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Something Wonderful Right Away

The Birth of Second City—America's Greatest Comedy Theater

by Jeffrey Sweet ...

Discover the behind-the-scenes story of how The Second City theater created a generation of world class great actors, directors, and writers.In the late Fifties and Sixties, iconoclastic young rebels in Chicago opened two tiny theaters—The Compass and The Second City—where they satirized politics, religion, and sex. Building scenes by improvising based on audience suggestions turned out to be a ... Read more

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Discover the behind-the-scenes story of how The Second City theater created a generation of world class great actors, directors, and writers.In the late Fifties and Sixties, iconoclastic young rebels in Chicago opened two tiny theaters—The Compass and The Second City—where they satirized politics, religion, and sex. Building scenes by improvising based on audience suggestions turned out to be a
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What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing

by Jeffrey Sweet ...

The art and craft of playwriting as explored in candid conversations with some of the most important contemporary dramatists Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Lynn Nottage, A. R. Gurney, and a host of other major creative voices of the theater discuss the art of playwriting, from inspiration to production, in a volume that marks the tenth anniversary of the Yale Drama Series and the David Charles Horn ... Read more

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The art and craft of playwriting as explored in candid conversations with some of the most important contemporary dramatists Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Lynn Nottage, A. R. Gurney, and a host of other major creative voices of the theater discuss the art of playwriting, from inspiration to production, in a volume that marks the tenth anniversary of the Yale Drama Series and the David Charles Horn
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Something Wonderful Right Away

The Birth of Second City - America's Greatest Comedy Theater

by Jeffrey Sweet ...

Narrated by Peter Berkrot ...

Unabridged

18 hours 53 min

Discover the behind-the-scenes story of how The Second City theater created a generation of world class great actors, directors, and writers.In the late Fifties and Sixties, iconoclastic young rebels in Chicago opened two tiny theaters—The Compass and The Second City—where they satirized politics, religion, and sex. Developing scenes by improvising based on audience suggestions turned out to be a ... Read more

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Discover the behind-the-scenes story of how The Second City theater created a generation of world class great actors, directors, and writers.In the late Fifties and Sixties, iconoclastic young rebels in Chicago opened two tiny theaters—The Compass and The Second City—where they satirized politics, religion, and sex. Developing scenes by improvising based on audience suggestions turned out to be a
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I Sent a Letter to My Love

A Musical

by Melissa Manchester, Jeffrey Sweet ...

Narrated by Melissa Manchester, Stephen Bogardus, Meagan Fay, Megan Mullally, Paul Anthony Stewart ...

Unabridged

1 hour 49 min

Based on the Bernice Rubens’ novel of the same name, I Sent a Letter to My Love is a romantic musical by Grammy-winner Melissa Manchester and dramatist Jeffrey Sweet. It’s 1955 and a lonely spinster places a correspondence ad on a whim. But her hope for romance backfires when her wheelchair-bound brother is her only respondent. A tender story of love and loneliness.An L.A. Theatre Works full cast ... Read more

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Based on the Bernice Rubens’ novel of the same name, I Sent a Letter to My Love is a romantic musical by Grammy-winner Melissa Manchester and dramatist Jeffrey Sweet. It’s 1955 and a lonely spinster places a correspondence ad on a whim. But her hope for romance backfires when her wheelchair-bound brother is her only respondent. A tender story of love and loneliness.An L.A. Theatre Works full cast
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Flyovers

by Jeffrey Sweet ...

Narrated by Amy Morton, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

1 hour 17 min

A renowned film critic returns to his small Ohio hometown for a high school reunion – and to make peace with his past. The town and most of his former classmates, including the school bully, have fallen on hard times, and the successful critic soon finds himself caught up in a culture clash of economics, sex and long-submerged resentment.A winner of the Joseph Jefferson Award for best new script ... Read more

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A renowned film critic returns to his small Ohio hometown for a high school reunion – and to make peace with his past. The town and most of his former classmates, including the school bully, have fallen on hard times, and the successful critic soon finds himself caught up in a culture clash of economics, sex and long-submerged resentment.A winner of the Joseph Jefferson Award for best new script
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Value of Names, The

by Jeffrey Sweet ...

Narrated by Hector Elizondo, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

1 hour 13 min

Benny Silverman, a retired, successful actor, seems to have surmounted the bitter time in his life when Leo Greshen, a good friend and colleague “named” him in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Benny’s flourishing career was nearly destroyed, and his comeback was slow and painful. The two men haven’t spoken since. But they are forced to deal with each other 30 years after the ... Read more

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Benny Silverman, a retired, successful actor, seems to have surmounted the bitter time in his life when Leo Greshen, a good friend and colleague “named” him in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Benny’s flourishing career was nearly destroyed, and his comeback was slow and painful. The two men haven’t spoken since. But they are forced to deal with each other 30 years after the
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With and Without

by Jeffrey Sweet ...

