Audio Theatre Audiobooks | Drama

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia believed that the United States Constitution is the most reliable source for a fair interpretation of the law as it is applied today. He was, in other words, an "originalist." But aren't the laws written over 200 years ago subject to interpretation-or even guesswork? Edward Gero stars as the late Justice Scalia in John Strand's insightful look at Scalia's life and legal philosophy. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: Edward Gero as Justice Antonin Scalia Kerry Warren as Cat Harlan Work as Brad Sound designed by Jeff Gardner, based on an original design by Eric Shimelonis. Includes a post-show discussion about Antonin Scalia with Nina Totenberg, NPR's Legal Affairs Correspondent; Tara Kole, an entertainment attorney who clerked for Justice Scalia; John Bash, an Assistant to the Solicitor General at the United States Department of Justice; and Tom Goldstein, a Washington lawyer who's argued 38 cases before the Supreme Court. Directed by Molly Smith. Recorded before a live audience at the Arena Stage, Washington D.C. in June of 2016.

John Strand (Author), Edward Gero, Harlan Work, Karry Warren (Narrator)

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The Wireless Theatre Collection, Vol. 2

From the hilarious to the terrifying, this diverse collection features ten Wireless Theatre productions in a single volume: We Are the BBC by Susan Casanove, directed by Jack Bowman Rob Sterling Davies is on the crest of a wave-and apparently Stephen Fry's new best friend. But all isn't quite as it seems. We Are Not the BBC by Susan Casanove, directed by Jack Bowman Things start to look up for the members of an amateur dramatics society when a visiting celebrity steps in and plays the lead role. No Cause for Alarm by Gareth Rubin No Cause for Alarm is a silly play. It has no comment to make about the human condition, love in the twenty-first century, or the Iraq war. Stage Fright by Lynn Howes, directed by Emma Taylor Stage Fright charts the struggle for supremacy between three actors appearing in a play together. The Mighty Carlins by Collin Doyle, directed by Paul Blinkhorn On the anniversary of his wife's death, Leo Carlin and his two sons come together for their traditional night of sharing good and bad memories. Blood and Stone by Marty Ross, directed by Mariele Runacre Temple The "Bloody Lady of Cachtice" was bricked up in her own castle for murder. Why then does the young Katya want a job looking after the countess? The St. Valentine's Day Murder written and directed by Peter Davis It's Valentine's Day, but events turn less than romantic when one of the members of a dating site is murdered. Laying Ghosts by Clare Reddaway, directed by Emily Wright When Connie's beloved husband Jack dies, Connie hopes that her only son, Gary, will console her. Gary, however, has other plans. Emails from Abroad by Julia Messenger and Shirley Mawer Emails from Abroad is a play based on travels abroad relayed by emails between the ingenuous first-time traveler and her disillusioned "Being there when [a Wireless Theatre Live radio drama] is being recorded is thrilling!"-Guardian (London)

Lester Barry, Susan Casanove, The Wireless Theatre Company (Author), A Full Cast (Narrator)

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Never Again War: The Sacrifice of Käthe Kollwitz

