American Theater

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    • How We Made a Great American Art
    • By: Sam Wasson
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • At the height of the McCarthy era, an experimental theater troupe set up shop in a bar near the University of Chicago. Via word-of-mouth, astonished crowds packed the ad-hoc venue....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • The Life and Times of the Musical Chicago
    • By: Ethan Mordden
    • Narrated by: Joel Froomkin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • As author Ethan Mordden looks back at Chicago's various moving parts, we learn how the American theater serves as a kind of alternative news medium, a town crier warning the public about the racy, devious interior contradictions of American society....

    Regular price: $17.19

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    • By: James Anthony Tyler
    • Narrated by: Ronald Emile, Jayme Lawson, Kareem Lucas, Portia
    • Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 576 ratings
    • NYC, 2013. During late night trips on the A train, we get snapshots of Tyrone's life - his close relationship with his mother, his attempts to flirt with a coworker, Niesha, his job as a bouncer, and his dreams of going back to school....

    Regular price: $7.95

    • The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America
    • By: Stacy Wolf
    • Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger
    • Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In Beyond Broadway, author Stacy Wolf looks at the widespread presence and persistence of musical theater in US culture and examines it as a social practice - a live, visceral experience of creating, watching, and listening....

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    • American Armed Forces in the European Theater in World War II
    • By: Charles B. MacDonald
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 22 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • From the first landings at Casablanca straight through to the crossing of the Elbe River and V-E Day, this book tells the gripping story of the European theater of operations battles of World War II....

    Regular price: $21.46

    • A Life
    • By: Patti Hartigan
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham, Patti Hartigan
    • Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Author and theater critic Patti Hartigan provides the first authoritative biography of August Wilson, the most important and successful American playwright of the late 20th century....

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    • Visionaries of American Theater
    • By: Iris Dorbian
    • Narrated by: Michella Moss
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Broadway’s most esteemed visionaries tell all - how they got started in the business, how they chose projects, how they raise money....

    Regular price: $19.95

    • American Witness
    • By: John Lahr
    • Narrated by: John Rubinstein
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller’s dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights....

    Regular price: $13.97

    • By: Susan Cooper
    • Narrated by: Jim Dale
    • Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Only in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe traveling to London....

    Regular price: $13.50

    • A Father, a Son, and Their Battle for the Union
    • By: Ken Lizzio
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • An abolitionist and a spy, father and son, in the forgotten Western theater of the Civil War....

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    • The Craft and Industry of American Theater
    • By: Timothy R. White
    • Narrated by: Doug McDonald
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Behind the scenes of New York City's Great White Way, virtuosos of stagecraft have built the scenery, costumes, lights, and other components of theatrical productions for more than a hundred years....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • A Novel About Confederate Generals Pat Cleburne and Tom Hindman
    • By: Philip Leigh
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Six years before the American Civil War, a pair of 27-year-old Helena, Arkansas residents remained in the town to care for victims of an 1855 ...

    Regular price: $3.99

    • The Untold Story of the Actors and Stagehands at Ford's Theatre
    • By: Thomas A. Bogar
    • Narrated by: R.C. Bray
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • April 14, 1865. A famous actor pulls a trigger in the presidential balcony, leaps to the stage, and escapes, as the president lies fatally wounded....

    Regular price: $14.61

    • By: W. Anthony Sheppard - editor
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Janet Metzger
    • Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Sondheim in Our Time and His offers a wide-ranging historical investigation of the landmark works and extraordinary career of Stephen Sondheim, a career which has spanned much of the history of American musical theater....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • Finding Light in the Darkest Hours
    • By: Richard Fleischman
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-25
    • Language: English
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    • The Great Depression and Broadway: Finding Light in the Darkest Hours By Richard Fleischman Step into the heart of Broadway during one of the most ...

    Regular price: $7.99

    • An All Inclusive Multicultural Black History Play For Middle School Students
    • By: Aaron Braxton
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • Are you ready to embark on a journey through the remarkable achievements of African American men and women who have left an indelible mark on ...

    Regular price: $6.99

    • By: K. Anderson Yancy
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-25
    • Language: English
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    • Leah Ly a driven, exceptionally talented, Chinese-American actress, working her way through Hollywood’s system, determined to make it on her own,...

    Regular price: $9.99

    • Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim
    • By: Rob Kapilow
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Few people in recent memory have dedicated themselves as devotedly to the story of twentieth-century American music as Rob Kapilow, the composer, conductor....

    Regular price: $25.79