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  Arrrowsmith - Hollywood Stage

  Hollywood Stage Productions

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  Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go-to’ place for entertainment and has been for decades.  When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in Heaven Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays – on the sponsors dime of course.  Classic films now become audiobooks with many featuring the original stars from way back when. Here's Arrowsmith starring Spencer Tracy & Fay Wray.

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  A Woman of No Importance

  Oscar Wilde

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  Devilishly attractive Lord Illingworth is notorious for his skill as a seducer. But he is still invited to all the “best” houses while his female conquests must hide their shame in seclusion. In this devastating comedy, Wilde uses his celebrated wit to expose English society’s narrow view of everything from sexual mores to Americans. Adapted by Martin Jarvis.
  
  An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:
  
  Martin Jarvis as Lord Illingworth
  Peter Dennis as Sir John Pontefract
  Jim Norton as Mr. Kelvil, M.P.
  Robert Machray as The Venerable Archdeacon Daubeny, D.D.
  Paul Gutrecht as Gerald Arbuthnot
  Miriam Margolyes as Lady Hunstanton
  Jane Carr as Lady Caroline Pontefract
  Judy Geeson as Lady Stutfield
  Cherie Lunghi as Mrs. Allonby and Alice
  Samantha Mathis as Miss Hester Worsley
  Rosalind Ayres as Mrs. Arbuthnot
  
  Includes an interview with Oscar Wilde’s only grandchild, Merlin Holland, who is also a noted biographer and editor of Wilde’s works.
  
  Directed by Michael Hackett. Recorded before a live audience at the DoubleTree Suites, Santa Monica in November of 1995.

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  Born in the USA - The New York...

  Herman Melville, George Arnold,...

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  Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another.  Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. 
   
  Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. 
   
  In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. 
   
  The United States may be many things: the world’s policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. 
   
  Little wonder that’s its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art.  Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up.   
   
  In this volume we have collected verse from poets born in one of the most famous cities in the World: New York. Within its five boroughs are a small universe of wonder and magic, a kaleidoscope of almost everything the planet has to offer.  In past times New York was a gateway to a new land and a new future whatever the misery and tragedy of your former life.  Of course, this golden vision was not attained by everyone.  But our local poets, including such luminaries as Emma Lazarus, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Alice Duer Miller, and Alan Seeger bring vision and truth to this unrivalled city and its hallowed status in the world of verse. 
   
   
  1 - Born in the USA. The New York City Poets.  Exploring American Poetry - An Introduction 
  2 - September by George Arnold 
  3 - October by George Arnold 
  4 - A Chant of Love for England by Helen Gray Cone 
  5 - Rheims Cathedral, 1914 by Grace Hazard Conkling 
  6 - To the Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window by Adelaide Crapsey 
  7 - Keats by Adelaide Crapsey 
  8 - The Revolt of Mother by Alice Duer Miller 
  9 - To the Night Breeze by Alice & Caroline Duer 
  10 - Nathan Hale by Francis Miles Finch 
  11 - The Wild Honey Suckle by Phillip Freneau 
  12 - A Political Litany by Philip Freneau 
  13 - To the Memory of the Americans Who Fell at Eutaw by Philip Freneau 
  14 - Mother's Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe 
  15 - Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe 
  16 - This Curse by Henry James 
  17 - Old Manuscript by Alfred Kreymborg 
  18 - Cradle by Alfred Kreymborg 
  19 - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 
  20 - A June Night by Emma Lazarus 
  21 - Assurance by Emma Lazarus 
  22 - Evil In Design by Emma Lazarus 
  23 - America by Herman Melville 
  24 - Dupont's Round Fight (November 1861) by Herman Melville 
  25 - Look-Out Mountain by Herman Melville 
  26 - Shiloh by Herman Melville 
  27 - The Portent by Herman Melville 
  28 - A Visit From St Nicholas (T'Was The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore 
  29 - Aspiration by Henrietta Cordelia Ray 
  30 - Life by Henrietta Cordelia Ray 
  31 - Silent Thoughts by Charles Lewis Reason 
  32 - The Spirit Voice or Liberty Call to The Disfranchised by Charles Lewis Reason 
  33 - I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger 
  34 - Resurgam by Alan Seeger 
  35 - Sonnet 12 by Alan Seeger 
  36 - At the Tomb of Napoleon by Alan Seeger 
  37 - Battle Sleep by Edith Wharton 
  38 - Survival by Edith Wharton 
  39 - Non Dolet by Edith Wharton 
  40 - Terminus by E

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  The Age of Minority - 3 Solo Plays

  Jordan Tannahill

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  Three of Jordan Tannahill’s fresh and riveting works are featured in this collection, including Get Yourself Home Skyler James, Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes, and rihannaboi95. Based on a true story, Get Yourself Home Skyler James follows the harrowing journey of a young lesbian who defects from the army when she is outed by fellow soldiers. Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes chronicles the last hour of Peter Fechter’s life, a teenager in East Berlin shot while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall in 1962 with his companion. Finally, the award-winning  rihannaboi95 centres around a Toronto teen whose world comes crashing in when YouTube videos of him dancing to songs by his favourite pop heroine go viral. Together these solo plays explore the lives of three queer youth and their resilience in the face of violence and intolerance.

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  Morning Noon and Night

  James Weldon Johnson

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  Librivox volunteers bring you 14 readings of Morning, Noon and Night by James Weldon Johnson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 14th, 2014.James Weldon Johnson served as U. S. Consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua, was an early leader in the NAACP and contributed to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. He had a broad appreciation for black artists, musicians and writers, and worked to heighten awareness of their creativity. (from Wikipedia)

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  Pride and Prejudice

  Jane Austen, Christina Calvit

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  A full-cast audio adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic romantic comedy, the sparkling tale of the Bennets, a family blessed with five daughters and a mother desperate to marry them off. The tempestuous pairing of the witty, independent Elizabeth and her arrogant but honorable suitor Mr. Darcy sets the standard for all great couples of stage and screen.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Kate Burton, Melanie Dix, Elizabeth Laidlaw, Frances Limoncelli, Miriam Margolyes, Bradley Mott, James Sie, Joao de Sousa, Sandy Snyder, Kevin Theis and Steve Totland.

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