*The Graduate by Terry Johnson
Thu, Mar 01, 2012
“The excellent adaptation and superb acting deliver a performance that will find listeners laughing out loud...”
Theatrical Productions Archive
Fake by Eric Simonson
Sat, Oct 01, 2011
“The actors/readers are all excellent and each plays two roles....The sound effects, music and audience interaction also add to the enjoyment of the listening experience.”
*The Mark of Zorro by Yuri Rasovky
Sat, Oct 01, 2011
“The story may be campy but the dramatization is first class...”
Of One Blood by Andrew White
Fri, Oct 01, 2010
A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Lee Arenberg, John Cothran Jr., Judyann Elder, Arye Gross, Valerie Landsburg, Macon McCalman, Bruce Norris, David Schwimmer, Joey Slotnick, Renee Victor, Thomas Victor, Brian Wesley Thomas
The Value of Names by Jeffrey Sweet
Wed, Sep 01, 2010
This is the author's most frequently performed play. This full-cast performance features Hector Elizondo,Garry Marshall, Sally Murphy
Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
Sun, Aug 01, 2010
Ariel Dorfman, born in 1942 in Argentina, is a writer of novels, plays, poetry. He has also written about the impact of political repression and terrorism. His family spent the first years of his life in the US, returning to Chile in 1954. He was forced to leave Chile after the military coup of 1973 that overthrew the democratically elected president Savador Allende; he settled in the US to teach and write until the restoration of democracy in Chile in 1990. He lives part of the year in Chile and part of the year in the US. Death and the Maiden, perhaps his best known work, was written in 1990 and premiered on stage in London in 1991.
*Three Plays by Ayn Rand
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
AYN RAND (1905–1982) was born in Russia, graduated from the University of Leningrad, and came to the United States in 1926. She published her first novel in 1936. With the publication of The Fountainhead in 1943, she achieved a spectacular and enduring success and her unique philosophy, objectivism, gained a worldwide following.
Never the Sinner by John Logan
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
John Logan is an award-winning playwright and film script writer. Never the Sinner, produced for the stage in Chicago in 1986, was Logan’s first play. He is also the screenwriter for the following films: The Aviator (2004); Star Trek: Nemesis, Gladiator (2000); and Any Given Sunday (1999). Founded in 1974, the mission of L.A. Theatre Works (LATW) is to enrich the cultural life of our national community through the use of innovative technologies to produce and preserve significant works of dramatic literature on audio, and to assure the widest public access to these great works.
Born Guilty by Ari Roth
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
Based on actual interviews of children of Nazi parents, this dramatization of those interviews takes place in 1991 in Germany, Austria and London.
Mastergate by Larry Gelbart
Sat, May 01, 2010
Larry Gelbart was an American television writer, playwright, screenwriter and author. He is perhaps best known as one of the creators and driving forces behind long-running television series MASH. He also co-wrote the film Tootsie and the broadway play A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum. He died in 2009.
Atomic Bombers by Russell Vandenbroucke
Sat, May 01, 2010
Russell Vandenbroucke served for eleven seasons as artistic director of Chicago’s Northlight Theatre, where he directed such plays as the Philoctetes of Sophocles, Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires in the Mirror, and the world premieres of Arnold Wesker’s Three Women Talking and Martha Boesing’s My Other Heart. As a playwright, he is the author of Feiffer’s America and Eleanor: In Her Own Words, adapted from the writings of Eleanor Roosevelt which won a Los Angeles Emmy. His play Atomic Bombers commemorated the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima on radio and opened Northlight’s first permanent theatre. His lifelong commitment to peace and justice is reflected in many of the plays he has written, directed, and produced.
*Betrayed by George Packer
Sat, May 01, 2010
George Packer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of several books, most recently The Assassins’ Gate. His reporting has won four Overseas Press Club awards.
Unquestioned Identity by Mame Hunt
Sat, May 01, 2010
Mame Hunt attended the University of California, Davis, CA. She is the Lead Dramaturg, Sundance Theatre Lab. She is also Adjunct Professor, Department of Theatre/Performance Studies, Georgetown University.
This is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan
Sat, May 01, 2010
Kenneth Lonergan has had his work performed at Naked Angels, H.B. Playwrights' Foundation, Atlantic Theatre Company, Manhattan Punchline, the Royal Court Theatre (London), the first annual Young Playwrights' Festival at Circle Rep, and the Coast Theatre in Los Angeles. Currently working on an original screenplay for Universal and soon to direct his first film, You Can Count On Me, based on his original screenplay, he is co-author of the story and screenplay for the hit movie Analyze This. He lives in New York.
This Town by Sidney Blumenthal
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Sidney Blumenthal is a former aide to President Bill Clinton and a widely published American journalist, especially on American politics and foreign policy. He has written for The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker.
Stick Fly by Lydia Diamond
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Lydia R. Diamond is a Huntington Playwriting Fellow and resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists. Her plays include The Gift Horse (anthologized in Seven Black Plays), Voyeurs de Venus, The Inside, and Stage Black. Her adaptation of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye premiered at the Steppenwolf Theatre and won the Black Arts Alliance Image Award for best new play. Lydia has taught at Columbia College Chicago, DePaul University, and Loyola University. She is currently on the faculty at Boston University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Norman Conquests by Alan Ayckbourn
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Alan Ayckbourn is an Olivier, Tony, and Moliere Award-winning playwright, who has written over 74 plays. This one is his best known.
The School for Wives by Moliere
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 1622-1673, writing and acting under his stage name of Moliere, was a master of comic theatre whose influence remains strong even today.
*Ceremonies in Dark Old Men by Lonne Elder III
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Actor/playwright Lonne Elder III died in 1996. This is his best known work.
Speech and Debate by Stephen Karam
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Stephen Karam is co-author of Columbinus (2006 Helen hayes nomination), which ran at New York Theatre Workshop following a co-production by Round House/Perseverance Theatres. His last two plays, Speech & Debate and Girl on Girl, debuted as workshop production at the Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre. He is currently working on a new play commission for Roundabout Theatre Company, and opera libretto and a screenplay adaptation of Speech & Debate for Overture Films.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin on October 16th, 1854. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1878. His espousal of the fin de siècle Aesthetic Movement, which preached devotion to art above all else, resulted in acclaim from some, and deep hostility from others. In 1882 Wilde arrived in North America to give a lecture tour, announcing as he landed that he had ‘nothing to declare but my genius'.
Barrymore by William Luce
Wed, Sep 30, 2009
William Luce has adapted his acclaimed Broadway hit especially for audio in this dramatization.
La Bete by David Hirson
Mon, Aug 31, 2009
The work of award-winning American dramatist David Hirson includes La Bete and Wrong Mountain.
Secret Order by Bob Clyman
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Bob Clyman’s plays have been performed off-Broadway and in such theatres as the Denver Center Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Colony Studio Theatre (Los Angeles), Missouri Rep and Mill Mountain Theatre (Roanoke, Virginia), in addition to touring in Scotland.
The Rivalry by Norman Corwin
Sat, Apr 25, 2009
Academy Award-nominees Paul Giamatti and David Strathairn star in Norman Corwin's electrifying dramatization of the history-making Lincoln-Douglas debates.
Moving Bodies by Arthur Giron
Mon, Feb 23, 2009
L.A. Theatre Works brings together the world’s greatest actors to perform classic and contemporary plays, recorded in state-of-the-art sound quality.
Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers by Leroy Aarons and Geoffrey Cowan
In 1992, LATW was awarded The Corporation for Public Broadcasting's gold and silver awards for Best Live Entertainment and Technical Achievement in Public Radio for "The Play's the Thing"