Theater Biographies

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    • How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
    • By: Stephen Greenblatt
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 562 ratings
    • Award-winning author Stephen Greenblatt is one of the most influential literary thinkers in the world....

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    • An Infantryman's Life After World War II
    • By: E. B. Sledge, Stephen E. Ambrose
    • Narrated by: Dan John Miller
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 588 ratings
    • Picking up where his previous memoir leaves off, Sledge, a young marine, charts his own difficult passage to peace following his horrific experiences in the Pacific....

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    • The Life of Chesty Puller
    • By: Burke Davis
    • Narrated by: Bill Thatcher
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 442 ratings
    • In the glorious chronicles of the US Marine Corps, no name is more revered than that of Lt. Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller....

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    • A Biography
    • By: Garry O'Connor
    • Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
    • Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In 2001, Ian McKellen put on the robe and pointed hat of a wizard named Gandalf and won a place in the hearts of Tolkien fans worldwide. Though his role in the film adaptation of Lord of the Rings introduced him to a new audience, McKellen had a thriving career a lifetime before that....

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    • By: Eric Idle
    • Narrated by: Eric Idle, Alan Tudyk
    • Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • The inside story of what it took to bring Monty Python and the Holy Grail to Broadway as the unlikely theatrical hit Spamalot, The Spamalot Diaries is told through actual diary entries from the legendary comic performer, founding member of Monty Python, and New York Times bestselling author.

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    • The Battle for Broadway
    • By: Michael Riedel
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • Razzle Dazzle is a provocative, no-holds-barred narrative account of the people, money, and power that reinvented an iconic quarter of New York City....

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    • The German Perspective
    • By: Peter Margaritis
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 28 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 152 ratings
    • In December 1943, with the rising realization that the Allies are planning to invade Fortress Europe, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is assigned the title of General Inspector for the Atlantic Wall. His mission is to assess their readiness....

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    • A Biography
    • By: Michael Coveney
    • Narrated by: Sian Thomas
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm, or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith. Michael Coveney's biography shines a light on the life and career of a truly remarkable performer, one whose stage and screen career spans six decades....

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    • The True Story of the Deceptive Art
    • By: Peter Lamont, Jim Steinmeyer
    • Narrated by: Rory Barnett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Behind the smoke and mirrors lies the real story of magic. It is a history of people from humble roots, who made and lost fortunes, and who deceived kings and queens. In order to survive, they concealed many secrets, yet they revealed some, and they stole others....

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    • The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
    • By: Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
    • Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly
    • Series: The Killing Series (O'Reilly and Dugard)
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,565 ratings
    • General George S. Patton, Jr., died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost 70 years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident....

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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 67 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....

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    • By: Doug Wright
    • Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
    • Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 488 ratings
    • This Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning drama tells the fascinating, real-life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a transgender woman who managed to defy insurmountable odds. Based on interviews conducted by the playwright, I Am My Own Wife takes us on a theatrical journey....

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    • A True Story of Sex, Manipulation, and Murder
    • By: Rebecca Lavoie, Kevin Flynn
    • Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Was murder part of the game? Seventeen-year-old Kat McDonough grew up with theater in her blood - and a penchant for make-believe....

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    • American Witness
    • By: John Lahr
    • Narrated by: John Rubinstein
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller’s dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights....

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    • Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
    • By: John Lahr
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Ashley
    • Length: 26 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
    • The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker....

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    • How Chance and the Theater Saved My Life
    • By: Laurence Luckinbill
    • Narrated by: Laurence Luckinbill
    • Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This is the riveting, brutally honest story of a man’s struggle to make something of himself in the theater. Coming from meager circumstances in the Ozark Mountains, he fights his way up the shaky ladder toward fame. He makes mistakes. But he never quits.

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Quiara Alegría Hudes
    • Narrated by: Quiara Alegría Hudes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 277 ratings
    • Quiara Alegría Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced their defiance in a tight North Philly kitchen. She was awed by her mother and aunts and cousins, but haunted by the unspoken, untold stories of the barrio....

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