"In this unique audio adaptation of Neil Simon's screenplay, Paula McFadden's a down-on-her-luck actress who's forced to take in a new roommate - the eccentric, noisy, and generally unpleasant Elliot Garfield - who also happens to be an actor. As their careers and finances hit new lows, their reluctant partnership threatens to turn into something neither one wants.
Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in January 2018.
Director: Rosalind Ayres
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
Ellis Greer as Donna Douglas & Others
Anna Mathias as Multiple Roles
Matthew Floyd Miller as Elliot Garfield
Amy Pietz as Paula McFadden
Raini Rodriguez as Lucy
André Sogliuzzo as Multiple Roles
Inger Tudor as Mrs. Crosby & Others
Matthew Wolf as Mark Bodine & Others
Adam Wylie as Multiple Roles
Associate Artistic Director: Anna Lyse Erikson
Recording Engineer, Sound Designer, Mixer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood
Music Supervisor: Ronn Lipkin
Sound Effects Artist: Jeff Gardner
Production Manager: Katie Friesen
Editor: Mitchell Lindskoog
Assistant Engineer: Julian Nicholson"
"Anna Ziegler's Boy is a powerful statement about sexual identity and the mystery of what makes us who we are. After a baby boy is seriously injured in an accident, a doctor persuades his parents to raise the child as a girl. As the child grows up, the child-known as Samantha and Adam at different times-faces an extraordinary challenge to carve out a place in the world.
An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:
Sarah Drew as Jenny
John Getz as Dr. Wendell Barnes
Travis Johns as Doug
Amy Pietz as Trudy
Bobby Steggert as Adam Turner
Directed by Debbie Devine. Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in July of 2016.
Boy is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world."
"Within the walls of Truvy’s beauty shop are six women whose lives increasingly hinge on the existence of one another. Together, they absorb the passing seasons, just like the weathered wooden structure of the salon “home” that they share.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production, starring Frances Fisher, Jeanie Hackett, Shannon Holt, Amy Pietz, Brittany Snow, Jocelyn Towne. Additional voices by Josh Clark.
Directed by Jessica Kubzansky and recorded before an audience by L.A. Theatre Works."
"As a young Jewish man in 17th century Amsterdam, Baruch de Spinoza excelled as a theological student; but as he encountered free-thinking Protestants, atheists, and radicals in this relatively tolerant city, he began to question his religion and the nature of God. As a result, he was branded a heretic and faced excommunication.
Includes an interview with Steven Nadler, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and author of A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age.
Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, in July 2011.
Director: Rosalind Ayres
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
An L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring:
Edward Asner as Abraham van Valkenburgh
Richard Easton as Saul Levi Mortera
Andrea Gabriel as Clara
Arye Gross as Ben Israel
Amy Pietz as Rebekah
James Wagner as Simon de Vries
Matthew Wolf as Baruch de Spinoza
Associate Producer: Christina Montaño
Recording Engineer/Sound Designer/Editor: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood
Sound Effects Artist: Tony Palermo"
"Fasten your seatbelts for a rapid-fire, sophisticated thrill-ride that propels you through one of the most infamous financial scandals in history! With a spicy blend of humor, pathos and music, the big biz machinations of Kenneth Lay, Jeffrey Skilling and Andy Fastow are laid bare as razzle-dazzle entertainment. Lucy Prebble's Enron casts a shocking new light on today's economy and how we got here.
Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in October of 2010.
Director: Rosalind Ayres
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
Chris Butler as Trader/Geek/Others
Jackie Emerson as Voice of the Daughter
Greg Germann as Andrew Fastow
Pamela J. Gray as Sheryl Sloman/Elyse Deluca/Irene Grant
Gregory Itzin as Kenneth Lay
Kasey Mahaffy as Trader/Employee/Others
Jon Matthews as Trader/Arthur Andersen/Lehman Brother/Judge
Julia Mcilvaine as Gayle Davenport/Others
Amy Pietz as Claudia Roe
Russell Soder as Trader/Grubman/Others Steven Weber as Jeffrey Skilling
Kenneth Alan Williams as Lawyer/Others
Matthew Wolf as Employee/Trader/Others
Associate Producers: Christina Montaño, Jennifer Brooks
Recording Engineer/Sound Designer/Editor: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood
Foley Artist: Theresa Arrison
Music Supervisor: Scott Willis
Original music composed by Adam Cork and musical direction by Dale von Seggern"
"A four part comedy confection as only Neil Simon can write it! Four couples arrive, in turn, from London, Philadelphia, Chicago and New York and separately inhabit a Beverly Hills hotel suite, bringing along their problems, anxieties, and comical marital dilemmas. Beverly Hills will never be the same.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Dennis Boutsikaris, Bruce Davison, Marsha Mason and Amy Pietz.
“Visitor From New York”
Marsha Mason as Hannah Warren
Bruce Davison as William Warren
“Visitor From Philadelphia”
Dennis Boutsikaris as Marvin Michaels
Amy Pietz as Millie Michaels
“Visitors From London”
Marsha Mason as Sidney Nichols
Bruce Davison as Diana Nichols
“Visitors From Chicago”
Dennis Boutsikaris as Mort Hollender
Amy Pietz as Beth Hollender
Bruce Davison as Stu Franklyn
Marsha Mason as Gert Franklyn
Directed by Gwenn Victor. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles."
"Chekhov's masterful last play, The Cherry Orchard, is a work of timeless, bittersweet beauty about the fading fortunes of an aristocratic Russian family and their struggle to maintain their status in a changing world. Alternately touching and farcical, this subtle, intelligent play stars the incomparable Marsha Mason. Translated and adapted by Frank Dwyer and Nicholas Saunders.
Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.
Directed by Rosalind Ayres
Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg
Marsha Mason as Madame Lyubov Andreyevna Ranyevskaya
Hector Elizondo as Leonid Andreyevich Gayev
Michael Cristofer as Yermolay Alekseyevich Lopakhin
Jennifer Tilly as Dunyasha (Avdotya Fyodorovna)
Joey Slotnick as Semyon Panteleyevich Yepikhodov
Christy Keefe as Anya Ranyevskaya
Amy PIetz as Varya Ranyevskaya
Jordan Baker as Charlotta Ivanovna
Jeffrey Jones as Boris Borisovich Semyonov-Pischick
Charles Durning as Feers
Tim DeKay as Pyotr Sergeyevich Trofimov
John Chardiet as Passer-By
Sound Effects Artist/Stage Manager: Jane Slater
Assistant Stage Manager: Cary Thompson
Radio Producer: Raymond Guarna
Associate Producer: Susan Raab"
"The Trial of Alger Hiss, The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, The Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer. At the height of the cold War, American democracy was challenged by the anti-Communist atmosphere of the McCarthy era. In the Name of Security re-opens three famous spy cases that rocked America between 1948 and 1954: Alger Hiss, Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, and J. Robert Oppenheimer. Each hour-long program combines dramatic re-enactments based on original trial transcripts, archival material, new evidence, the latest assessments of American historians and scientists, and the commentaries of relatives and friends of the accused.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring John de Lancie, William Frankfather, Arthur Hanket, Ella Joyce, Richard Hoyt Miller, David Hyde Pierce, Amy Pietz, Tom Virtue and Alan Wilder,"
