Showing results for "Arts" in Audio Performances & Dramatisations

As a young boy growing up on the outskirts of Dublin, the stage and screen legend sought refuge in a world of imagination among the fields and hills near his home, at the edge of a rapidly encroaching city. Moving between sensual recollection of childhood in a now almost vanished Ireland and commentary on stardom, the actor-writer returned to Broadway and Audible to reflect on a life’s journey.

Bloomsday on Broadway celebrates June 16, 1904, the most famous fictional date in literature, when Leopold Bloom walked around Dublin in the pages of James Joyce's Ulysses. Since 1981, hundreds of acclaimed actors have joined avid Joyceans, writers, critics, and scholars on stage at Symphony Space to read selections from the book that heralded the birth of modern literature.

Brilliant detective Sam Spade is the quintessential private eye, with his own code of ethics. When a standard stakeout goes wrong and Spade’s partner is killed, he finds himself drawn into the hunt for a fantastic treasure of dubious origin—a golden bird encrusted with jewels. But he’s not the only one on the trail of the falcon. Hot on his heels are Joel Cairo, a perfumed grifter; an oversized adventurer named Gutman; and Spade’s new client Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a beautiful but treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a hat.

An Edward G. Robinson Festival is a collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities of the great film actor-written, produced, and performed by Joe Bevilacqua. Bonus tracks feature remastered classic radio dramas. This set includes "If We All Talked Like Allen Jenkins", "Murder is a Merry-Go-Round", "The Reflection", "Hobo Hawk", "Willaby Meets the Godfather", "The Man who Wanted to be Edward G. Robinson", "The Trap", and "Key Largo".

Moving stories about married couples' powerful and complicated loves, read by actors Frances Sternhagen, Robert Sean Leonard, Keir Dullea, Joanna Gleason, Harold Gould and Joanne Woodward. A native couple's rocky college love affair lasts a lifetime in Do You Know Where I Am by Sherman Alexie. In Karen E. Bender's Eternal Love, a mother nervously chaperones her retarded daughter's honeymoon.

Als der junge Student Anselmus versehentlich ein unheimliches Apfelweib umstößt, setzt er einen schrecklichen Fluch in Gang. An seinem ersten Arbeitstag beim Geheimen Archivarius erscheint sie ihm am Türknauf und verspielt ihm fast seine Anstellung. Als er dann von einem Spiegel geblendet wird, den seine Verehrerin Veronika vom Apfelweib erhielt, verschüttet er Tinte auf den Text des Archivarius, der ihn genau hiervor strengstens gewarnt hat.

Inspired by extensive interviews following the 2014 shooting of Black teenager Michael Brown by white Police Officer Darren Wilson, Orlandersmith gives equal voice and embodies the many faces of a community haunted by injustice, in a country yearning for change. Until The Flood is a tour de force solo performance that explores the dark forces of American history, race, and politics that exploded in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, and sent shock waves across the nation.

When H. G. Wells first published The War of The Worlds in 1898, the novel quickly became a sci-fi classic. The story of extraterrestrials from Mars invading Earth captured the public’s imagination, inspiring a famed 1938 radio broadcast with Orson Welles, several feature films, countless video games, and a best-selling musical concept album by Jeff Wayne in 1978, among others.

In five autobiographical vignettes, Charlayne Woodard tells the moving and inspirational tale of her African-American family through three generations of love, struggle, and triumph.

Cyrano is a brash, strong-willed man of many talents whose whimsical aptitude for the spoken word is overshadowed by an attribute that is iconic, outrageous, and gigantic - his nose. How can the curiously snouted Cyrano ever hope to win the affections of the beautiful Roxane?

The story of the world's longest running musical. Les Miserables has been a globally successful musical for 30 years and continues to delight and move audiences around the world, and there is no sign of it slowing down.

From the early days in Paris through to Cameron Mackintosh becoming involved, through to the Oscar winning movie, this marvellous story is told by the people involved; the composers, producers, singers, and actors.

Die Zwillinge Loveth und Grace aus Edo State versuchen in einer Realität aus Gewalt und Grauen zu überleben. Sie werden auf dem europäischen Menschenmarkt angeboten und an die Meistbietenden weiterverkauft. Mit Lucy, einer Leidensgenossin, schmieden sie in der blauen Stadt einen mörderischen Plan, um den Kreislauf aus Hoffnungslosigkeit und Verzweiflung zu entkommen. Der Aufstand beginnt... In einer Mischung aus Dokumentation und Hörspiel erzählt dieses Hörbuch atmosphärisch dicht über Frauen, die aus Westafrika nach Europa fliehen.

We've all seen that lone shopping cart sitting on the edge of a parking lot. Who goes and gets it and brings it home? The cart wrangler, of course.

Brimming with easy humor, fantasy, and wisdom, David Ossman - of Firesign Theatre fame - gives the performance of a lifetime in this theatrical full-length monologue backed by a crack Kansas City jazz trio and recorded before a live audience at the Brick in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, on June 6, 2018.

Mixing voice, eclectic jazz, and sound effects, this performance breaks sound-art boundaries and may even break your heart.

Angesichts der gewaltigen Herausforderungen durch die Klimakrise erscheinen die bekannten Gegenmaßnahmen dem Bürger als moralische Verpflichtung, gleichzeitig aber auch als Bedrohung seines Status quo. Eine moralisierend geführte Debatte führt dabei zwangsläufig zur Unterscheidung zwischen Gut und Böse, dem polarisierenden Gesellschaftsspiel, in welchem bekanntlich beide Seiten verführerisch wirken können, weil offen oder verborgen alles in uns allen schlummert.

Das St. Galler Passionsspiel ist überliefert in einer St. Galler Handschrift aus dem Anfang des 13. Jahrhunderts. Es verbindet ein vollständiges Passions- und Osterspiel (ohne Krämerszene). Der Autor ist unbekannt. Ausführlich schildert es Szenen aus dem Leben Jesu, in denen Christus als Wunderwirkender in den Vordergrund tritt. Das Widerspiel der Mächte zeigt sich in verschiedenen Szenen.

Iwan ist zynischer Atheist, sein Bruder Aljoscha friedsamer Mönch. Unaufhörlich kreisen die beiden um die Frage: Gibt es Gott? Im Streitgespräch ersinnt Iwan schließlich eine Geschichte, die seinen Bruder zur Vernunft bringen soll - vom Großinquisitor, der in Sevilla Jesus gefangen nimmt, um ihn im Namen der katholischen Kirche zum Tode zu verurteilen.

An abridged version of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. Anna (Bergman) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Peck).

Genç yaşta dul kalmış ve bir daha evlenmemeye yemin etmiş Bayan Popov’un evine davetsiz bir alacaklı gelir. Kadının kocasından kalan borcunu istemektedir. Ancak beklenmedik bir şekilde birbirlerinden etkilenmişlerdir. Tam kadro seslendirme ile sinematik sesli kitabı yaşayın.

Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were based on works by the world's leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov. These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first instalment of theatrical history.

Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were based on works by the world's leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov. These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first instalment of theatrical history.