Rengin Altay has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 5 authors. The most-rated is The King of Confidence.
Buying Time
Summary
Based on a real-life event, a moneyed client at a progressive law firm pressures the partners to drop a pro bono case they passionately believe in. Will they choose the easy path to preserve their business or keep fighting for what they believe is right? An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance starring: Michael Gross as Bennett Sean Sinitski as Hal and others Bob Adrian as Abe Ned Schmidtke as Del Tony Mockus Jr. as Pete and others Scott Lowell as Carter and Kyle Gary Houston as Max and Laird Suzanne Petri as Margo and Becky Lisa Dodson as Beth Rengin Altay as Christine Scott Heckman as Lane Directed by Brian Russell and recorded before a live audience at the Guest Quarters Suite Hotel in Chicago. A coproduction with Northlight Theatre. Sound effects artist: Scott Heckman. Production stage manager: Jan Watson. Recording engineers: Larry Rock and Chris WIllis. Radio producer: Robert Neuhaus.
©1994 Michael Weller (P)1994 L.A. Theatre Works
Mad and Bad
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Discover a feminist pop history that looks beyond the Ton and Jane Austen to highlight the Regency women who succeeded on their own terms and were largely lost to history - until now. Regency England is a world immortalized by Jane Austen and Lord Byron in their beloved novels and poems. The popular image of the Regency continues to be mythologized by the hundreds of romance novels set in the period, which focus almost exclusively on wealthy, White, Christian members of the upper classes. But there are hundreds of fascinating women who don't fit history books' limited perception of what was historically accurate for early 19th-century England. Women like Dido Elizabeth Belle, whose mother was a slave but was raised by her White father's family in England; Caroline Herschel, who acted as her brother's assistant as he hunted the heavens for comets and ended up discovering eight on her own; Anne Lister, who lived on her own terms with her common-law wife at Shibden Hall; and Judith Montefiore, a Jewish woman who wrote the first English-language kosher cookbook. As one of the owners of the successful romance-only bookstore The Ripped Bodice, Bea Koch has had a front-row seat to controversies surrounding what is accepted as "historically accurate" for the wildly popular Regency period. Following in the popular footsteps of books like Ann Shen's Bad Girls Throughout History, Koch takes the Regency, one of the most loved and idealized historical time periods and a huge inspiration for American pop culture, and reveals the independent-minded, standard-breaking real historical women who lived life on their terms. She also examines broader questions of culture in chapters that focus on the LGBTQ and Jewish communities, the lives of women of color in the Regency, and women who broke barriers in fields like astronomy and paleontology. In Mad and Bad, we look beyond popular perception of the Regency into the even more vibrant, diverse, and fascinating historical truth. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2020 Bea Koch (P)2020 Grand Central Publishing
Northeast Local
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Mickey and Gina are a blue-collar couple with the whole world ahead of them until Mickey's drinking and Gina's unrealized dreams tear them apart. Set against a backdrop of American history from the turbulent '60s through the '80s AIDS crisis, Northeast Local is a bittersweet journey through marriage, divorce, and its aftermath. An L.A. theatre Works full-cast performance, starring Amy Pietz, Kevin Kilner, Judy Blue, Linda Kimbrough, Lusia Strus, Greg Vinkler, Ann Whitney, and Kenny Williams. Directed by Susan V. Booth. Recorded before a live audience by L.A. Theatre Works.
©2015 L.A Theatre Works (P)2015 L.A Theatre Works
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 King of Confidence
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The "unputdownable" (Dave Eggers, National Book award finalist) story of the most infamous American con man you've never heard of: James Strang, self-proclaimed divine king of earth, heaven, and an island in Lake Michigan, "perfect for fans of The Devil in the White City" (Kirkus) A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction A CrimeReads Best True Crime Book of the Year "A masterpiece." (Nathaniel Philbrick) In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, vanished from a rural town in New York. Months later, he reappeared on the Midwestern frontier and converted to a burgeoning religious movement known as Mormonism. In the wake of the murder of the sect's leader, Joseph Smith, Strang unveiled a letter purportedly from the prophet naming him successor, and persuaded hundreds of fellow converts to follow him to an island in Lake Michigan, where he declared himself a divine king. From this stronghold, he controlled a fourth of the state of Michigan, establishing a pirate colony where he practiced plural marriage and perpetrated thefts, corruption, and frauds of all kinds. Eventually, having run afoul of powerful enemies, including the American president, Strang was assassinated, an event that was frontpage news across the country. The King of Confidence tells this fascinating but largely forgotten story. Centering his narrative on this charlatan's turbulent 12 years in power, Miles Harvey gets to the root of a timeless American original: the Confidence Man. Full of adventure, bad behavior, and insight into a crucial period of antebellum history, The King of Confidence brings us a compulsively listenable account of one of the country's boldest con men and the boisterous era that allowed him to thrive. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2020 Miles Harvey (P)2020 Hachette Audio