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The L.A. Theatre Works Audio Docudrama Series

Pivotal Moments in American History

by Peter Goodchild, Murray Horowitz, Jonathan Estrin, Geoffrey Cowan, Leroy Aarons ...

Series series Methuen Drama Play Collections
A unique play anthology featuring five gripping docudramas originally commissioned by L.A. Theatre Works that each explore pivotal moments in 20th century U.S history.With ensemble casts and innovative staging potential these plays are perfect for theatre companies, schools and educational groups looking to stage familiar historical stories in new and original ways. Each play is accompanied by ... Read more

$34.79 USD

A unique play anthology featuring five gripping docudramas originally commissioned by L.A. Theatre Works that each explore pivotal moments in 20th century U.S history.With ensemble casts and innovative staging potential these plays are perfect for theatre companies, schools and educational groups looking to stage familiar historical stories in new and original ways. Each play is accompanied by
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Prayers for Bobby

A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son

by Leroy Aarons, George Newbern ...

Narrated by Wentworth Miller ...

Unabridged

9 hours 23 min

30th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONBobby Griffith was an all-American boy … and he was gay. Faced with an irresolvable conflict—for both his family and his religion taught him that being gay was “wrong”—Bobby chose to take his own life.Prayers for Bobby, nominated for a 1996 Lambda Literary Award, is the story of the emotional journey that led Bobby to this tragic conclusion. But it is also the story of ... Read more

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30th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONBobby Griffith was an all-American boy … and he was gay. Faced with an irresolvable conflict—for both his family and his religion taught him that being gay was “wrong”—Bobby chose to take his own life.Prayers for Bobby, nominated for a 1996 Lambda Literary Award, is the story of the emotional journey that led Bobby to this tragic conclusion. But it is also the story of
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Top Secret

The Battle for the Pentagon Papers (1991)

by Geoffrey Cowan, Leroy Aarons ...

Narrated by Philip Abbott, Irene Arranga, Bo Foxworth, Darrell Larson, Ed Begley Jr., Edward Asner, Gerrit Graham, Harris Yulin, Harry Shearer, Hector Elizondo, Howard Hesseman, Jack Coleman, James Whitmore, Joe Spano, Marsha Mason, Nan Martin, Richard Dysart, Richard Riehle, Robert Foxworth, Robin Gammell, Stacy Keach ...

Unabridged

1 hour 44 min

The original version of LATW’s groundbreaking docudrama about the Pentagon Papers, the infamous classified documents about US involvement in the Vietnam War, and how The Washington Post fought the government to publish them.Includes a 1991 panel discussion with journalists Ben Bradlee, Peter Braestrup, Robert Maynard, Carla Robbins, Robert Scheer, and George WilsonRecorded before a live audience ... Read more

$6.99 USD

The original version of LATW’s groundbreaking docudrama about the Pentagon Papers, the infamous classified documents about US involvement in the Vietnam War, and how The Washington Post fought the government to publish them.Includes a 1991 panel discussion with journalists Ben Bradlee, Peter Braestrup, Robert Maynard, Carla Robbins, Robert Scheer, and George WilsonRecorded before a live audience
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Top Secret

The Battle for the Pentagon Papers 2008 Tour Edition

by Geoffrey Cowan, Leroy Aarons ...

Narrated by Diane Adair, Bo Foxworth, John Getz, James Gleason, Gregory Harrison, John Heard, Raphael Sbarge, Russell Soder, Susan Sullivan, Peter Van Norden, Tom Virtue, Geoffrey Wade ...

Unabridged

1 hour 16 min

A timely docudrama about The Washington Post’s decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, a top secret study documenting U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The subsequent trial tested the parameters of the First Amendment, pitting the public’s right to know against the government’s desire for secrecy.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Diane Adair, Bo Foxworth, John Getz, James Gleason, ... Read more

$6.99 USD

A timely docudrama about The Washington Post’s decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, a top secret study documenting U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The subsequent trial tested the parameters of the First Amendment, pitting the public’s right to know against the government’s desire for secrecy.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Diane Adair, Bo Foxworth, John Getz, James Gleason,
... Read more
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Monticello

by Leroy Aarons, Glenn Paxton ...

Narrated by Shana Blake Hill, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

1 hour 43 min

A timely and hauntingly beautiful new opera with libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winner Leroy Aarons and score by accomplished composer Glenn Paxton. Scandal erupts in the White House - and in the national press - when Thomas Jefferson's longtime love affair with his slave mistress Sally Hemings is revealed.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Shana Blake Hill, Annette Daniels, Cynthia ... Read more

$6.99 USD

A timely and hauntingly beautiful new opera with libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winner Leroy Aarons and score by accomplished composer Glenn Paxton. Scandal erupts in the White House - and in the national press - when Thomas Jefferson's longtime love affair with his slave mistress Sally Hemings is revealed.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Shana Blake Hill, Annette Daniels, Cynthia
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Rainbow Boys

by Alex Sanchez ...

Narrated by Alston Brown ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Rainbow Trilogy
Unabridged

7 hours 8 min

Jason Carrillo is a jock with a steady girlfriend, but he can't stop dreaming about sex—with other guys. Kyle Meeks doesn't look gay, but he is. And he hopes he never has to tell anyone—especially his parents. Nelson Glassman is "out" to the entire world, but he can't tell the boy he loves that he wants to be more than just friends.Three teenage boys, coming of age and out of the closet.In a ... Read more

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Jason Carrillo is a jock with a steady girlfriend, but he can't stop dreaming about sex—with other guys. Kyle Meeks doesn't look gay, but he is. And he hopes he never has to tell anyone—especially his parents. Nelson Glassman is "out" to the entire world, but he can't tell the boy he loves that he wants to be more than just friends.Three teenage boys, coming of age and out of the closet.In a
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Rainbow Road

by Alex Sanchez ...

