L.A. Theatre Works audio theater recordings are broadcast weekly on public radio stations across the U.S., so LATW is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an original audio play about Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi and the discovery of radio. Learn more and see how to listen!
Experience the World War I drama JOURNEY'S END through an audio theater recording by L.A. Theatre Works, available now.
Writer and director Jonathan Lynn will take over the role of ‘Jim Hacker’ ex-Prime Minister for the upcoming world premiere of I’m Sorry, Prime Minister, I Can’t Quite Remember.
The Barn Theatre in Cirencester has announced principal casting for the world premiere of I'm Sorry, Prime Minister, I Can't Quite Remember. Martin Jarvis will play ex-Prime Minister Jim Hacker and Clive Francis will play his former Permanent Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby. They are joined by Michaela Bennison who will play Hacker's carer Sophie and Christopher Bianchi as High Court judge Sir David Knell.
Actor, producer and director Martin Jarvis OBE (Just William, The Forsyte Saga, Eastenders, Doctor Who) has won the BBC Audio Drama award for Lifetime Achievement, presented at Broadcasting House’s Radio Theatre.
Mischief, madness and merry-making. L.A. Theatre Works, the world’s leading producer of audio theater, will present a state-of-the-art recording of William Shakespeare’s delightful, gender-bending rom-com, Twelfth Night.
L.A. Theatre Works has added Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead to its collection of state-of-the-art audio theater, the largest library of its kind in the world. Rosalind Ayres directs Tom Stoppard’s wildly witty and inventive, Tony Award-winning first play, which is available for pre-order now and for digital download beginning September 2.
Kenneth Danziger, the British actor whose humor and intelligence charmed audiences in London and regional theaters across the United States for decades, died on December 12, 2021. He was 76.
Just opened! Don't miss Michael McManus's brilliantly witty radio theatre play MAGGIE & TED at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford this week, running until Saturday 16th October. Stars Martin Jarvis as 'Ted' Heath and Clare Bloomer as Margaret Thatcher.
“Maggie” Thatcher (Clare Bloomer) and “Ted” Heath (Martin Jarvis) strolled through Westminster earlier this week ahead of their appearance in Michael McManus’s smash hit radio theatre play “Maggie & Ted”.
First look at Martin Jarvis and Clare Bloomer starring as Sir Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher in Michael McManus's acclaimed radio theatre play MAGGIE & TED, set to run at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre from Tuesday 12th October - Saturday 16th October.
Staged as a radio play, the comedy-drama follows 'Ted' Heath and his hilarious and relentless feud with his successor, Margaret Thatcher. For over 20 years Margaret Thatcher and Edward Heath enthralled and appalled the British public with their profound political disagreements, reinforced by their intense personal dislike for one another. Now Maggie and Ted are back!
Maggie & Ted is a highly acclaimed comedy-drama which lifts the lid on the rivalry between two formidable political figures from the same party. The West End début follows a hugely successful sell-out run at the White Bear Theatre in Kennington in 2019 and is the first political play to debut in the West End post lockdown.
Joan (Rebecca Pidgeon) is a devout Catholic and a mother, whose son Michael has mutilated the body of his nice Jewish girlfriend. He awaits trial in prison. Joan will stop at nothing to free him, even blackening the dead girl’s character.
Sarah Drew (Grey’s Anatomy, upcoming Freeform drama Cruel Summer), Seamus Dever (Castle), Joanne Whalley (Daredevil on Netflix, The White Princess on Starz, Showtime’s The Borgias) and Darren Richardson (Ryan Murphy's Hollywood, over 40 radio plays for the BBC) star in the L.A. Theatre Works state-of-the-art audio theater recording of Extinction.
L.A. Theatre Works has announced a 2020-21 Digital Season of nine plays. All plays in the 2020-21 season are being recorded in-studio, using state-of-the-art technology. L.A. Theatre Works is the world's leading producer of audio theater. Each of the recordings will include bonus features, such as interviews with the playwrights and more.
With venues everywhere dark during this extraordinary time, world-class theater from L.A. Theatre Works is just a click away.
L.A. Theatre Works has announced its 2019-20 season of seven plays, each of which will be recorded in front of a live audience for future radio broadcast and online distribution. Performances take place at the James Bridges Theater, located on the campus of UCLA in West Los Angeles. In addition, the company will introduce audiences to its signature style of radio theater at venues across the country during its 16th annual national tour.
West Coast premiere of Spill - When BP's Deepwater Horizon exploded in 2010, eleven men paid the ultimate price and countless thousands who call the Gulf Coast home found their lives irrevocably altered. This powerful work by Emmy Award-nominated writer Leigh Fondakowski (head writer of The Laramie Project) goes beyond the headlines to tell vivid personal stories from all sides. Based on interviews, photographs and court documents collected in the aftermath, Spill explores the rich culture of Louisiana's Gulf Coast and the resilient nature of its inhabitants in the face of natural destruction and tragedy. Their stories, told in their own words. Directed byMartin Jarvis and featuring Jane Kaczmarek and James Morrison.
Virtuosity and imagination combine in one utterly unique event, as Tony and Emmy Award winner John Lithgow creates a singularly intimate evening.
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