Performance audiobooks

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

The Grapes of Wrath

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Emily Bergl, Mike Buie, Daniel Chacon, Maurice ...

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A heart-wrenching full-cast adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by John Steinbeck, starring Jeffrey Donovan and Shirley Knight. Set during the Great Depression, The Grapes of Wrath tells the powerful story of the Joad family’s trek from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the promise of a new life in California. But what they find... Read more

More News from Lake Wobegon: Humor

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Humor includes "Skinny Dip," "Homecoming," "The Freedom of the Press," and "Vicks." Read more

Brighton Beach Memoirs

By: Neil Simon

Narrated by: Max Casella, Peter Michael Goetz, Valerie Harpe...

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In Neil Simon’s darkly funny memoir of his family in 1930’s Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Eugene is preoccupied by his passion for the Yankees and his lust for his beautiful cousin, Nora. Eugene’s comic growing pains contrast with the darker issues troubling his family: poverty, illness and the growing Nazi threat to relatives in Europe. Simon... Read more

Tape

By: Stephen Belber

Narrated by: William Mapother, Alison West & Josh Stamberg

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

When Jon attends the premier of his movie in the Lansing Film Festival, he faces the most important weekend of his young life-but not in ways he expected. His old pal, Vince, has been stewing for a decade and their high school friend, Amy, is now the assistant district attorney in Lansing. Edgy humor gives way to fiery confrontation that... Read more

Spinning Into Butter

By: Rebecca Gilman

Narrated by: Jordan Baker, Daniel Chacon, Michael Cotter, Pa...

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when conflicting emotions inhabit the same space? When a new vocabulary is devised to disguise the same old thoughts? In this barbed satire of political correctness, Rebecca Gilman’s provocative characters spin a web of their own, revealing the latent racism that may lurk beneath the porcelain veneer of a liberated conscience.

An... Read more

Dinah Was

By: Oliver Goldstick

Narrated by: Paul Eiding, Yvette Freeman, Adriane Lenox, Bud...

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In a white fur coat, “The Queen of the Blues” sits on her luggage outside a Las Vegas hotel. It is 1959; the legendary star cannot enter the hotel without a white escort. So Dinah Washington, in her inimitable style, takes a long pull from her flask and starts kicking up a fuss. Yvette Freeman reprises her Obie award-winning performance in this... Read more

Dinner With Friends

By: Donald Margulies

Narrated by: Matthew Arkin, Lisa Emery, Kevin Kilner & Deird...

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for drama, Dinner with Friends examines the lives of two couples and the repercussions of divorce on their friendships. With wit, compassion and consummate skill, playwright Donald Margulies weighs the cost of breaking up — and of staying together.

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

Dugout III: Warboy (and the Backboard Blues )

By: Terry Allen

Narrated by: Jo Harvey Allen, Terry Allen, Richard Bowden & ...

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing upon his childhood memories of West Texas, artist, musician and writer Terry Allen has created this magical, multi-layered evening in the tradition of Southern story-telling. As Allen explains, “Dugout is a love story; an investigation into how memory is invented.”

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Jo Harvey Allen,... Read more

Earth and Sky

By: Douglas Post

Narrated by: Ana-Alicia, Ed Begley Jr., Annette Bening, Jana...

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Head in the clouds, Sara McKeon lives in the rarefied world of library work and poetry readings. She seems completely unsuited to investigating the sudden brutal murder of her lover. A haunting mystery infused with humor, poetry, and urban grit.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Ana-Alicia,Ed Begley Jr., Annette Bening, Jana... Read more

On the Waterfront

By: Budd Schulberg

Narrated by: Maurice Chasse, Richard Cox, Kevin Daniels, Bru...

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Terry Malloy, the “seemingly soulless street survivor,” unwittingly lures a rebellious longshoreman to his death in Budd Schulberg’s searing drama about the New York waterfront, the racketeering unions controlling it, and the kid who “could’a been a contender.” Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, in... Read more

Orson's Shadow

By: Austin Pendleton

Narrated by: Caroline Goodall, Glenne Headly, Martin Jarvis,...

