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Title: Smart Choices for the New Century

Author: Jane Anderson

Narrator: Arye Gross, Paul Mercier, Robert Robinson, Erika Schickel

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-10

Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Modern Drama

Publisher's Summary:

Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director Jane Anderson presents four one-act plays: A Seminar for Responsible Living; The Last Time I Saw Her; Earthquake Preparedness; Lynette Has PMS. With unforgettable characters and scathing humor, the stories explore the challenges of life in Los Angeles, from gun violence to earthquakes. These short pieces - whether monologues or mini-plays, traditional narratives, or impressionistic fragments - ask us to consider what we need to take with us into the next hundred years, and what is best left behind. A full-cast performance featuring Arye Gross, Paul Mercier, Robert Robinson, and Erika Schickel.

Editorial Reviews:

In these four one-act plays from Emmy-award winning screenwriter and playwright Jane Anderson recorded before a live audience in Santa Monica, the trials and tribulations of life in Los Angeles take dramatic form. A Seminar for Responsible Living, The Last Time I Saw Her, Earthquake Preparedness, and Lynette Has PMS each capture a different facet of this coastal city's varied personality. Passionate, funny, and touching performances from hot contemporary actors Arye Gross, Paul Mercier, Robert Robinson, and Erika Schickel bring an special magnetism to the plays, with warm audience reactions adding to the feel of being in a packed theater.

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Title: Demons

Author: Robert Brustein

Narrator: Richard Benjamin, Raymond Fox, Jonathan Fried, Jeremy Geidt, Timothy Karcher, John Lathan, Paula Prentiss

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-10

Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Modern Drama

Publisher's Summary:

Demons is a free adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, set in modern times. In Doctor Faustus a learned Doctor of Divinity sells his soul to the devil Mephistophilis for forbidden knowledge.

In Demons, Dr Faustus has become Peter Proud, a professor of Christian values at Harvard Divinity School, and this adaptation also ads a whole new section to the play, with a new character, the heros dead wife, and a new motive behind his quest for knowledge: the desire to resurrect her.

This is a full-cast performance featuring Richard Benjamin, Raymond Fox, Jonathan Fried, Jeremy Geidt, Timothy Karcher, John Lathan, Paula Prentiss, Matt Rauch, and Mark Zeisler.

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Title: Still Waters

Author: Claudia Allen

Narrator: Deanna Dunagan, Joe D. Lauck, Nancy Lollar, Mary Mulligan, Larry Neuman Jr., Barbara June Patterson, Tim Sheridan

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-10

Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Modern Drama

Publisher's Summary:

When there is a shortage of men during World War II in a rural Michigan town, Myrtle decides to become a preacher. She ministers to her community with wit, wisdom, a practical approach, and insights far ahead of her time. But when the war ends, Myrtle must look to her close-knit family for support, as she battles small-town preconceptions that stand in the way of her continuing ministry.

A full-cast performance featuring Deanna Dunagan, Joe D. Lauck, Nancy Lollar,Mary Mulligan, Larry Neuman Jr., Barbara June Patterson, Tim Sheridan, and Meg Thalken.

Editorial Reviews:

In this live recording of the Joseph Jefferson Award-winning play Still Waters, from L.A. Theatre Works, a woman in small-town Michigan takes on the role of a preacher during World War II, only to discover her ministry challenged when the war draws to a close and the men return home. A dynamic performance from Tony award-winning actress Deanna Dunagan makes Myrtle's struggle relatable, while the supporting cast including Joe D. Lauck, Nancy Ollar, and Mary Mulligan all bring energy, humor, and compassion to this thought-provoking play.

Members Reviews:

It's amazing hard luck story

Run, don't walk, to get this and her other of the set. It's amazing hard luck story.

I hope Jennifer Lauck continues to write!!

I absolutely love Jennifer Lauck! My only complaint and the only negative part of my review of Still Waters is that this brings us to the end of Jennifer's story (unless she writes another sequel 30 years from now to show how the rest of her life turns out!). I hope Jennifer continues writing and will perhaps try her hand at fiction. One of the things I most loved about both Blackbird and Still Waters is how they read like a novel. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough yet I was so disappointed when I was done knowing that this completed her story bringing us up to current times. You will find yourself almost disbelieving some of the things that have happened to Jennifer believing that no one could suffer such heartache and still end up as sane and normal as Jennifer is. I have seen Jennifer on Oprah (last year when Blackbird was released) and The Rosie O'Donnell show (this year with Still Waters) and she is a beautiful, intelligent, happily married mother of two (yes, she is expecting - CONGRATULATIONS!) I was able to draw strength and courage from Jennifer's words - If she could survive the horrific things that happened to her and still turn out as wonderful as she has, there's hope for us all!!! Readers of true life stories, biographies, family related issues, and fiction will all find something to lover about Still Waters. It is Jennifer's memoirs yet filled with life lessons and as I said earlier, it reads like a novel. I hope Jennifer continues to write and I will be watching for future releases from this talented, beautiful, inspiring writer.

I can't stop thinking about it.

All I can say is, Wow. I picked up Lauck's first book, "Blackbird" at the library and loved it. So right after I finished it I bought Still Waters. I read it in about 2 days.

