The Drama & Plays category has 329 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.3★ across 648 ratings. The most-rated is Girls & Boys.
The Divine Sister
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A crumbling convent school is on the verge of insolvency, when a young postulant begins to display strange heavenly powers. And when a dashing film executive arrives to buy the rights to her story, the Reverend Mother refuses to put profits over prayer. Playwright Charles Busch made his name with genre-skewering hits like Psycho Beach Party, Die Mommie Die, and The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, which L.A. Theatre Works recorded in 2007. This time around, we present Busch's high-voltage spoof of religious melodramas, starring three of the principal players from its original 2010 Off-Broadway run. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Emily Bergl as Agnes, Charles Busch as Mother Superior, Maxwell Caulfield as Jeremy/Brother Venerius, Alison Fraser as Sister Walburga/Mrs. MacDuffie,Julie Halston as Sister Acacius/Juliet Mills/ Mrs. Levinson/Timothy Directed by Carl Andress. Recorded by L.A. Theatre Works before a live audience.
©2011 Charles Busch (P)2013 L.A. Theatre Works
Dancing Lessons
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Dancing Lessons centers on Ever, a young man with Asperger's syndrome who seeks the instruction of a Broadway dancer to learn enough dancing to survive an awards dinner. The dancer, Senga, however, is recovering from an injury that may stop her dancing career permanently. As their relationship unfolds, they're both caught off-guard by the discoveries - both hilarious and heartwarming - that they make about each other and about themselves. Directed by Julianne Boyd.
©2015 Mark St. Germain (P)2017 Roven Records Spoken Word
God's Man in Texas
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A pointed look at organized, merchandised religion; the dangers of pride and ambition; the battes for power between generations; and the redemptive power of faith. A face off for control between a legendary Baptist pastor and an ambitious young preacher. Performed by a full cast including Robert Pescovitz, Morgan Sheppard, and Andy Taylor.
(P)2001 L.A. Theatre Works
Study Guide for William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
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©2020 Course Hero (P)2020 Course Hero
Five Short Stories by Women
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L.A. Theatre Works presents Five Short Stories by Women: A quintet of tales from some of America’s most distinguished female authors. "Life after High School", by Joyce Carol Oates, read by Sarah Drew: Oates takes us to a time in the late 1950s, to South Lebanon High School, and shows us the lives of three people at a time of self-discovery. "The Banks of the Vistula", by Rebecca Lee, read by Emily Bergl: An ambitious student wants desperately to make her mark in a linguistics class. Published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill ©2013. "Never Marry a Mexican", by Sandra Cisneros, read by Rita Moreno: The story of a woman named Clemencia who remembers her family, her parents' culture, and her affair with a married man.* "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried", by Amy Hempel, read by Lynn Collins: What do you say to someone on their deathbed? Amy Hempel addresses this question head-on, as a young woman describes her visit to a dying friend. "Once Upon a Time", by Nadine Gordimer, read by Alex Kingston: This is anything but a fairy tale. It’s more of a dystopian fantasy - with overtones of the racial inequality in Gordimer’s native South Africa. *From WOMAN HOLLERING CREEK. Copyright © 1991 by Sandra Cisneros. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Vintage Books and by Vintage Español as EL ARROYO DE LA LLORONA, translation, © 1996 by Liliana Valenzuela. Available on Random House Audiobook read by the author. By permission of Susan Bergholz Literary Services, New York City and Lamy, N.M. All rights reserved. Mixing Engineer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.
©2016 L.A. Theatre Works (P)2016 L.A. Theatre Works
Die Mommie Die
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Angela Arden wants to be free of her suffocating marriage to film producer Sol Sussman. What better way than poison! Distraught by her father’s death and convinced of her mother’s guilt, Edith Sussman plots to get the truth out of Angela using any means necessary. Charles Busch stars in the role he originated in this camp send-up where tongues aren’t the only thing dipped in acid. Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in May 2019. Directed by Carl Andress With original music and songs by Lewis Flinn Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg Charles Busch as Angela Arden Sussman Mark Capri as Tony Parker Willie Garson as Sol Sussman Ellis Greer as Edith Sussman Jeffery Self as Lance Sussman Ruth Williamson as Bootsie Associate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Recording Engineer, Sound Designer and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Senior Radio Producer, Ronn Lipkin. Foley Artist, Brian Wallace. Production Manager, Zack Myers. Editor, Julian Nicholson. “The Missing Girl” performed by Mary Birdsong, music and lyrics by Lewis Flinn. “The Salt and Pepper Polka” performed by Mary Birdsong, music by Lewis Flinn, lyrics by Dick Gallagher and Charles Busch.