Narrated by Alston Brown ...

Series Audiobook 3 - The Rainbow Trilogy
Unabridged

7 hours 4 min

Jason Carrillo came out to his basketball team senior year and lost his university scholarship. Now, with graduation behind him and summer ending, he's asked to speak at the opening of a gay and lesbian high school across the country. But after spending years in the closet and losing his scholarship dream, what message can he offer? Kyle Meeks is getting ready to go to Princeton in the fall and ... Read more

$21.95 USD

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Jason Carrillo came out to his basketball team senior year and lost his university scholarship. Now, with graduation behind him and summer ending, he's asked to speak at the opening of a gay and lesbian high school across the country. But after spending years in the closet and losing his scholarship dream, what message can he offer? Kyle Meeks is getting ready to go to Princeton in the fall and
... Read more

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Raising Ryland

Our Story of Parenting a Transgender Child with No Strings Attached

by Hillary Whittington ...

Narrated by Hillary Whittington ...

Unabridged

7 hours 6 min

This powerful, moving story—which has already touched more than seven million through a viral video created by the Whittington family—is a mother’s first-hand account of her emotional choice to embrace her transgender child.When Hillary and Jeff Whittington posted a YouTube video chronicling their five-year-old son Ryland’s transition from girl to boy, they didn’t expect it to be greeted with such ... Read more

$23.99 USD

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This powerful, moving story—which has already touched more than seven million through a viral video created by the Whittington family—is a mother’s first-hand account of her emotional choice to embrace her transgender child.When Hillary and Jeff Whittington posted a YouTube video chronicling their five-year-old son Ryland’s transition from girl to boy, they didn’t expect it to be greeted with such
... Read more

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Darling Days

A Memoir

by iO Tillett Wright ...

Narrated by iO Tillett Wright ...

Unabridged

10 hours 46 min

Born into the beautiful bedlam of downtown New York in the eighties, iO Tillett Wright came of age at the intersection of punk, poverty, heroin, and art. This was a world of self-invented characters, glamorous superstars, and strung-out sufferers, ground zero of drag and performance art. Still, no personality was more vibrant and formidable than iOs mothers. Rhonna, a showgirl and young widow, was ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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Born into the beautiful bedlam of downtown New York in the eighties, iO Tillett Wright came of age at the intersection of punk, poverty, heroin, and art. This was a world of self-invented characters, glamorous superstars, and strung-out sufferers, ground zero of drag and performance art. Still, no personality was more vibrant and formidable than iOs mothers. Rhonna, a showgirl and young widow, was
... Read more

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Memory's Last Breath

Field Notes on My Dementia

by Gerda Saunders ...

Narrated by Gerda Saunders, Edita Brychta ...

Unabridged

9 hours 40 min

A "courageous and singular book" (Andrew Solomon), Memory's Last Breath is an unsparing, beautifully written memoir -- "an intimate, revealing account of living with dementia" (Shelf Awareness).Based on the "field notes" she keeps in her journal, Memory's Last Breath is Gerda Saunders' astonishing window into a life distorted by dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional ... Read more

$27.99 USD

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A "courageous and singular book" (Andrew Solomon), Memory's Last Breath is an unsparing, beautifully written memoir -- "an intimate, revealing account of living with dementia" (Shelf Awareness).Based on the "field notes" she keeps in her journal, Memory's Last Breath is Gerda Saunders' astonishing window into a life distorted by dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional
... Read more

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All That Heaven Allows

A Biography of Rock Hudson

by Mark Griffin ...

Narrated by Jeremy Arthur ...

Unabridged

13 hours 47 min

The inspiration for the HBO® Original Documentary, Rock Hudson: All that Heaven Allowed, airing June 28!The definitive biography of the deeply complex and widely misunderstood matinee idol of Hollywood’s Golden Age.“Mark Griffin paints a vivid portrait of a man who lived a double life in order to maintain his status as a movie star. Griffin’s sources are candid but credible, which makes the book a ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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The inspiration for the HBO® Original Documentary, Rock Hudson: All that Heaven Allowed, airing June 28!The definitive biography of the deeply complex and widely misunderstood matinee idol of Hollywood’s Golden Age.“Mark Griffin paints a vivid portrait of a man who lived a double life in order to maintain his status as a movie star. Griffin’s sources are candid but credible, which makes the book a
... Read more

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Secrets of Nanreath Hall

A Novel

by Alix Rickloff ...

Narrated by Lauren Irwin, Laura Waddell ...

Unabridged

12 hours 10 min

This incredible debut historical novel—in the tradition of Beatriz Williams and Jennifer Robson—tells the fascinating story of a young mother who flees her home on the rocky cliffs of Cornwall and the daughter who finds her way back, seeking answers.Cornwall, 1940. Back in England after the harrowing evacuation at Dunkirk, WWII Red Cross nurse Anna Trenowyth is shocked to learn her adoptive ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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This incredible debut historical novel—in the tradition of Beatriz Williams and Jennifer Robson—tells the fascinating story of a young mother who flees her home on the rocky cliffs of Cornwall and the daughter who finds her way back, seeking answers.Cornwall, 1940. Back in England after the harrowing evacuation at Dunkirk, WWII Red Cross nurse Anna Trenowyth is shocked to learn her adoptive
... Read more

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