With an all-star cast including Stacy Keach, Helen Hunt, Edward Asner, Ted Danson and Richard Dreyfuss, this epic of the booming 1920s uniquely captures the relentless culture of American business. Babbitt is a true classic about conformity in small-town America, celebrated for its comic tone, satire, and vivid dialogue. Based on Sinclair Lewis's novel, first published in 1922. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance with Edward Asner as George F. Babbitt, and featuring: René Auberjonois, Bonnie Bedelia, Ed Begley Jr., Georgia Brown, Roscoe Lee Browne, Jack Coleman, Bud Cort, Ted Danson, William Devane, Richard Dreyfuss, Héctor Elizondo, Fionnula Flanagan, Robert Foxworth, Harry Hamlin, Julie Harris, Helen Hunt, Amy Irving, Stacy Keach, John Lithgow, Nan Martin, Marsha Mason, Richard Masur, Marian Mercer, Joanna Miles, Holly Palance, Judge Reinhold, Franklyn Seales, David Selby, Ally Sheedy, Madolyn Smith, James Whitmore, JoBeth Williams and Michael York. Directed by Gordon Hunt.

Babbitt

Literature & Fiction

Sinclair, Lewis

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Chekhov's masterful last play 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.  An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:  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 Jon Chardiet as Yasha/Passer-By Tim DeKay as Pyotr Sergeyevich Trofimov  Translated and adapted by Frank Dwyer and Nicholas Saunders. Directed by Rosalind Ayres.  Recorded before a live audience.

Cherry Orchard, The

ANTON CHEKHOV

Death of a Salesman

ARTHUR MILLER

Nora Helmer has everything a young housewife could want: beautiful children, an adoring husband, and a bright future. But when a carelessly buried secret rises from the past, Nora's well-calibrated domestic ideal starts to crumble. Ibsen's play is as fresh today as it was when it first stormed the stages of 19th-century Europe.An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:Calista Flockhart as Nora HelmerTony Abatemarco as Dr. RankTim DeKay as Torvald HelmerJeannie Elias as Anne-Marie/HeleneGregory Itzin as Nils KrogstadJoBeth Williams as Mrs. LindeTranslated by Rolf Fjelde. Recorded before a live audience.

Doll House, A

Henrik, Ibsen

Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018
Set during the Great Depression, The Grapes of Wrath tells the powerful story of the Joad family’s trek from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the promise of a new life in California. But what they find threatens to rip apart their lives, and sever the ties that bind them together. A heart-wrenching full-cast adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by John Steinbeck and a 1990 Tony Award® Winner for Best Play, Frank Galati’s play finds its timeless heart in the generous spirit of the common man.
An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:
Shirley Knight as Ma Joad Jeffrey Donovan as Tom Joad Emily Bergl as Rose of Sharon Michael Buie as Connie/Others Daniel Chacón as Al Joad Maurice Chasse as Deputy Sheriff/Others Shannon Cochran as Mrs. Wainwright/Elizabeth Sandry Trista Delamere as 2nd Narrator/Al’s Girl Francis Guinan as Jim Casy Charlie Matthes as Willy/Gas Station Attendant/Hooper Ranch Guard Rod McLachlan as Uncle John Robert Pescovitz as Pa Joad Joel Rafael as Car Salesman/Man with Guitar Stephen Ramsey as 1st Narrator/Others Nicholas Sadler as Agricultural Officer/Others Andy Taylor as Gas Station Owner/Floyd Knowles/Camp Director/Others Todd Waring as Hooper Ranch Bookkeeper/Others Fredd Wayne as Grampa/Mayor of Hooverville/Camp Guard Michael Weston as Noah Joad/Others Kate Williamson as Gramma/Others
Live music performed by the Joel Rafael Band. Adapted by Frank Galati. Directed by Richard Masur.
Recorded before a live audience.

