"Master Harold"...and the Boys is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Academy-Award winner Athol Fugard, one of theatre’s most acclaimed playwrights, finds humor and heartbreak in the friendship of Harold, a 17-year old white boy in 1950’s South Africa, and the two middle aged black servants who raised him. Racism unexpectedly shatters Harold’s childhood and friendships in this absorbing and affecting coming of age play. The play, initially banned from production in South Africa, is a Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding New Play.

Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in May of 2004.

Directed by Stuart K. Robinson

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Leon Addison Brown as Willie

Keith David as Sam

Bobby Steggert as Hally

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Nan and the Lower Body is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of 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.

Hear our interview with playwright Jessica Dickey and LATW Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg.

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This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of 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.

Nan takes a prestigious research position working for Dr. George Papanicolaou, the inventor of the Pap smear. The doctor worries Nan's new husband might distract from their important work, but Nan has a secret that could upend everyone's plans for her.

Includes an interview with playwright Jessica Dickey.

Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in November 2023.  

Directed by Anna Lyse Erikson

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

An L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring:

Shannon Cochran as Mache Papanicolaou

Josh Dallas as Ted Day

Ginnifer Goodwin as Nan Day

Richard Schiff as Dr. George Papanicoloaou

Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson

Prepared for Audio by Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

Recorded, edited, designed, and mixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin

Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner

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This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of 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.

Nan takes a prestigious research position working for Dr. George Papanicolaou, the inventor of the Pap smear. The doctor worries Nan's new husband might distract from their important work, but Nan has a secret that could upend everyone's plans for her.

Includes an interview with playwright Jessica Dickey.

Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in November 2023.  

Directed by Anna Lyse Erikson

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

An L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring:

Shannon Cochran as Mache Papanicolaou

Josh Dallas as Ted Day

Ginnifer Goodwin as Nan Day

Richard Schiff as Dr. George Papanicoloaou

Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson

Prepared for Audio by Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

Recorded, edited, designed, and mixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin

Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner

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This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of 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.

Nan takes a prestigious research position working for Dr. George Papanicolaou, the inventor of the Pap smear. The doctor worries Nan's new husband might distract from their important work, but Nan has a secret that could upend everyone's plans for her.

Includes an interview with playwright Jessica Dickey.

Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in November 2023.  

Directed by Anna Lyse Erikson

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

An L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring:

Shannon Cochran as Mache Papanicolaou

Josh Dallas as Ted Day

Ginnifer Goodwin as Nan Day

Richard Schiff as Dr. George Papanicoloaou

Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson

Prepared for Audio by Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

Recorded, edited, designed, and mixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin

Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner

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This play is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

In Vichy, France, in 1942, nine men are detained under a shadowy pretext. As the tension builds, the men are questioned – are they the sort of people whom the new Nazi regime considers "inferior?"

Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in February 2002.

Directed by Richard Masur

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

An L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring:

Ben Diskin as A Boy

Arye Gross as Bayard, An Electrician

Jamie Hanes as Rom/Police Captain

Andrew Hawkes as A Major

Gregory Itzin as Monceau, An Actor

Robert Lesser as Police Guard/Marchand, A Businessman/Ferrand, A Café Proprietor

Jon Matthews as Lebeau, A Painter

Lawrence Pressman as Von Berg, A Prince

Raphael Sbarge as Leduc, A Doctor

Armin Shimerman as First Detective/Professor Hoffman

Shahar Sorek as A Waiter/Second Detective

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This play is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

On April 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. What happened inside room 306 on the evening of April 3rd is the subject of Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop. Hours after King’s final speech, punctuated by his immortal line, “I’ve been to the mountaintop,” the celebrated Reverend forms an unlikely friendship with a motel maid as they talk into the early hours of what will be his final day.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in May 2016.

Directed by Roger Guenveur Smith

Aja Naomi King as Camae

Larry Powell as Dr. Martin Luther King

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Hear our interview with Kindertransport survivor Hilda Fogelson, recorded in 2013.

Sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

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This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Diane Samuels’ play about families, secrets and survival takes us to the days of the impending Holocaust. As conditions deteriorated in Germany in the 1930s, many tried in vain to escape. But thanks to a British humanitarian effort, about 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and neighboring countries were relocated to live with families in the United Kingdom, while their parents stayed behind. This passage to freedom became known as Kindertransport.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in June 2013.

Directed by Jeanie Hackett

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Jane Kaczmarek as Helga

Hugo Armstrong as Ratcatcher/Others

Shannon Lee Clair as Eva

Angela Paton as Lil

Molly C. Quinn as Faith

Susan Sullivan as Evelyn

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This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Diane Samuels’ play about families, secrets and survival takes us to the days of the impending Holocaust. As conditions deteriorated in Germany in the 1930s, many tried in vain to escape. But thanks to a British humanitarian effort, about 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and neighboring countries were relocated to live with families in the United Kingdom, while their parents stayed behind. This passage to freedom became known as Kindertransport.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in June 2013.

Directed by Jeanie Hackett

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Jane Kaczmarek as Helga

Hugo Armstrong as Ratcatcher/Others

Shannon Lee Clair as Eva

Angela Paton as Lil

Molly C. Quinn as Faith

Susan Sullivan as Evelyn

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