English Theater

Oric Rune, A Player Killer with nothing left to lose, wants nothing more than to avenge the villagers of Ducat, who were butchered before his very eyes by the Drachma Killers. But with the people of the Rune Lands encroaching on the southern cities of Unigaea, and something brewing in the sky that could prove fatal to the entire online world, Oric must make the choice between personal vengeance, and becoming the hero he is destined to be. Joining him on his epic journey are a giant Tagvornin wolf, a mute Solar Mage, and a cunning illusionist named Sam Raid.

Carl thought his life was on track until disaster struck. Now he looks like a 35-year-old and is out of points, so he needs to scramble to change the situation before anyone finds out the truth. The question is, what should he do next? Buy more businesses, or focus on his love life? And always in the background is his family, wondering what happened to their father and grandfather and if he will ever talk to them again. Follow Carl as he discovers new ways of living when he is nearing the end of his own life.

Mommie dearest...or is it daughter dearest? A recognizable teen star without a job, Olivia gets proactive. Dons a disguise and heads to a Hollywood benefit in Las Vegas in hopes of networking. She meets a producer who was tracked down by the father of a famous abducted girl. He wanted to share the young girl’s twisted secret diary. The producer insisted Olivia read it. "Spectacular stuff. Nothing like it." Not all mother-daughter relationships are loving. Abuse comes in all forms. And goes both ways. So does revenge, and jealousy. The aftermath is a wasteland.

The year is 1970. Eighteen-year old Abby Douglas and her best friend, Linda, are enrolled in a theater class and become entangled in misfortune at the Rockford University Campus. Weeks before her first class, Abby begins having reoccurring dreams. Reluctantly she gets entangled in another mystery. Danger is lurking, and the theater professor may have to cancel the play. If the mystery isn't solved soon, the university officials will consider terminating the entire theater program.

Based on her widely praised performance piece Unicorn Gratitude Mystery ("Wickedly funny", as described by The New York Times), Karen Finley’s Grabbing Pussy explores the Shakespearean dynamics that surface when libidos and loyalties clash in the public and private personas of Donald Trump, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner, and now Harvey Weinstein.

Before Tim Federle became a best-selling author and a Broadway playwright, he worked as a back-up dancer at the Super Bowl, a polar bear at Radio City, and a card-carrying chorus boy on Broadway. Life Is Like a Musical features 50 tips learned backstage, onstage, and in between gigs, with chapters such as "Dance Like Everyone's Watching" and "Save the Drama for the Stage". This charming and clever guide will appeal to all ages and inspire listeners to step into the lead roles of their own lives, even if they're not recovering theater majors.

An award winning Drama from SmartPass. Unabridged with guided description to set the scene and fill in visual moments.

An award winning Drama from SmartPass. Unabridged with guided description to set the scene and fill in visual moments.

In his first work for the theater, James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwavering awareness of the price those churches exacted from their worshipers. For years Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety. But when Margaret's estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path.

In early 2019, when playwright Kirk Wood Bromley was diagnosed with cancer, his fans and collaborators came together to fund and record three of his plays, one of which was Icarus and Aria, an "upgraded Romeo and Juliet" that was originally performed under the dramatory of Aaron Beall at the first New York International Fringe Festival in 1997.

All the Ways to Say I Love You by Neil LaBute, directed by Leigh Silverman, is a thoughtful, psychological solo play centered around the character Faye Johnson, performed by multi-award-winning actress Judith Light (Transparent, American Crime Story, Who's the Boss?). Reflecting on an event from her past, Johnson confronts the defining question of her life: What is the weight of a lie?

All the Ways to Say I Love You received its World Premiere production at the MCC Theater in September of 2016. MCC is under the leadership of Artistic Directors Robert Lupone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, and Executive Director Blake West.

Bonus content includes an Audible-exclusive conversation between director Leigh Silverman and actress Judith Light.

You're invited to go along with little Lorrie Lincoln with her family and friends as they travel to James and Pearl's movie theater. To join in on the fun, be sure to bring your crayons, markers, or pencils and paper to draw pictures of the exciting trip to the movie theater as you listen to it.

All Americans are familiar with the "day that will live in infamy." At 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor, the advanced base of the United States Navy's Pacific Fleet, was ablaze. It had been smashed by aircraft launched by the carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. All eight battleships had been sunk or badly damaged, 350 aircraft had been knocked out, and over 2,000 Americans lay dead. In less than an hour and a half the Japanese had almost wiped out America's entire naval presence in the Pacific.

This is a full recording of Daniel Martin Berkey performing the play Remission, which Backstage magazine called "mind-blowing" and NYTheater called "90 intense and harrowing minutes of spectacular wordplay".

After a year locked down and socially distanced, there’s nothing Rachel’s looking forward more than the day her favorite local movie theaters can safely reopen. When that day finally arrives, however, she finds herself struggling to make a very important decision: which movie will she see first?

The adventures of a talking wooden puppet who yearns to become a real boy.

China-Burma-India is one of the most forgotten theaters of World War 2. As the United States entered the war after Pearl Harbor, it looked to China as a source of manpower as well as a base for bombers and a way to eventually invade Japan. The Japanese, British, Americans, and Chinese each had their own motivations and policies in the Pacific that would ultimately lead to the involvement of Burma in the Pacific War. The conflict in Burma was an intricate affair that may be best understood through the story of the first Yunnan Expedition into Burma.

After all the backstage ghost drama during Phantasm, things are quiet for the Backstagers of the St. Genesius School Drama Club - too quiet. But when that quiet is filled by a mysterious voice that haunts the Backstagers day and night, they set off on a globetrotting adventure to discover the ancient secrets of the legendary artifacts of the theater.

Bucceroni is back ! Bada Boom in Brooklyn takes the listener on a roller-coaster of a story, with twists, turns, a red herring or two, and a malicious murderer. The killer is cunning, but Bucceroni’s at the top of his game and dishes out more than he takes. Life at the Urban U has never been more dangerous!

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