©2019 L.A. Theatre Works (P)2019 L.A. Theatre Works
It's Not a Fair World
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Harry Shearer’s fantasy about a World’s Fair held in Kansas City. Told in quick blackouts, it resembles a profane Simpsons episode. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Fran Adams, David Arnott, Lewis Arquette, James Avery, Hank Azaria, Dan Castellaneta, Timothy Fall, David L. Lander, Tom Leopold, Edie McClurg, Julie Payne, Mary Kay Place, John Randolph, Erika Schickel, Harry Shearer, and Fred Willard. Directed by Harry Shearer. Recorded before a live audience in February 1995.
©2012 L.A. Theatre Works (P)2012 L.A. Theatre Works
Work Song - Three Views of Frank Lloyd Wright
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In Work Song, tensions between master architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his tempestuous relationships are explored in this uniquely prismatic view of one of the great architects of the modern era. This engaging production includes a panel discussion with Wright biographer Harold Zellman. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Jim Beaver, Amy Brenneman, Chris Butler, Matthew Patrick Davis, Sean Dougherty, Robert Foxworth, Charles Janasz, Kathryn Meisle, Kali Rocha, and Raphael Sbarge.
©2007 Jeffery Hatcher & Eric Simonson (P)2007 L.A. Theatre Works
Linge Sale
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Le soir. Une laverie automatique, le propriétaire s’apprête à fermer. Entre alors un homme et la conversation s’installe. Une laverie ! Drôle d’endroit pour une drôle de rencontre. En effet, tout oppose ces deux hommes : l’un âgé, l’autre jeune, l’un spécialiste du blanc et des couleurs, l’autre regardant une machine à laver comme une poule regarde un couteau, l’un rationnel et concret, l’autre chien fou et rêveur. S’installe alors entre les deux une joute oratoire décapante où chacun "vide son sac". Tous les sujets qu’ils vont aborder donneront lieu à des affrontements : les femmes, les journaux, le linge, les mots croisés le commerce et…un sujet "hautement philosophique" : l’existence de l’homme sur la terre ! La voisine, pédicure de son état, un jogger hystérique et une blonde mystérieuse viendront troubler leurs débats. Pendant que les machines à laver tournent, tout ce petit monde va "laver son linge sale en famille". Texte de Jean-Claude Grumberg, Mise en scène de Philippe Person. Avec Emmanuel Barrouyer, Jean-Pierre Bernard, Denis Leroy, Philippe Person et Anne Priol. >> Cet enregistrement original vous est proposé en exclusivité par Audible et est uniquement disponible en téléchargement.
©2006 Editions L'Harmattan (P)2006 Editions L'Harmattan
La fausse suivante
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Travestie en chevalier à l'occasion d'un bal masqué, une riche orpheline découvre sous ce déguisement les motivations - peu reluisantes - de Lélio, le jeune homme qui doit devenir son époux. Désormais, sa vengeance est en marche, et avec elle son lot de férocités et de désillusions. La Fausse Suivante est une initiation : celle d'une jeune fille qui, sous le masque, découvre ce qu'elle éprouve autant que ce qu'elle suscite. L'initiation est ici sociale, humaine et sexuelle. Tirant les fils de l'identité, de l'apprentissage, du désir et du pouvoir, Marivaux, dans une langue jubilatoire qui met en tension permanente les mots et les corps, nous invite à reconsidérer quelques-unes de nos idées reçues. >> Ce livre audio en version intégrale vous est proposé en exclusivité par Audible et est uniquement disponible en téléchargement.
©Domaine public (P)2015 l'Harmattan
Under Milk Wood (Dramatised)
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A classic BBC Radio full-cast production of Dylan Thomas' poetic play for voices starring Richard Burton as the narrator. To begin at the beginning: it is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black....
When Richard Burton breathed the opening words of Under Milk Wood into a microphone, broadcasting history was made. For this ‘play for voices’ conjures up the intimate dreams and waking lives of the inhabitants of a Welsh seaside village in a remarkable way. It is bawdy and beautiful; its colourful characters lust and love, gossip and fantasise. Through the magic of language, 'Under Milk Wood' creates a rich modern pastoral which, once heard, touches the listener with its poetry and haunts the imagination for ever. This radio drama is the completed version broadcast in 1963, which includes several passages that were omitted from the first recording in 1954.
