Performance audiobooks

Garrison Keillor's Comedy Theater

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

1997 Grammy® Award nominee
1996 Listen Up Award—Best Humor

Enjoy the best of Garrison Keillor's comic fables from A Prairie Home Companion, all about true love and other tribulations, brought to life by a cast of brilliant radio actors.

Contents:
This Man This Woman; Taking a Chance on Love; Bertha's Kitty Boutique: Cat Box Video; Greenwich... Read more

The Family Radio

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A sampler of crowd-pleasers from A Prairie Home Companion: four "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues, "commercials" for Bertha's Kitty Boutique and the Fearmonger's Shoppe, and great music. All selections are from original live radio broadcasts.

Contents:
World Theater, Here We Come!Powdermilk BiscuitsThe Family RadioBertha's Kitty... Read more

News from Lake Wobegon: Summer

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Funny and touching, these monologues from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion focus on the summer season.

Includes: "The Living Flag," "The Tollefson Boy Goes to College," and "Tomato Butt." Read more

Horrors!

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Fear and loathing in Lake Wobegon? You betcha.

Garrison Keillor's Horrors! is a grab bag of treats from Halloween broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion. Horrors! features eclectic musical performances, commercials for loyal Prairie Home "sponsors" like Guy's Shoes, and lighthearted comedy from A Prairie Home Companion's cast of... Read more

Present Laughter

By: Noel Coward

Narrated by: Gregory Cooke, Arthur Hanket, Jon Matthews, Ian...

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A gallery of friends, lovers, relatives and theatre acolytes sparkle around stage star Garry Essendine like bubbles in fine champagne. While Garry struggles to plan his upcoming trip to Africa, his elegant London flat is invaded by a love struck ingénue, an adulterous producer and a married seductress–not to mention Garry’s estranged wife Liz... Read more

A Prairie Home Companion 20th Anniversary

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This retrospective collection of A Prairie Home Companion features complete monologues drawn from 20 years of radio broadcasts Filled with gentle humor, down-home truths, and amazing depths of tenderness and meaning, these tales of "the little town that time forgot and the decades could not improve" are classics of American... Read more

The Young Lutheran's Guide to the Orchestra

By: author

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A special performance combines a popular Garrison Keillor piece with a renowned orchestra. Read more

Bobby Gould in Hell

By: David Mamet

Narrated by: Gus Buktenica, Dale Calandia, Marilou Henner, M...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

David Mamet’s sequel to his classic “Speed the Plow” finds unethical movie producer Bobby Gould trying to talk his way out of eternal damnation. Read more

Julius Caesar

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Lee Arenberg, Bonnie Bedelia, David Birney, Jac...

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Richard Dreyfuss, Kelsey Grammer and Stacy Keach star in one of Shakespeare's most revered tragedies.

The skies over ancient Rome blaze with terrifying portents, and soothsayers warn Julius Caesar of approaching doom. As conspiracy swirls through the city, Shakespeare explores the deep repercussions of political murder on the human heart. A... Read more

Lucifer’s Child - Abridged

By: William Luce

Narrated by: Julie Harris

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The spellbinding Julie Harris takes us on a magic carpet into the beautiful and haunting world of writer Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), romantic author and heroine of Out of Africa. Through her fanciful pact with Lucifer, Dinesen becomes a defiant spirit, an eccentric storytelling sorceress—passionate and wickedly witty.Act I opens on... Read more

Gospel Birds

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Gospel Birds is a collection of nine classic and very funny monologues from the early years of A Prairie Home Companion. In addition to the title story (about Irma and Ernie Lundeen's traveling flock of acrobatic, bible-reciting birds), contents include:

Pastor Ingquist's Trip to OrlandoMammoth Concert Tickets Bruno, the Fishing DogGospel... Read more

Lake Wobegon U.S.A.

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Lake Wobegon U.S.A. is the eagerly anticipated successor to News From Lake Wobegon (one of the bestselling spoken-word audio ever) and More News From Lake Wobegon. This collection contains 17 touching, exquisitely funny monologues from Garrison Keillor recorded during American Radio Company broadcasts from tour stops all over the country. The... Read more

Candida

By: George Bernard Shaw

Narrated by: Tom Amandes, Christopher Cartmill, Rebecca MacL...