A lot happens in her life. A lot happens in many of our lives. But the way Lauck sees things that go on in her life and in the world, are special.

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Title: My Virginia

Author: Darci Picoult

Narrator: Darci Picoult

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-10

Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Modern Drama

Publisher's Summary:

A deeply affecting and genuinely funny journey through the medical juggernaut of DES, and anti-miscarriage drug given to millions of pregnant women and later discovered to cause cancer and reproductive problems in their children. Picoult as journalist and DES daughter reveals the strength of mothers and daughters fighting together for their lives with guts, humor and love. A one-woman performance featuring Darci Picoult.

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Title: With and Without

Author: Jeffrey Sweet

Narrator: Lindsay Crouse, Jill Eikenberry, Tim Halligan, Michael Tucker

Format: Original Recording

Length: 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-10

Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Modern Drama

Publisher's Summary:

It should be a week full of wine, wit, and relaxation. However, Jills husband doesnt show up at a lakeside vacation house, and instead of a holiday, the happily married Mark and Shelly are offered an intimate view of their friends erratic behavior as she tries to cope. The lake is serene, but in the house, old passions bubble to the surface in this "dramedy" about the limits of friendship and marriage. A full-cast performance featuring Lindsay Crouse, Jill Eikenberry, Tim Halligan, and Michael Tucker.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Great play good material for actors to work with

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Title: Broken Eggs

Author: Eduardo Machado

Narrator: Max Casella, Peter Michael Goetz, Valerie Harper, Alexuna Lambros, Anna Sophie Loewenberg, Jonathan Silverman, Joyce Van Patten

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-10

Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Modern Drama

Publisher's Summary:

This painfully funny slice of Cuban-American life in the suburbs is a cross between a Hispanic soap opera and an ethnic comedy with political overtones. This deft play can turn serious or silly in an instant, and youll need a scorecard to keep track of the cascading and frequently arboreous calamities.

A full-cast performance featuring: Max Casella, Peter Michael Goetz, Valerie Harper, Alexuna Lambros, Anna Sophie Loewenberg, Jonathan Silverman, and Joyce Van Patten.

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Title: Fake

Author: Eric Simonson

Narrator: Francis Guinan, Kate Arrington, Coburn Goss, Alan Wilder, Larry Yando

Format: Original Recording

Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-26-10

Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Modern Drama

Publisher's Summary:

Oscar-winning and Tony-nominated writer and director Eric Simonson explores the most famous archeological hoax in history. Alternating between 1914 and 1953, journalists and scientists set out to uncover who planted the Piltdown Man skull. Everyone's a suspect, including legendary Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Kate Arrington, Coburn Goss, Francis Guinan, Alan Wilder and Larry Yando.

Fake 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.

Editorial Reviews:

A slender but entertaining play fictionalizes the Piltdown Man hoax, the supposed "missing link" of human evolution that, 40 years after its discovery, was revealed to be a fake. Scenes from 1914, the year of the discovery, alternate with scenes of 1953, the year of the debunking. The cast and direction are superb, ably concentrating on character and human conflicts rather than science. Francis Guinan of Chicago's amazing Steppenwolfe Theatre Company is a standout as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who may or may not have perpetrated the prank. More interesting than the play itself is a postlude discussion of the incident between producing director Susan Lowenberg and Russell H. Tuttle, professor of anthropology, University of Chicago, whose charm, articulateness, and humor animate the discussion.

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Title: Dear Liar

Author: Jerome Kilty

Narrator: David Ian Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-10

Publisher: One Voice Recordings

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Modern Drama

Publisher's Summary:

This evocative play is the true story of the stormy romance between the playwright Bernard Shaw and the actress, Mrs Patrick Campbell. She first caught Shaw's eye in 1893 when, young and stunningly beautiful, she created a sensation as the heroine of The Second Mrs Tanqueray. Dear Liar offers an intimate portrait of Shaw, providing far more telling clues to his private personality than any of his plays could hope to do.

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Titolo: Casa di bambola [A Doll's House]

Autore: Henrik Ibsen

Narratore: Claudia Giannelli, Teresa Ciampolini

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 1 hr and 56 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 07-21-10

Editore: Club degli Audiolettori

Valutazioni: 1 su 5 su 1 voti

Categoria: Drama & Poetry, Modern Drama

Riepilogo Editore:

Un dramma sulle condizioni e contraddizioni delle donne.

Please note: This audiobook is in Italian.

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Title: Emma's Child

Author: Kristine Thatcher

Narrator: David Darlow, Gary Houston, Jackie Katzman, Tom Mula, Julie Pearl, Mary Poole, Rochelle Richelieu

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-25-10

Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Modern Drama

Publisher's Summary:

Winner of the Susan Smith Backburn Prize honoring women writers worldwide, Emmas Child explores the idea of commitment in a marriage as a parent. Told gently, lovingly, and with unexpected humor, this is the story of a childless couple struggling to decide whether to continue the adoption process when the baby they had hoped for is born severely disabled.

This full-cast production features David Darlow, Gary Houston, Jackie Katzman,Tom Mula, Julie Pearl, Mary Poole, Rochelle Richelieu, Meg Thalken, and Kristine Thatcher.