L.A. Theatre Works

Series produced by L.A. Theatre Works

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Listeners across the country are discovering L.A. Theatre Works’ National Broadcast Series, which brings you contemporary, edgy and significant radio drama by acclaimed playwrights starring top name talent.

Our National Broadcast Series is on public radio nationwide, including KPFK/90.7 in Los Angeles, WBEZ/91.5 in Chicago, KUOW/94.9 in Seattle, and more. Our Audio Theatre Collection is available at www.latw.org as well as in libraries, bookstores and as digital downloads. Those in the Los Angeles area can see L.A. Theatre Works shows recorded live; visit latw.org for more information.


Additional Files

152 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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A hilarious supernatural caper for Halloween.

Bought by KREV-LP, KUT-HD, KUOW, KRCB-FM, and WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 18, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Brian Bedford as Tartuffe
A story that began its life under a cloud of controversy.

Bought by WCPN, Nevada Public Radio, KRCB-FM, KUT-HD, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 6
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The story of one of TV’s early idealists, retold in the context of the Cold War.

Bought by Jefferson Public Radio, Nevada Public Radio, KUT-HD, Spokane Public Radio, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 7
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Shaw's well-aimed satire about medical ethics.

Bought by Nevada Public Radio, WBEZ, Spokane Public Radio, KXOT Public Radio, and KRCB-FM


  • Added: Aug 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 5
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Would the Manhattan Project help save the world or end it?

Bought by KUNM, KALW, Nevada Public Radio, KUT-HD, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:54
  • Purchases: 8
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Apartheid’s insidious effect on the family of an American diplomat in South Africa.

Bought by KUT-HD, WBEZ, Nevada Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:54
  • Purchases: 7
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Studs Terkel's classic look at working Americans, re-imagined as a musical.

Bought by KUNM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WUIS, KUNM, KZYX and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2012
  • Length: 01:28:59
  • Purchases: 13
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Most of us who earn a living have at one time or another been fired – let go, downsized, outsourced, canned.

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, WXXI, KUHF, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WYSO and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2012
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 24
Caption: Brian Bedford
Two classic short works from Molière, in the definitive translations by Richard Wilbur.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Nevada Public Radio, KUT-HD, KALW, KRCB-FM and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 8

  • Added: Jun 14, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 5
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Oscar Wilde's dark comedy about indiscretion and its effects on a government official.

Bought by Nevada Public Radio, WRVO, KUOW, KRCB-FM, and WBEZ


  • Added: May 18, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 5
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Wilde's facility with words contributes to his undoing.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KUNM, WRVO, Nevada Public Radio, KUOW and more


  • Added: May 11, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 7
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Nathan Lane and David Paymer star in Neil Simon's comedy classic.

Bought by KCHW, WCPN, Nevada Public Radio, KRCB-FM, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:57
  • Purchases: 7
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Jeff Goldblum, Adam Arkin, and Dina Waters star in David Mamet's classic, vicious comedy about deal-making in Hollywood.

Bought by KCHW, KRCB-FM, WRVO, Nevada Public Radio, KUOW and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:57
  • Purchases: 6
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Sam Shepard's intense and dark comedy.

Bought by WRVO, KRCB-FM, WBEZ, Nevada Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 06, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 5
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A darkly comic satire probes the cost of sanity among men of science and whether it is the mad who are the truly sane.

Bought by WRVO, KUNM, Nevada Public Radio, KUOW, KRCB-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 6
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The famous court battle over the right to teach evolution in public school comes to life.

Bought by WRVO, WCPN, Nevada Public Radio, KRCB-FM, KUOW and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 6
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The conclusion of Tom Stoppard's crash course in landscape gardening, literature, and chaos theory. Plus, a special BBC play about a heart transpla...

Bought by WCPN, WRVO, Nevada Public Radio, KUOW, KRCB-FM and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 6
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A crash course in mathematics, landscape gardening, literature, and chaos theory, courtesy of Tom Stoppard.

Bought by WCPN, WRVO, Nevada Public Radio, KUOW, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Harry Hamlin, Mare Winningham, Stacey Keach
A major work from playwright Clifford Odets.

Bought by WRVO, KRCB-FM, KALW, KUOW, and WBEZ


  • Added: Dec 29, 2009
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 5