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  Doctor Cerberus

  Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

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  A coming-of-age, coming-out cocktail with a twist of terror.  Thirteen-year-old Franklin Robertson is trying to survive adolescence.  His parents don’t understand him, his brother torments him, he has no friends, and he’s more interested in the high school quarterback than any girl.  The one bright spot in his life is the glow of the black-and-white TV in his parents’ basement.  Here, he worships at the altar of the Saturday Night Horror Movie, hosted by the eerie Dr. Cerberus.  Before long, Franklin is convinced that only by going on the show will his life be redeemed - by Dr. Cerberus himself!An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Simon Helberg as Franklin RobertsonJamison Jones as Doctor CerberusSteven Culp as Lawrence RobertsonPamela J. Gray as Lydia RobertsonJarrett Sleeper as Rodney RobertsonDirected by Bart DeLorenzo. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.Doctor Cerberus is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.

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  Detective Tales with Philo Vance...

  Carl Amari

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  This week, we tune into Orson Wells in The Lives of Harry Lime. We’ll also hear Philo Vance Detective, The Green Hornet and Inner Sanctum. Plus comedy courtesy of The Charlie McCarthy Show and Our Miss Brooks.
  A Falcon Picture Group audio production.

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  Discovering Classical Music:...

  Ian Christians

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  "I recommend this book wholeheartedly to new music lovers"  Sir Charles Groves CBE      Thanks to Nigel Kennedy and Pavarotti, millions of people have recently discovered that classical music is a highly enjoyable experience, perhaps contrary to their expectations. But the world of classical music can be highly intimidating and confusing. Ian Christians, for many years a passionate believer in broadening the interest in classical music, has developed a unique approach, designed to make it as easy as possible for both newcomers to classical music and those who have started down the path to explore with confidence. Discovering Classical Music concentrates on the greatest composers. The author takes you step-by-step into their most approachable music and, in some cases, boldly into some of the greatest works traditionally considered too difficult for newcomers. Rarely does a book offer such potential for continued enjoyment.This volume concentrates on the life, personality and music of Edward William Elgar.

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  Mistress of the Elgin Marbles -...

  Susan Nagel

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  “A lively and welcome account of a charismatic woman,” drawing on the personal correspondence of Lady Mary Bruce, wife of the Earl of Elgin (People). 
   
  The remarkable Mary Nisbet was the Countess of Elgin in Romantic-era Scotland and the wife of the seventh Earl of Elgin. When Mary accompanied her husband to diplomatic duty in Turkey, she changed history. She helped bring the smallpox vaccine to the Middle East, struck a seemingly impossible deal with Napoleon, and arranged the removal of famous marbles from the Parthenon. But all of her accomplishments would be overshadowed, however, by her scandalous divorce. Drawing from Mary’s own letters, scholar Susan Nagel tells Mary’s enthralling, inspiring, and suspenseful story in vibrant detail. 
   
  “Absorbing . . . required reading for anyone interested in cultural history, as well as the art of biography.” —Booklist 
   
  “A sympathetic and emotionally charged portrait . . . [written] with insight and compassion yet without sentimentality.” —Publishers Weekly 
   
  “A unique life related with animation, admiration, and affection.” —Kirkus Reviews

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  The Secret Life of Plays

  Steve Waters

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  A guide to the hidden workings of plays and the trade secrets that govern their writing - by the acclaimed playwright Steve Waters.
  Drawing on a wide range of drama, both historical and modern, Waters takes the reader through the key elements of dramatic writing - scenes, acts, space, time, characters, language and images - to show how a play is more than the sum of its parts, with as much inner vitality as a living organism.
  Almost uniquely amongst accounts of playwriting, Waters' book looks at the ways in which good plays move their audiences, generating powerful emotional responses that often defy conventional analysis.
  The Secret Life of Plays is for playwrights at any stage of their career, and will inspire and inform drama students as well as working actors and directors. Most of all it is for anyone who has ever laughed or cried in the theatre - and wants to know why.
  'Thrilling... crammed with good, old-fashioned close reading of a diverse range of plays, which means that although Waters does primarily address those who write for the theatre, he does not forget those who like watching and reading it' TLS
  'Essential for aspiring playwrights' Whatsonstage.com

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  A Tale of Charles Dickens

  Paul Lazarus, Janet Dulin Jones

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  An exhilarating epic by the award-winning Antaeus Theatre Company with 16 actors portraying more than 130 characters. London in the 1830's - the most colorful and chaotic city in the world - and young journalist Charles Dickens is uncovering a dark conspiracy of arson and murder. A fanciful look at the man before he became the iconic author we know today. Based on an original screenplay by Janet Dulin Jones.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring John Apicella, Anne Gee Byrd, Jane Carr, Josh Clark, Angela Goethals, Bruce Green, Jeanie Hackett, Joy Jacobson, Michael Kirby, Jeremy Lawrence, Bill Mendieta, Rebecca Mozo, John Prosky, John Sloan, Devon Sorvari, Janellen Steininger and Peter Van Norden.

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