherine Helmond

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

This Pulitzer Prize winner tells the powerful story of an epileptic woman in her early 40’s systematically preparing her own death - and the frantic and touching efforts of her mother to stop her. This searing drama is guaranteed to keep any listener on the edge of their seat.

An L.A. Theatre Works performance featuring Sharon Gless and Katherine... Read more