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Laurence Olivier. Orson Welles. Vivien Leigh. Joan Plowright. Kenneth Tynan. When these champions of the theatre get together to rehearse Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, mere mortals best step aside. With lightning wit and scathing insight into the true nature of genius, Austin Pendleton’s play opens the private worlds of these very public people,... Read more

A Few More Pretty Good Jokes

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The Joke Show is the most popular annual broadcast from A Prairie Home Companion. A Few More Pretty Good Jokes features all the jokes from the most recent shows which aired in April 2000 and 2002 (both were done in New York). These recordings are a welcome supplement to the highly successful previous Joke Book, Tape, and CD. Read more

The Guys

By: Anne Nelson

Narrated by: Swoosie Kurtz & Bill Irwin

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

First performed in a hit off-off-Broadway production, and soon to be a film starring Sigourney Weaver and Anthony LaPaglia, The Guys is a timeless drama about the surprising truths people can discover in ordinary lives, and the connections we make with others and ourselves in times of tragedy.

Paralyzed by grief and unable to put his thoughts... Read more

Cakewalk

By: Peter Feibleman & Carly Simon

Narrated by: Samantha Bennett, Bruce Davison, Claudette Nevi...

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Broadway legend Elaine Stritch stars as literary legend Lillian Hellman in this beguiling account of Hellman’s tumultuous relationship across several decades with a man 25 years her junior, played by Oscar-nominee Bruce Davison. Featuring music by Carly Simon.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Samantha Bennett, Bruce Davison,... Read more

A Lesson Before Dying

By: Romulus Linney

Narrated by: Rick Foucheux, Keith Glover, Jamahl Marsh, Lind...

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on Ernest J. Gaines’ National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940’s. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsely convicted of murder and is sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, the plantation schoolteacher, agrees to talk with the condemned man.... Read more

Barefoot in the Park

By: Neil Simon

Narrated by: Norman Aronovic, Laura Linney, J. Fred Shiffman...

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A brand-new lawyer and his bride have returned from their honeymoon and are moving into a new apartment. Once there, they find the place is bare of furniture, the paint job is wrong, the skylight leaks and wacky neighbors keep popping up! A classic!

Includes an interview with Marc Masterson, the Artistic Director of South Coast Repertory in Costa... Read more

Tyler on Prime Time

By: Steve Atinsky

Narrated by: Max Casella

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Tyler Stewart knows he’s going to be a television star. He’s funny, and his uncle Pete is a writer for the most popular show on TV. Best of all, Tyler’s parents have just sent him to visit Pete in Hollywood. Talk about luck—no more of his mom’s worrying and his dad’s instructions, for the rest of his summer vacation. Everyone in show business... Read more

Radio Mambo: Culture Clash Invades Miami

By: Culture Clash

Narrated by: Culture Clash, Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas & H...

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed comedy trio known as Culture Clash spent three months interviewing about 70 Miami residents for this mix of vignettes about urban renewal, crimes, hurricanes and immigration, as well as where to get a plate of arroz con pollo served by a six foot drag queen.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Culture Clash: ... Read more

Shadowlands

By: William Nicholson

Narrated by: Arthur Hanket, Harriet Harris, Nicholas Hormann...

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

William Nicholson’s Tony nominated stage adaptation of his award-winning BBC Teleplay relates the story of shy Oxford don and children’s author C.S. Lewis and American poet Joy Gresham. Shadowlands shows how love, and the risk of loss, transformed this great man’s relationships, even with God.

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

Incident at Vichy

By: Arthur Miller

Narrated by: Ben Diskin, Arye Gross, Jamie Hanes, Andrew Haw...

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In Vichy, France, in 1942, nine men are detained under a shadowy pretext. As the tension builds, the men are questioned – are they the sort of people whom the new Nazi regime considers "inferior?" Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in February 2002. Directed by Richard Masur Producing Director: Susan... Read more