SueMedia Productions/Midsummer Sound Company present this original audio drama by Helen Engelhardt. Begun as a stage play by Engelhardt, this adaptation focuses on key moments in the life of renowned artist Käthe Kollwitz to reveal the complex world in which she lived and the destructive nature of war. After her youngest son was killed in Belgium during the opening weeks of World War I, she devoted the rest of her life to using her art in opposition to war. The play begins in Berlin in February 1914 at a party in the Kollwitz home celebrating the eighteenth birthday of her son Peter. A few months later as war begins, Peter implores his parents for permission to join his older brother Hans to become a soldier in the army. To uphold her sons' idealism to sacrifice for the Fatherland, the socialist Kollwitz finds herself supporting them in a war she deeply disapproved of. When the play concludes two weeks before Germany's defeat at the end of World War II, Kollwitz has learned that every war is answered by a new war until everything is smashed because every war carries within it the war that will answer it, as World War II answered World War I. Cast: Käthe Kollwitz: Yelena Shmulenson Hans amd Karl Kollitz: Nick Sullivan Peter Kollwitz: Robert Fass Jutta Kollwitz: Katherine Kellgren Additional voices: Natalia Bell, Wilson Bridges, Butch D'Ambrosio, Nicholas Herd, Ryan McCabe, Alan Sklar Production credits: Audio play and booklet: Helen Engelhardt Poem translations: Professor Robert Kramer Translation assistants: Hanny Budnick, Almut Fitzgerald Special thanks: Dr. Krishna Winston Package design: David Shinn Sculpture photos: Marjorie Van Halteren Front cover design: Sue Zizza Crowd recordings: Natalie Cordero Engineering/Mastering: David Shinn Director/Producer: Sue Zizza Special thanks: The staff of the Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln “I was deeply moved by Never Again War, a very sensitive, quiet, and reflective production. And daring too, to show a German’s point of view in a positive light during the two great wars. Wonderful performances by everyone. I haven’t heard anything that touched me so deeply in a long, long time.”—Tom Lopez, president of the ZBS Foundation

Helen Engelhardt (Author), A Full Cast, Katherine Kellgren, Nick Sullivan, Robert Fass, Yelena Shmulenson (Narrator)

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IMPACT: The Impersonal Actor

Impact: The Impersonal Actor, is Shawn Clement Nelson's initial master work on acting philosophy and technique. In twelve audio chapters, it contains almost 5 hours of detailed lectures, examples, exercises and quotations to guide the actor in film, television and stage to the very highest concepts in theatrical craft. These are not taped classes - but a one-on-one audio course recorded live in studio, in Burbank, Ca. Designed to be listened to again and again, The Impersonal Actor brings the actor to an increasing understanding of the craft of acting - but not as it is commonly taught. In fact, it has been called heretical in its positions toward the subjects of character, circumstances, spontaneity and performance psychology. IMPACT has been used as course material at colleges and universities. Shawn Clement Nelson has been a teacher and coach to stars and working actors in Hollywood for three decades. He has taught acting at the University of Southern California and has been a guest instructor in acting and directing at Pasadena City College, the Sedona Film School, Liberty University, Louisiana State University, Northern Arizona University and Arizona State University. Shawn's new book, Comprehensive Contemporary Acting, Revised Edition (amazon), is also college course material.

Shawn Clement Nelson (Author), Shawn Clement Nelson (Narrator)

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Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice, a comedy of manners and marriage, is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels. In this dramatic adaption by Mary Keith Medbery Macakaye some liberties are taken with the storyline and characters, but it is still a fun listen or read. Perhaps a good introduction for someone not ready to tackle the complete novel ~ and for the reader familiar with the work, a laugh can be had at the changes that were made in order to adapt it to the stage.

Jane Austen (Author), Group (Narrator)

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Caesar and Cleopatra

George Bernard Shaw (Author), Group (Narrator)

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The Wireless Theatre Collection, Vol. 1

The award-winning and critically acclaimed Wireless Theatre Company strives to keep radio theater alive and well. From the hilarious to the terrifying, this diverse collection features ten Wireless Theatre productions in a single volume: Spook Squad by Jim Spiers, directed by Jack Bowman 2010: Space Commander! by Stuart Price, directed by David Beck Dream On by Paul Ekert, directed by Tom Brazier The Grimm of Stottesden Hall, written and directed by Stuart Price Phonophobia by Jack Bowman and Robert Valentine, directed by Tom Brazier Medusa on the Beach by Marty Ross The Youth of Old Age, written and directed by Stuart Price Devon Girl by Zalie Burrow, directed by Cherry Cookson Radio Hoohah, written and directed by Octavia MacKenzie and Ashley McGuire Angels in the Dark, written and directed by Susan Casanove "Being there when [a Wireless Theatre Live radio drama] is being recorded is thrilling!"-Guardian (London)

Paul Ekert, Stuart Price, The Wireless Theatre Company (Author), A Full Cast (Narrator)

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The Writing Game

In a rickety, 17th century converted farmhouse in Dorset, England, a group of authors teaches a creative writing seminar. One of them-a brash American novelist-finds he's got more to learn about writing and romance than he ever dreamed possible. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: Ian Abercrombie as Jeremy Dean, Michael Brandon as Leo Rapkin, Christine Estabrook as Maude Locket, Jeremy Geidt as Henry Locket, David Hunt as Simon St. Clair, and Melanie van Betten as Penny Seawell. Original music by Raymond Guarna. Directed by Michael Bloom and recorded before a live audience.

