Edward Asner has narrated 28 audiobooks on Listento.it by 26 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.3★ across 482 ratings. The most-rated is The Complete Conversations with God.
Mastergate
Summary
The Tony Award-winning playwright and creator of TV's MASH has fashioned a wickedly funny satire about the Iran-Contra Senate hearings and their participants. A top-notch Hollywood cast, headed by Walter Matthau, brings this scathing comedy to life.
(P)2004 L.A. Theatre Works
The Woman Who Laughed
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Nell Ryder is a sardonic and urbane school teacher transplanted to small-town Michigan in Joyce Carol Oates’ play. But when she gets into a dispute with an aggrieved parent, Nell finds herself accused of impropriety with one of her adolescent charges. A BBC co-production. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: Edward Asner as Towers, Lindsay Crouse as Madge, Ethan Glazer as Joey Eaton, Harold Gould as Pitts, Kaitlin Hopkins as Nell, Gary Kroeger as Gil, Jarrett Lennon as Billy, Lana McKissack as Darlene, Marian Mercer as Mrs. Eaton, Tom Virtue as Tuttle. Directed by Gordon House. Recorded before a live audience at the KCRW Studios, Santa Monica in September of 1994.
©1994 Joyce Carol Oates (P)1994 L.A. Theatre Works
Scat
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Mrs. Bunny Starch, the most feared biology teacher ever, was last seen during a field trip to Black Vine Swamp. The school's headmaster and the police seem to have accepted the sketchy, unsigned note explaining that her absence is due to a family emergency. Theres no real evidence of foul play. But still, Nick and Marta don't buy it. Something weird is definitely going on. Carl Hiaasen is a columnist for the Miami Herald and is the author of many best-selling titles, including Sick Puppy, Nature Girl, and The Downhill Lie.
©2009 Carl Hiaasen (P)2009 Listening Library
Gulf War and Black
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Gulf War and Black are two one-act plays by acclaimed American author Joyce Carol Oates.Gulf War: An affluent young couple entertains an older couple for an evening of cocktails and politics during the Gulf War. But as the evening continues, the conversation take a bizarre and absurd tone.Black: In this evening of cocktails and dinner, a couple anxiously awaits the arrival of an ex-husband. As the wine glass are drained, the evening becomes dark and intense, revealing the true colors of the characters in this eerie love triangle.This full cast production stars: Edward Asner, Stephanie Dunnam, Rif Hutton, Nan Martin, and Joe Spano.
(P)1993 L.A. Theatre Works; All Rights Reserved
The Southpaw
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Coming of age in America by way of the baseball diamond, left-hander Henry Wiggen grows to manhood in a right-handed world. From his small-town beginnings to the top of the game, Henry finds out how hard it is to please his coach, his girl, the sports page and himself - all at once. The first installation of a series which includes Bang the Drum Slowly, The Southpaw is a comic and poignant look at Henry Wiggen's first season in the majors. This full-cast production features Edward Asner, Kate Asner, Henry Harris, Ron West, Amy Pietz, Earl Brown, Armando Ortega, Rugg Williams, Eric Winzenried, Evan Gore, and Tom Virtue.
(P)1996 L.A. Theatre Works; All Rights Reserved
Forty-Two Stories
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Forty-Two Stories by Douglas Post is a comedy about life in a high-rise condominium. A professional student from the University of Chicago is moonlighting as janitor. A stressed-out apartment manager is at odds with the residents and on the edge of a nervous breakdown. And a motley assortment of other staff members struggles with survival in the face of urban pandemonium and with the fact that one of them may be breaking into the units and stealing women’s underwear. A Next Theatre co-production. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: Edward Asner as Frank Rengin Altay as Demetra Jane Blass as Alice Kyle Colerider-Krugh as Zackary Sam Macy as Sergio Mike Nussbaum as Gunter Morocco Omari as Timothy David M. Pasquesi as Ed Steve Pickering as Ross Directed by Susan Booth. Recorded before a live audience at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, Skokie in June of 1998.
(P)1997 L.A. Theatre Works, All Rights Reserved
The Undecided Molecule
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From the imagination of radio pioneer Norman Corwin comes one of the strangest trials in the history of jurisprudence. A molecule refuses to be assigned to any particular substance and insists on choosing for itself. Starring Edward Asner, Carl Reiner, Charlie Robinson, and Erika Schickel. Written and directed by Norman Corwin.
©2015 L.A. Theatre Works (P)2015 L.A. Theatre Works
Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1, Volume 2
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Suppose you could ask God the most puzzling questions about existence, and God would provide clear, understandable answers? It happened to Neale Donald Walsch. Conversations with God is Walsch's account of his direct conversations with God, beginning in 1992 while Walsch was immersed in a period of deep depression. He composed a letter to God in which he vented his frustrations, and much to his surprise, even shock, God answered him. Focusing on the universal truths that influence all life, Conversations with God offers a picture of the way life could be better. The dialogue challenges us to push past the imagined boundaries of what we believe ourselves capable of and look instead to all that we can attain as cocreators with God. Neale Donald Walsch lives with his wife, Nancy, in southern Oregon. Together they have formed ReCreation, a nonprofit foundation for personal growth and spiritual understanding with the goal of giving people back to themselves. Walsch lectures and hosts workshops throughout the country to support and spread the messages contained in Conversations with God. Awardwinning actor Edward Asner is best known for the television series Lou Grant. Ellen Burstyn's film roles have established her as one of the greatest modern actresses.
©1995 Neale Donald Walsch (P)2007 Phoenix Books