Performance audiobooks

A Shakespearean Actor Prepares - Abridged

By: Adrian Brine & Michael York

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Shakespeare knew more about the art of acting and the art of theater than any other playwright— but there is no general consensus about how Shakespeare should be played. There are no rules. While the Bard created superhuman characters and placed them in situations that stretch the imagination to its limits, he also provided his... Read more

Lost in Yonkers

By: Neil Simon

Narrated by: Barbara Bain, Gia Carides, Dan Castellaneta, Be...

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Yonkers, New York in 1942, two boys, aged 13 and 16, must spend one year with their austere and demanding grandmother. While the war rages in Europe, Jay and Arty learn the ropes from Uncle Louie and assorted relatives, all peculiar characters.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Barbara Bain, Gia Carides, Dan... Read more

Marvin's Room

By: Scott McPherson

Narrated by: Gloria Dorson, Roxanne Hart, Sharon Madden, Jas...

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Good-hearted Bessie has been taking care of ther ailing father for 20 years, but now she’s the one who’s sick, and she must reconcile with her estranged sister, Lee. A remarkably humorous and tender play, this critically acclaimed family drama was dubbed by The New York Times as “one of the funniest plays of the year as well as one of the wisest... Read more

A View from the Bridge

By: Arthur Miller

Narrated by: Charles Cioffi, Harry Hamlin, Jamie Hanes, Mary...

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Italian-American immigrant life in the 1950’s textures this searing drama of love and revenge. Longshoreman Eddie Carbone is devoted to his wife, Beatrice and to his niece, Catherine. When Beatrice’s impoverished Sicilian cousins enter the U.S. illegally, in hope of finding work, Eddie gives them a helping hand. But when Catherine and one of the... Read more

The Member of the Wedding

By: Carson McCullers

Narrated by: June Angela, John Cothran Jr., Ruby Dee, Daniel...

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Gangly, outspoken 12-year-old Frankie Addams yearns to belong to the “we of me,” and in a Southern kitchen, pours her heart out to the family cook, Berenice. One of the most beautiful plays ever written about loneliness and love.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
June Angela as Janice and Helen
John Cothran Jr. as T.T.... Read more

Mrs. Warren's Profession

By: George Bernard Shaw

Narrated by: Paul Gutrecht, Kaitlin Hopkins, Shirley Knight,...

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Modern parallels abound in the plight of Cambridge-educated mathematics wiz Vivie Warren, who discovers that her comfortable upbringing was financed in unspeakable ways. Shaw pits a clever heroine against a memorable gallery of rogues in this superbly intelligent -- and still shocking -- comedy, banned for eight years from the English stage.

An... Read more

Crimes of the Heart

By: Beth Henley

Narrated by: Ray Baker, Donna Bullock, Arye Gross, Glenne He...

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

This Pulitzer Prize-winner is a deeply touching and funny play about three eccentric sisters from a small Southern town rocked by scandal when Babe, the youngest, shoots her husband. Humor and pathos abound as the sisters unite with an intense young lawyer to save Babe from a murder charge, and overcome their family’s painful past. A BBC... Read more

Bordertown

By: Culture Clash

Narrated by: Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas & Herbert Siguenza

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Culture Clash brashly explores the San Diego-Tijuana region through satire and humor. Bordertown is based upon interviews the trio conducted with more than 100 people from both sides of the border and from every walk of life. Interviewees include right wing talk show host and former San Diego Mayor Roger Hedgecock, Sheriff Bill Kollender,... Read more

After the Fall

By: Arthur Miller

Narrated by: Amy Aquino, Amy Brenneman, Gregory Itzin, Antho...

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Miller’s famous autobiographical drama takes place inside the tortured mind of a 40-year-old lawyer. Quentin is haunted by his disastrous affair with a needy sex symbol - a character rumored to be based on Marilyn Monroe, Miller’s second wife. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in April 1999. Directed... Read more

An Ideal Husband

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Rosalind Ayres, Jacqueline Bisset, Paul Gutrech...

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A tender love story, a serpentine villainess, a glittering setting in London society and a shower of Wildean witticisms are only a few of the reasons this play has enjoyed hugely successful revivals in London and New York. This 1895 drama also seems eerily prescient, as it explores the plight of a promising young politician, desperate to hide a... Read more

Park Your Car in Harvard Yard

By: Israel Horovitz

Narrated by: Judith Ivey & Jason Robards

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Jacob Brackish, the toughest, meanest teacher ever to set foot in Gloucester High School is dying at home. His advertisement for a housekeeper to look after him during his final years is answered by a mousy 40-year-old named Kathleen, a woman Jacob has forgotten he flunked years before. Judith Ivey and Jason Robards recreate the roles they... Read more

Lady Windermere's Fan

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Gina Field, Judy Geeson, Joanna Going, Arthur H...

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The irreverent satire that launched Wilde’s succession of classical comedies. A Lord, his wife, her admirer and an infamous blackmailer converge in this delicious comic feast of scandal. A divinely funny comedy of good girls, bad husbands and the moral hypocrisy of British high society in the late nineteenth century.