©2001 BBC Worldwide (P)2001 BBC Worldwide
I Love Lucy
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The onscreen pairing of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz is at the heart of one of the most popular TV shows in history. Who would have thought that to get on the air, they had to battle both a network and a sponsor who thought the show couldn't possibly succeed? Playwright Gregg Oppenheimer - son of I Love Lucy’s creator Jess Oppenheimer - spins the hilarious true story behind America’s beloved TV comedy. Directed by Michael Hackett. Includes an interview with playwright Gregg Oppenheimer. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production, starring (in alphabetical order): Ron Bottitta as William S. Paley, William Frawley, and others; Seamus Dever as Jess Oppenheimer; Sarah Drew as Lucille Ball; Abigail Marks as Vivian Vance, Betty Garrett, and others; Matthew Floyd Miller as Don Sharpe, Bob LeMond, and others; Rob Nagle as Hubbell Robinson and others; Oscar Nunez as Desi Arnaz; and Nick Toren as Harry Ackerman. Music performed by Doug Walter. The I Love Lucy theme song used with permission of MPL Music Publishing and Songwriters Guild of America. Original music by Doug Walter. Sound Effects Artist, Aaron Lyons. Production Manager, Rick V. Moreno. Script Supervisor, Nikki Hyde. Senior Radio Producer, Ronn Lipkin. Associate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Editor, Mitchell Lindskoog. Recording Engineer, Sound Designer, and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood Recorded before an audience at UCLA's James Bridges Theater.
©2018 Gregg Oppenheimer (P)2018 L.A. Theatre Works
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Tartuffe [French Version]
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Le Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur est une comédie de Molière en cinq actes et en vers créée le 5 février 1669 sur la scène du Théâtre du Palais-Royal. Orgon est l'archétype du personnage de cour tombé sous la coupe de Tartuffe, un hypocrite et un faux dévot. Il est, ainsi que sa mère, Madame Pernelle, dupe de Tartuffe. Ce dernier réussit à le manipuler en singeant la dévotion et il est même parvenu à devenir son directeur de conscience. Il se voit proposer d'épouser la fille de son bienfaiteur, alors même qu'il tente de séduire Elmire, la femme d'Orgon, plus jeune que son mari. Démasqué grâce à un piège tendu par cette dernière afin de convaincre son mari de l'hypocrisie de Tartuffe, Tartuffe veut ensuite chasser Orgon de chez lui grâce à une donation inconsidérée que celui-ci lui a faite de ses biens. En se servant de papiers compromettants qu'Orgon lui a remis, il va le dénoncer au Roi. Erreur fatale : le Roi a conservé son affection à celui qui l'avait jadis bien servi lors de la Fronde. Il lui pardonne et c'est Tartuffe qui est arrêté. "Mais où sont les neiges d'antan... Cueillez dès aujourd'hui les roses de la vie... Madame se meurt, madame est morte... Il neigeait, il neigeait toujours...". Les pages qu'il faut connaître, parce qu'elles font partie intégrante du patrimoine de la France, que les jeunes par conséquent ont à apprendre - et y a-t-il procédé plus séduisant et plus efficace que d'entendre ces pages enregistrées dans la plus pieuse fidélité au génie créateur ? Les pages qu'il faut connaître... et qu'en fait tant de Français et d'étrangers connaissent et savent par cœur ! Y aura-t-il pour ceux-ci émotion plus profonde que de réentendre ces textes essentiels, confiés à la voix de nos plus célèbres interprètes ?
©2017 Compagnie du Savoir (P)2017 Compagnie du Savoir
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Ashadh ka Ek Din [Free One Day]
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This Hindi play by Mohan Rakesh debuted in 1958 and is considered the first modern Hindi play. The play received a Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for best play in 1959. Before this play was written, Hindi plays were either idealistic or didactic, devoid of any connection with contemporary reality; above all their language remained the language of literature, which wasn't suitable for the stage. This play changed it all. Mohan Rakesh went on to write two more plays and left one unfinished at the time of his death in 1972. Please note: This audiobook is in Hindi.
©1958 Rajpal & Sons (P)2019 Audible, Inc.
Behind the Sheet
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An important medical breakthrough has a shameful history. In 1840s Alabama, a slave-owning doctor performs medical experiments on involuntary subjects - enslaved women - in an effort to solve the problem of fistulas, a post-childbirth anomaly. As the experiments proceed, and he gets close to a solution, the women try to survive and even find dignity in the face of inhuman treatment. Includes conversations with playwright Charly Evon Simpson and Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in August 2019. Behind the Sheet is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world. Directed by Rosalind Ayres, Inger Tudor Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg Monica McSwain as Mary Matthew Floyd Miller as Samuel and Edward Dominique Morisseau as Dinah Larry Powell as Lewis and Benjamin Devon Sorvari as Josephine Jasmine St. Clair as Betty Josh Stamberg as George Danielle Moné Truitt as Sally Karen Malina White as Philomena Narrated by Inger Tudor Associate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Sound Designer and Mixing Engineer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Senior Radio Producer, Ronn Lipkin. Foley Artist, Jeff Gardner. Recording Engineer and Editor: Neil Wogensen.
