Theater Biographies

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  • Regular price: $20.24

    • 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 574 ratings
    • Award-winning author Stephen Greenblatt is one of the most influential literary thinkers in the world....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 12 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 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 55 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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    • 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 615 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....

    Regular price: $19.95

    • 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 472 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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    • 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 173 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....

    Regular price: $30.09

    • 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 78 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....

    Regular price: $14.61

    • 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 489 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....

    Regular price: $7.95

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    • Dreamer, Icon, Superstar
    • By: Cynthia Carr
    • Narrated by: Justin Vivian Bond
    • Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Growing up on Long Island, lonely and quiet and queer, she was enchanted by Hollywood starlets like Kim Novak....

    Regular price: $24.74

    • 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 106 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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    • 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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    • 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 53 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.

    Regular price: $18.00

    • The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
    • By: Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
    • Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly
    • Series: Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,634 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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    • 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 282 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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    • By: Mia Farrow
    • Narrated by: Mia Farrow
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 174 ratings
    • In an exquisitely written memoir, Mia Farrow introduces us to the landscapes of her extraordinary life. Moving from her earliest memories of the walled gardens and rocky shores...

    Regular price: $13.46

    • The True Story of the "Bad Boy" Hero of the Pacific Theatre and His Famous Black Sheep Squadron
    • By: Gregory "Pappy" Boyington
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,272 ratings
    • Here, in his own words, is the true story of America's wildest flying hero, of his extraordinary heroism, and of his greatest battle of all-the fight to survive....

    Regular price: $21.49