David Lodge (Author), Christine Estabrook, David Hunt, Ian Abercrombie, Jeremy Geidt, Melanie Van Betten, Michael Brandon (Narrator)

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Mothers

The story of two single mothers-one Japanese, the other Appalachian-who struggle to raise their mixed-race children in a Chicago tenement. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: Lira Angel as Penny, Takayo Fischer as Grandmother/Others, Lynn Hamilton as Momma Rainey, John Herzog as Judge/Others, Lyvingston Holmes as Mrs. Ellis, Dorothy Lyman as Jean, Jeanne Mori as Mariko, Gina Ravarra as Tami, Monte Russell as Terrence/Others, and Brenda Varda as Donna/Barbara. Directed by Robert Robinson and recorded before an audience.

Kathleen McGhee-Anderson (Author), Brenda Varda, Dorothy Lyman, Gina Ravarra, Jeanne Mori, John Herzog, Lira Angel, Lynn Hamilton, Lyvingston Holmes, Monte Russell, Takayo Fischer (Narrator)

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William Shakespeare: Macbeth. Eine Tragödie: Ungekürzte Fassung

William Shakespeare (Author), Jürgen Fritsche (Narrator)

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The North Water

Fast-paced, gripping. A tour de force of narrative tension and a masterful reconstruction of a lost world' Hilary Mantel'Utterly convincing and compelling, remorselessly vivid and insidiously witty. A startling achievement' Martin Amis A 19th-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp and highly original tale that grips like a thriller. Behold the man: stinking, drunk, brutal and bloodthirsty, Henry Drax is a harpooner on the Volunteer, a Yorkshire whaling ship bound for the hunting waters of the Arctic Circle. Also aboard is Patrick Sumner, an ex-army surgeon with a shattered reputation, no money and no better option than to embark as ship's medic on this ill-fated voyage. In India during the Siege of Delhi, Sumner thought he had experienced the depths to which a man can stoop and imagined he'd find respite on the Volunteer, but now, trapped in the wooden belly of the ship with Drax, he encounters pure evil and is forced to act. As the true purposes of the expedition become clear, the confrontation between the two men plays out in the freezing darkness of an Arctic winter.

Ian McGuire (Author), John Keating (Narrator)

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The Damon Runyon Theatre, Vol. 1

Damon Runyon was a newspaperman and writer. He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of New York City's Broadway that grew out of the Prohibition era. He created a little world of characters that live on even today in such classic movies as Little Miss Marker and Guys and Dolls, both based on Runyon's stories. Actor Alan Ladd's Mayfair Productions brought Runyon's short stories to radio in the early 1950s. Each episode of The Damon Runyon Theatre is told through the eyes of a hoodlum with a heart of gold named "Broadway," who takes the listener inside the world of some of the Big Apple's toughest yet most charming perpetrators. Broadway and the many thugs, touts, dames, and palookas he encounters speak in a thick present-tense Brooklynese that is a delight for the listener to hear. John Brown played Broadway, and the supporting casts were a who's who of radio, including William Conrad, Alan Reed, Frank Lovejoy, Sheldon Leonard, Hans Conreid, Anne Whitfield, and Ed Begley. The series made a brief transition to television. Included here are the following episodes, which aired from October 1950 to January 1951: "The Hottest Guy in the World" "All Horseplayers Die Broke" "Princess O'Hara" "For a Pal" "A Piece of Pie" "Barbecue" "The Brain Goes Home" "Hold 'Em Yale" "Old Em's Kentucky Home" "Blood Pressure" "Lonely Heart" "Broadway Complex"

Hollywood 360 (Author), A Full Cast (Narrator)

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