©2020 L.A. Theatre Works (P)2020 L.A. Theatre Works
Just Between Ourselves
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The first of Ayckbourn's darkly comic masterpieces involves a relentlessly cheerful handyman in a disastrously fractured marriage. Two couples develop an unlikely friendship in this painfully funny portrait of British suburban life.
©2009 L.A. Theatre Works (P)2009 L.A. Theatre Works
Dinner with Friends
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Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for drama, Dinner with Friends examines the lives of two couples and the repercussions of divorce on their friendship. With wit, compassion, and consummate skill, playwright Donald Margulies weighs the costs of breaking up...and of staying together. Starring (in alphabetical order): Matthew Arkin as Gabe, Lisa Emery as Karen, Kevin Kilner as Tom, Dierdre O'Connell as Beth.
(P)2003 L.A. Theatre Works
The Hoyden (Dramatized)
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Impetuous Lady Martha and her sister, Lady Julia, are shy country girls, come to London to be presented to Society by their Aunt Maybelle, the Duchess - and, if the Duchess has her way, to marry well. However, the plain-spoken sisters are ill-prepared to cope with the circumspectly courteous demands of city life and High Society. Will Lady Martha survive her encounter with Lord Peter Thornham with her reputation intact, or will his rakish reputation soil another family's good name? Can quiet Lady Julia rescue her sister from the fate that awaits her, with the aid of the foppish Lord Edward Toffington? Will the London social scene ever be the same? Will the Duchess? After all, once one's reputation is already in tatters, one may do and say as one thinks... This is an original, full cast, fully sound-scaped audio dramatization.
©1995 Atlanta Radio Theatre Company (P)1995 Atlanta Radio Theatre Company
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Dom Juan [French Version]
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La pièce donne à suivre les deux dernières journées de la vie de Dom Juan Tenorio, libertin grand amateur de femmes, flanqué tout au long des cinq actes de son fidèle valet Sganarelle, couard, gourmand et amateur de disputes intellectuelles. Provocateur impénitent, Dom Juan n'échappera pas à la vengeance du Ciel, qui le châtiera par le bras d'une statue de pierre. Pièce où se mêlent tous les registres, du pur comique au sérieux, voire au tragique, elle est accueillie avec enthousiasme par le public parisien, mais fait l'objet d'une violente attaque au lendemain de sa création et ne sera jamais reprise ni imprimée du vivant de son auteur. Délaissée jusqu’au milieu du XIXème siècle au profit de la version en vers que la veuve et les compagnons de Molière avaient commandée à Thomas Corneille en 1676, elle fut peu représentée jusqu'à ce qu'en 1947 et 1953, Louis Jouvet puis Jean Vilar la fassent redécouvrir au grand public. Elle est aujourd'hui considérée, à l'égal du Tartuffe et du Misanthrope, comme l'un des chefs-d'œuvre de Molière et de la dramaturgie classique française. Comédie en 5 actes. Enregistrement de 1954, avec Jean Vilar, Daniel Sorano, Georges Wilson, Philippe Noiret, Jean-Pierre Darras, Monique Chaumette. Le génie comique de Molière n'a pas pris une ride. Cet auteur sait corriger les mœurs par le rire, pointer les travers de nos contemporains avec justesse, et les thèmes de ses œuvres n'ont pas pris une ride, quelques centaines d'années après leur création.
©Domaine public (P)2014 Compagnie du Savoir
On ne badine pas avec l'amour
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On ne badine pas avec l'amour est l'une des pièces les plus célèbres d'Alfred de Musset, et le premier de ses "proverbes". Ecrite en 1833, alors qu'il a tout juste vingt-trois ans, elle porte les traces de sa relation tumultueuse avec la romancière George Sand. Elle fait aujourd'hui partie des pièces Romantiques les plus jouées de par le monde, reprise par les metteurs en scène et les interprètes les plus prestigieux. Source d'inspiration pour les dramaturges, on en retrouve des échos jusque dans le cinéma ( Entré des artistes de Marc Allégret en 1938 ou encore A nos amours de Maurice Pialat en 1983). Avec :< ul> Jean-Pierre Aumont : Perdican ; Jacqueline Morane : Camille ; Pauline Carton : Dame Pluche ; Raymond Souplex : Blazius ; Pierre Bertin : Le baron ; Pierre Larquey : Un vieux paysan ; Robert Vattier : Maître Bridaine ; Madeline Dalavaivre : Rosette ; Jean Pemeja : Un paysan ; E. Gautier : Un paysan ; Mise en scène : P. Petit. Réalisation : Max de Rieux.
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