Narrated by Lindsay Crouse, Jill Eikenberry, Tim Halligan, Michael Tucker ...

Unabridged

1 hour 16 min

It should be a week full of wine, wit and relaxation. However Jill’s husband doesn’t show up at a lakeside vacation house and instead of a holiday, the happily married Mark & Shelly are offered an intimate view of their friend’s 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 ... Read more

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It should be a week full of wine, wit and relaxation. However Jill’s husband doesn’t show up at a lakeside vacation house and instead of a holiday, the happily married Mark & Shelly are offered an intimate view of their friend’s 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
... Read more

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Beyond This Place of Wrath and Tears

by Jack Ford ...

Narrated by Cynthia Farrell ...

Unabridged

10 hours 31 min

Washington, DC, April 1954: Lee Carson, former war correspondent, is frustrated that her journalism career has been relegated to society events and fashion stories. But when she receives a tip about a Russian spy in a high-ranking government position at the height of the Cold War, she feels the thrill of a story that she hasn't felt since she was on the front lines of the European theater . . ... Read more

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Washington, DC, April 1954: Lee Carson, former war correspondent, is frustrated that her journalism career has been relegated to society events and fashion stories. But when she receives a tip about a Russian spy in a high-ranking government position at the height of the Cold War, she feels the thrill of a story that she hasn't felt since she was on the front lines of the European theater . .
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Midnight Pass

by Stuart M. Kaminsky ...

Narrated by Scott Brick ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Lew Fonesca
Unabridged

7 hours 21 min

Lew Fonesca is a Sarasota part-time process server still mourning his dead wife and trying to get through life without any complications. But his life is full of them. His shrink wants him to dump his grief so he can have more of a life; a pretty social worker who has helped him in the past wants to "deepen" their friendship; and his big heart prevents him from saying no to people who need his ... Read more

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Lew Fonesca is a Sarasota part-time process server still mourning his dead wife and trying to get through life without any complications. But his life is full of them. His shrink wants him to dump his grief so he can have more of a life; a pretty social worker who has helped him in the past wants to "deepen" their friendship; and his big heart prevents him from saying no to people who need his
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Nothin' Comes Easy

The Life of Rodney Dangerfield

by Michael Seth Starr ...

The first-ever biography of the legendary comic and the most improbable rise to fame in the history of American comedy. Getting there wasn’t always a laughing matter.Rodney Dangerfield’s fidgety delivery, self-deprecating humor, and catchphrase “I don’t get no respect” made him a comedy icon in nightclubs, on television, and in movies. But Rodney’s long road to stardom was as rocky as his real ... Read more

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The first-ever biography of the legendary comic and the most improbable rise to fame in the history of American comedy. Getting there wasn’t always a laughing matter.Rodney Dangerfield’s fidgety delivery, self-deprecating humor, and catchphrase “I don’t get no respect” made him a comedy icon in nightclubs, on television, and in movies. But Rodney’s long road to stardom was as rocky as his real
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From Broken Glass

My Story of Finding Hope in Hitler's Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation

by Steve Ross ...

Narrated by Robert Blumenfeld, Ray Flynn, Michael Ross ...

Unabridged

6 hours 11 min

From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a "devastating...inspirational" memoir (The Today Show) about finding strength in the face of despair.On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and injuring nineteen, the New England Holocaust Memorial ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a "devastating...inspirational" memoir (The Today Show) about finding strength in the face of despair.On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and injuring nineteen, the New England Holocaust Memorial
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The Life She Could Have Lived

FROM NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER LAURA PEARSON. A heartwarming, life-affirming love story about fate, friendship, perfect for fans of One Day and Taylor Jenkins Reid

by Laura Pearson ...

Narrated by Laura Kirman ...

Unabridged

8 hours 30 min

The BRAND NEW heartwarming read from the author of the NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER The Last List of Mabel Beaumont, perfect for fans of One Day, Taylor Jenkins Reid's Maybe in Another Life and Cecelia Ahern! ✨‘Warm, wise and deeply insightful, I adored every page.’ No.1 bestselling author, Shari LowWhat if the answer to one little question could change your whole life?Soon after Anna goes on the best ... Read more

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The BRAND NEW heartwarming read from the author of the NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER The Last List of Mabel Beaumont, perfect for fans of One Day, Taylor Jenkins Reid's Maybe in Another Life and Cecelia Ahern! ✨‘Warm, wise and deeply insightful, I adored every page.’ No.1 bestselling author, Shari LowWhat if the answer to one little question could change your whole life?Soon after Anna goes on the best
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