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Shaw’s warm and witty play challenged conventional wisdom about relationships between the sexes. A beautiful wife must choose between the two men who love her. A Court Theatre Company co-production.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Tom Amandes, Christopher Cartmill, Rebecca MacLean, David New, Nicholas Rudall and JoBeth... Read more

The Way Things Ought to Be - Abridged

By: Rush Limbaugh

Narrated by: Rush Limbaugh

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rush Limbaugh is a way of life for over twelve million avid and devoted listeners. For three hours every day this comic conservative of the airwaves with “talent on loan from God”​​ entertains, provokes and persuades friend sand enemies alike in a no-holds-barred show that is one of the biggest draws in radio history.

Using personal anecdotes,... Read more

The Heart of It

By: Elizabeth McNamer

Narrated by: Elizabeth McNamer

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Hamlet and Macbeth are two dramas by William Shakespeare that have been thrilling audiences for centuries. Both have been adapted to radio and film and continue to be taught in high schools and universities. But as with most of Shakespeare' s works, modern audiences sometimes need some help absorbing elements of both plays. In a... Read more

The Heart of It

By: Elizabeth McNamer

Narrated by: Elizabeth McNamer

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

As You Like It and A Midsummer Night' s Dream are two comedies by William Shakespeare that have been entertaining audiences for centuries. Both have been adapted to radio and film and continue to be taught in high schools and universities. But as with most of Shakespeare' s works, modern audiences sometimes need some help... Read more

Meeting of Minds

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more

Lake Wobegon Loyalty Days

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the live recording of the show that played to sold-out theaters across the country. As Philip Brunelle leads the Minnesota Orchestra, Garrison Keillor does what he does best: talks, tells stories, and ponders the experience of being Lutheran. It's a gentle mix of great music and down-home humor. Includes Keillor's popular parody, "A... Read more

News from Lake Wobegon

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the best-selling spoken audio of all time, this is the original collection of Garrison Keillor monologues. Funny and touching, these 20 stories from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion follow the seasons in Lake Wobegon.

Contents:
Spring: Me and Choir; A Day in the Life of Clarence Bunsen; Letter from Jim; Fiction
Summer:... Read more

More News from Lake Wobegon

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Successor to the best-selling News from Lake Wobegon, this collection of Garrison Keillor monologues includes 16 stories, grouped by theme: Love, Faith, Hope, and Humor. All are from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion.

Contents:
Rotten Apples; O Death; The Wise Men; A Trip to Grand Rapids; Truckstop; Smokes; The Perils of... Read more

Toni Morrison On Capturing A Mother's "Compulsion" To Nurture In "Beloved"

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

KQED presents a report on photographer Anthony Friedkin and his efforts to document gay life more than 40 years ago. Friedkin's photographs were ahead of their time and most galleries wouldn’t show them -- until now. The culmination of Friedkin’s vision took 45 years, but it’s now being realized at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. Read more

Turn Your Radio On: Michael Toms Is Interviewed by George Leonard

By: Michael Toms

Narrated by: George Leonard & Phil Catalfo

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Here Toms reveals his own early roots of how New Dimensions came through a series of synchronistic events. He also talks about his own spiritual background. This was a live radio program and includes calls from listeners. Read more

Poil de Carotte, une pièce de Jules Renard - Abridged

By: Jules Renard

Narrated by: Georges Wilson, Madeleine Renaud, Denise Benoit...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Poil de carotte est un enfant mal aimé, qui, pour lutter contre les humiliations quotidiennes et la haine maternelle, n'a que la ruse, cette arme des faibles. Ce court roman ou longue nouvelle publié en 1894 est à portée autobiographique, et dresse le portrait d'une enfance malheureuse dans laquelle on peut chercher les sources du scepticisme et... Read more

Le Pain de Ménage, une pièce de Jules Renard - Abridged

By: Jules Renard

Narrated by: Simone Valère & Jean Desailly

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Le Pain de ménage (1898) est une comédie en un acte de Jules Renard, à portée autobiographique, et souvent jouée avec une autre pièce de l'auteur, Le Plaisir de rompre (1897). Deux couples sont réunis pour un séjour de vacances. Marthe et Pierre, dont les conjoints respectifs se sont absentés après le dîner, évoquent leur vie de couple et... Read more