Books published by La Theatre Works

In this unique audio adaptation of Neil Simon's screenplay, Paula McFadden's a down-on-her-luck actress who's forced to take in a new roommate the eccentric, noisy, and generally unpleasant Eliot Garfield who also happens to be an actor. As their careers and finances hit new lows..., their reluctant partnership threatens to turn into something neither one wants. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring (in alphabetical order): Ellis Greer and Donna and others; Anna Mathias as multiple characters; Matthew Floyd Miller as Eliot Garfield; Amy Pietz as Paula McFadden; Raini Rodriguez as Lucy; Andr Sogliuzzo as multiple characters; Inger Tudor as Mrs. Crosby and others; Matthew Wolf as Mark Bodine and others; Adam Wylie as multiple characters Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Recorded live in performance at UCLA's James Bridges Theater in January 2018.
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Based on the true story of renowned social psychologist Stanley Milgram, Please Continue recounts the infamous obedience experiments at Yale in the 1960s. In that study, participants were asked to administer strong electric shocks to a subject who gave the wrong answer to a quest...ion, not knowing that the shocks were fake, and they were the real subject of the study. The play examines how the experiments gave insight into the nature of authoritarianism and individual morality. Includes an interview about science and ethics with Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, a Professor of Education at the Rossier School of Education, a Professor of Psychology at the Brain and Creativity Institute, and a member of the Neuroscience Graduate Program Faculty at the University of Southern California. Please Continue is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.
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After Vladimir Lenin's death, Stalin orders two Jewish scientists to preserve Lenin's body for all time. If they succeed, the rewards will be considerable. If not, it's the gulag or worse. Based on real events, Vern Theissen's nimble dark comedy exposes the absurdities of Soviet ...life under Stalin. Lenin's Embalmers 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, bridging science and the arts in the modern world. Starring, in alphabetical order: JD Cullum, Gregory Harrison, Simon Helberg, Jon Matthews, Rufus Sewell, John Sloan, Mark Jude Sullivan, and Jocelyn Towne. Associate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Senior Radio Producer, Ronn Lipkin. Recording Engineer and Editor, Erick Cifuentes. Sound Designer and Mixer, Mark Holden for the Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Directed by Martin Jarvis.
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Angela Arden wants to be free of her suffocating marriage to film producer Sol Sussman. What better way than poison! Distraught by her father's death and convinced of her mother's guilt, Edith Sussman plots to get the truth out of Angela using any means necessary. Charles Busch s...tars in the role he originated in this camp sendup where tongues aren't the only thing dipped in acid. Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in May 2019. Directed by Carl Andress With original music and songs by Lewis Flinn Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg Charles Busch as Angela Arden Sussman Mark Capri as Tony Parker Willie Garson as Sol Sussman Ellis Greer as Edith Sussman Jeffery Self as Lance Sussman Ruth Williamson as Bootsie Associate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Recording Engineer, Sound Designer and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Senior Radio Producer, Ronn Lipkin. Foley Artist, Brian Wallace. Production Manager, Zack Mye
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World Premiere! Based on an orginal screenplay by Janet Dulin Jones. An exhilarating epic by the award-winning Antaeus Theatre Company with 16 actors portraying more than 130 characters. London in the 1830's - the most colorful and chaotic city in the world - and young journalist... Charles Dickens is uncovering a dark conspiracy of arson and murder. A fanciful look at the man before he became the iconic author we know today.
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