Grapes of Wrath, The

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This final play from the pen of Oscar Wilde is a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a lost handbag. Jack and Algernon are best friends, both wooing ladies who think their names are Ernest, "that name which inspires absolute confidence." Wilde's effervescent wit, scathing social satire, and high farce make this one of the most cherished plays in the English language.  An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:  James Marsters as Jack Charles Busch as Lady Bracknell Emily Bergl as Cecily Neil Dickson as Lane and Merriman Jill Gascoine as Miss Prism Christopher Neame as Chasuble Matthew Wolf as Algernon Sarah Zimmerman as Gwendolen  Directed by Michael Hackett. Recorded before a live audience.  Includes an interview with director Michael Hackett, Professor of Theater in the School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA.

Importance of Being Earnest, The

Oscar, Wilde

Based on Ernest J. Gaines' National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, Romulus Linney's A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsely convicted of murder and is sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, the plantation schoolteacher, agrees to talk with the condemned man. The disheartened Wiggins had once harbored dreams of escaping from his impoverished youth, yet he returned to his home town after university, to teach children whose lives seemed as unpromising as Jefferson's. The two men forge a bond as they come to understand what it means to resist and defy one's own fate.
An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:
Rick Foucheux as Paul Bonin
Keith Glover as Grant Wiggins
Jamahl Marsh as Jefferson
Linda Powell as Vivian Baptiste
Jefferson A. Russell as Reverend Moses Ambrose
Jerry Whiddon as Sam Guidry
Beatrice Winde as Emma Glenn
Directed by Nick Olcott. Recorded at Voice of America in Washington D.C.

Lesson Before Dying, A

Ernest J.Gaines

Lost in Yonkers

Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize and Tony® Award-winning play. Set in Yonkers, New York in 1942, two boys, aged 13 and 16, must spend one year with their austere and demanding grandmother. While the war rages in Europe, Jay and Arty learn the ropes from Uncle Louie and assorted relatives, all peculiar characters.An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:Barbara Bain as Grandma KurnitzGia Carides as GertDan Castellaneta as LouieBen Diskin as JayArye Gross as EddieRoxanne Hart as BellaKenneth Schmidt as ArtyDirected by John Rubinstein. Recorded before a live audience by L.A. Theatre Works.

Neil SIMON

M. Butterfly

John Lithgow and B. D. Wong recreate their original roles from the Tony® Award-winning production of David Henry Hwang's play. Inspired by an actual espionage scandal, a French diplomat discovers the startling truth about his Chinese mistress.An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance starring:Margaret Cho as Comrade Chin/Suzuki/Shu-FangDavid Dukes as M. Toulon/Man/JudgeJoanna Frank as HelgaArye Gross as Marc/Man/Consul SharplessKathryn Layng as Renee/Woman at Party/GirlJohn Lithgow as Rene GallimardB.D. Wong as Song LilingDirected by Steve Albrezzi. Recorded before a live audience by L.A. Theatre Works."Hearing two such accomplished actors in parts they have mastered is a rare treat...L.A. Theatre Works is producing radio drama to rival the quality work of the BBC." ―AudioFile Magazine

David Henry Hwang

Macbeth

Infamously known as the cursed "Scottish play", Macbeth is perhaps Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy. When General Macbeth is foretold by three witches that he will one day be King of Scotland, Lady Macbeth convinces him to get rid of anyone who could stand in his way―including committing regicide. As Macbeth ascends to the throne through bloody murder, he becomes a tyrant consumed by fear and paranoia.  An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:  James Marsters as Macbeth Joanne Whalley as Lady Macbeth Josh Cooke as Banquo and others JD Cullum as Macduff/Second Murderer Dan Donohue as Ross Jeannie Elias as Second Witch/Others Chuma Hunter-Gault as Lennox/Servant Jon Matthews as Malcolm Alan Shearman as Angus/Others André Sogliuzzo as Donalbain/Third Witch/Others Kate Steele as Lady Macduff/First Witch/Apparition Kristoffer Tabori as Duncan/Others  Directed by Martin Jarvis. Recorded at The Invisible Studios in West Hollywood, CA.

William. Shakespeare

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