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

Hay Fever

By: Noel Coward

Narrated by: Tate Donovan, Arabella Field, Joy Gregory, Jeff...

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A country house weekend goes haywire when the guests and their hosts play a game of romantic musical chairs. A most delightful madcap comedy.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Tate Donovan, Arabella Field, Joy Gregory, Jeffrey Jones, Lynne Marta, Serena Scott Thomas, Carolyn Seymour, Eric Stoltz and Simon Templeman. Read more

Neat

By: Charlayne Woodard

Narrated by: Charlayne Woodard

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In Neat, Obie Award-Winning writer/performer Charlayne Woodard shares her memories of growing up black in America in the 60’s and 70’s. Weaving magic, Woodard takes us from Savannah, Georgia to Albany, New York with engaging humor and sharp insight. Neat is the second play of a trilogy that began with Pretty Fire, and ended with In Real Life.

An... Read more

Broken Glass

By: Arthur Miller

Narrated by: Jane Brucker, David Dukes, Lawrence Pressman, L...

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in 1938 Brooklyn, this gripping psychological mystery begins when attractive, level-headed Sylvia Gellburg suddenly loses her ability to walk. The only clue lies in Sylvia’s obsession with news accounts from Germany. Though safe in Brooklyn, Sylvia is terrified by Nazi violence - or is it something closer to home? Includes an interview... Read more

Chapter Two

By: Neil Simon

Narrated by: David Dukes, Sharon Gless, Gates McFadden & Gra...

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Comedy and pathos mingle brilliantly in Neil Simon’s portrait of a widowed New York novelist who fears he’ll never love again and has no interest in dating. Neither does smart, attractive Jennie Malone, who has just returned from getting a Mexican divorce. A grudging five-minute meeting between them blossoms into a passionate, witty... Read more

Agnes of God

By: John Pielmeier

Narrated by: Barbara Bain, Emily Bergl & Harriet Harris

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this contemporary murder mystery, set within the confines of a convent, Agnes is a devout, innocent young nun accused of infanticide. As a psychiatrist, herself a lapsed Catholic, and the Mother Superior struggle over Agnes' fate, the play plunges deeply into the mystery of faith and the consequence of truth.

Includes an interview with Dr.... Read more

An American Daughter

By: Wendy Wasserstein

Narrated by: David Birney, Anna Gunn, Jamie Hanes, Gregory I...

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer-Prize winner Wendy Wasserstein spins a comic and moving tale about the pitfalls that await political appointees. As a respected health crusader and devoted wife and mother, Dr. Lyssa Hughes seems perfect for the role of U.S. Surgeon General, until a chance remark at a fashionable brunch sets off a media feeding frenzy.

An L.A. Theatre... Read more

Pretty Fire

By: Charlayne Woodard

Narrated by: Charlayne Woodard

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In five autobiographical vignettes, Charlayne Woodard tells the moving tale of her African-American family through three generations of love, struggle, and triumph. This NAACP award-winning play is a one-woman tour de force. Chosen as a “Recommended Young Adult Audiobook” by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the... Read more

J. Edgar!

By: Tom Leopold & Harry Shearer

Narrated by: Dan Castellaneta, Ethan Glazer, John Goodman, K...

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A sidesplitting musical about one of the most powerful men of the 20th Century. Learn about his secret love life, his need for personal privacy, and his obsession with knowing the private affairs of others. If you weren’t so busy laughing and humming the tunes, the show might upset you!

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

All My Sons

By: Arthur Miller

Narrated by: James Farentino, Arye Gross, Julie Harris, Mitc...

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

World War II is over, and a family mourning a son missing in action plants a memorial tree and tries to go on with their lives. When a storm blows down the tree, a devastating family secret is uprooted, setting the characters on a terrifying journey towards truth. A Tony Award Winner for Best Author (1947). A co-production with The Smithsonian... Read more

Fallen Angels

By: Noel Coward

Narrated by: Annette Bening, Harriet Harris, Judith Ivey, Jo...

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Julia and Fred and Willy and Jane are happily married and the best of friends, until a postcard arrives with news of the imminent arrival of a certain handsome Frenchman. Gay, debonair, and utterly sophisticated.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Annette Bening, Harriet Harris, Judith Ivey, Joe Mantegna, John Rubinstein and... Read more

Tales from Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

By: Mary Lamb & Charles Lamb

Narrated by: Emma Topping

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The re-written Shakespeare tale of Twelfth Night by Charles and Mary Lamb. Read more

Bang the Drum Slowly

By: Mark Harris

Narrated by: Ed Begley Jr., John Freeland Jr., Henry Harris,...

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A new dramatization of one of the greatest baseball stories of all time. A poignant, touching, and often comic tale of a baseball team’s friendship and loyalty to a dying teammate. Adapted from the novel by Mark Harris.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Ed Begley Jr., John Freeland Jr., Henry Harris, Brent Hinkley, Bruce... Read more