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L.A. Theatre Works brings the dynamic talents of Nathan Lane, Jimmy Smits, Hilary Swank, Kelsey Grammer, Laurence Fishburne and many more performing in captivating works by David Mamet, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller and others. Each two-hour show has been produced into two one-hour segments that include celebrity interviews and behind-the-scenes features. L.A. Theatre Works is radio drama that is contemporary, edgy and significant. Upcoming LA Theater Works: God’s Man in Texas: Whether you’re selling cars, real estate- or salvation – if you don’t meet your numbers, you’re in trouble. It can even happen to the beloved head of a Houston megachurch, who won’t relinquish control of his pulpit even as the competition to replace him heats up. Robert Pescovitz, W. Morgan Sheppard, and Andy Taylor star in God’s Man in Texas by David Rambo. Next time on L.A. Theatre Works.
Upcoming episodes
Doctor Cerberus May 29, 2013 | 7:00 pm
This week's installment of L.A. Theatre Works features a performance of "Doctor Cerberus" by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.Read More
Recent episodes
Fallen Angels this week! May 22, 2013 | 7:00 pm
This week's edition of L.A. Theatre Works features a performance of Noel Coward's "Fallen Angels".Read More
Mr. Rickey Calls A Meeting May 15, 2013 | 7:00 pm
Kansas City native, Ed Asner portrays Branch Rickey, the man who brought Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers.Read More
M. Butterfly May 8, 2013 | 7:00 pm
John Lithgow and B.D. Wong recreate their original roles from the Tony Award-winning production. Inspired by an actual espionage scandal, a French diplomat discovers the startling truth about his Chinese mistress.Read More
Work Song: Three Views on Frank Lloyd Wright May 1, 2013 | 7:00 pm
This week's edition of L.A. Theatre Works will feature the play Work Song: Three Views on Frank Lloyd Wright by Jeffrey Hatcher, starring Robert Foxworth and Amy Brenneman.Read More
A View from the Bridge April 24, 2013 | 7:00 pm
A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller. Starring Ed O’Neill, Mary McDonnell, Harry Hamlin, Amy Pietz.Read More
Chavez Ravine April 17, 2013 | 7:00 pm
On L.A. Theatre Works this week, the play Chavez Ravine is performed by Culture Clash.Read More
“Headstrong” by Patrick Link April 10, 2013 | 7:00 pm
This week's production is of the play "Headstrong" by Patrick Link, starring Ernie Hudson and Deirdrie Henry.Read More
“Ruby McCollum” April 3, 2013 | 7:00 pm
This week's L.A. Theatre Works features the play Ruby McCollum by Ron Milner, Steve Albrezzi, and William Bradford Huie. Starring Loretta Devine, Paul Winfield, Shirley Knight.Read More
The Night Watcher March 27, 2013 | 7:00 pm
Two-time Obie award-winner and Tony Award® nominee Charlayne Woodard makes the stage her stomping grounds. In this luminous romp, the subject is motherhood. And no matter how many times she says “no,” Woodard’s maternal instincts keep getting called into action.Read More
Mrs. Klein March 20, 2013 | 7:00 pm
The air is thick with Freud and sex as eminent psychoanalyst Melanie Klein comes roaring to life in a 1930s drawing room. London offers the witty, overbearing Mrs. Klein refuge from rising European fascism. But perhaps her children are still in need of refuge from her. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Lindsay Crouse, Julie Harris and JoBeth Williams.Read More
Awake and Sing March 13, 2013 | 7:00 pm
Starring Mark Ruffalo, Clifford Odets 1935 masterpiece brings to urgent life the struggles of a working-class family aspiring to the promise of the American Dream. Even as they endure the country s worst economic nightmare, three generations of an immigrant family are crowded into a Bronx tenement, fiercely determined to stay afloat, no matter what the cost.Read More
The Credeaux Canvas March 6, 2013 | 7:00 pm
Ah, to be young, gifted and broke! Three strugling artists swindle an art collector in Keith Bunin's critically acclaimed play, starring Hilary Swank.Read More
A Raisin in the Sun February 27, 2013 | 7:00 pm
A Raisin in the Sun is a seminal American drama and a heroic testament of hope. This new recording of Lorraine Hansberry s classic play, starring Rutina Wesley from the HBO hit series True Blood, chronicles a working class African American family struggling to maintain dignity in a harsh world. With her late husband s insurance money finally in hand, Mama Lena dreams of moving to a better home. However, her children have other plans: Walter Lee wants to buy a liquor store, and Beneatha wants to go to medical school. What happens when family dreams drastically diverge?Read More
The Prisoner of Second Avenue February 20, 2013 | 7:00 pm
Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, and Neil Simon strike comic gold in this classic tale of a married couple trying to survive life in their New York apartment building. Fresh from their wildly successful West End revival, Dreyfuss and Mason "effortlessly convey the abrasions - and affection - of a longtime marriage," says Variety.Read More
Beloved Clara February 13, 2013 | 7:00 pm
In Beloved Clara, the intense relationships between Robert Schumann, his wife Clara, and Johannes Brahms are brought to vivid life through music and excerpts from their passionate writings. With the arrival of the young, dynamic Brahms into their household, the Schumanns’ fragile marriage is threatened by the deepening bond between Clara and their gifted guest.Read More
Fabulation February 6, 2013 | 7:00 pm
Knocked-up and seriously broke, a successful publicist is plunged into a topsy-turvy world of welfare mothers and drug addicts, and forced to confront the family she left behind. Fabulationis a darkly comic rags-to-riches-to-rags tale of falling down and reaching up to find the goodness within.Read More
The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams January 30, 2013 | 7:00 pm
The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams. Starring Anthony LaPaglia and Mercedes Ruehl.Read More
Tape & American Appeties January 23, 2013 | 7:00 pm
Two dark, offbeat stories about lust and ambition Tape airs at 6pm. American Appetites airs at 7pmRead More
Pride and Prejudice January 16, 2013 | 7:00 pm
Written by Jane Austen. Adapted by Christina Calvit. Starring Julia McIlvane, Nick Toren, and Jane CarrRead More
End Days January 9, 2013 | 7:00 pm
As we breathe a big sigh of relief that the Mayan calendar-inspired doomsayers were wrong, we turn to another story about the Last Judgment in Debra Zoe Laufer's End Days. Here, a middle-American housewife has found salvation, and is preparing for the Rapture, while her rebellious teenage daughter wants nothing to do with it. But when a bookish young suitor in an Elvis suit comes calling, her daughter experiences an unexpected revelation of her own.Read More
Major Barbara January 2, 2013 | 7:00 pm
George Bernard Shaw said in 1933, "You must always let yourself think about everything. And you must think about everything as it is, not as it is talked about... We should never accept anything reverently without asking it a great many very searching questions.” Shaw asks “a great many searching questions” about power, wisdom, salvation, and survival in Major Barbara, in which the ideals of conventional morality are brought to bear on the ambiguities of the real world.Read More
Galileo December 19, 2012 | 7:00 pm
One of the brightest lights of the Scientific Revolution wants the world to see itself anew. But even the courage of his convictions can’t save the great Galileo Galilei from the guardians of the status quo. Stacy Keach stars in Bertolt Brecht’s The Life of Galileo, in a new version by David Hare.Read More
The Seagull December 12, 2012 | 7:00 pm
Actors, and the stages they play upon, have long been a ripe subject for the theatre. From the madcap antics of Noises Off, to the “rude mechanicals” of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a number of plays have explored human folly and frailty through the lens of acting itself. But few plays have captured the nuances of identity, ego, aspiration, and idealism that go on “behind the scenes” like Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull: This week on L.A. Theatre Works.Starring Calista Flockhart and T.R. Knight.
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Tooth and Claw December 5, 2012 | 7:00 pm
The Galapagos Islands of Ecuador have long been considered a crown jewel of pristine nature. First made famous by Charles Darwin, who developed his theory of evolution while visiting the islands, the Galapagos have since struggled with their celebrity, trying to balance the desire for conservation with the demands of tourism and the needs of the local population. Playwright Michael Hollinger spun these overlapping tensions into a rich and compelling story, Tooth and Claw, loosely based on true events which occurred there in the 1990s.Read More
The Grapes of Wrath November 28, 2012 | 7:00 pm
John Steinbeck's masterpiece of hard times and hope. The Grapes of Wrath tells the powerful story of the Joad family’s trek from the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma to the promise of a new life in California. But what they find threatens to rip apart their lives, and sever the ties that bind them together. Frank Galati’s heart-wrenching adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel finds its timeless heart in the generous spirit of the common man.Read More
Blue/Orange November 21, 2012 | 7:00 pm
About one percent of Americans have schizophrenia, according to the National Institutes of Mental Health. There is no known cure, and its treatment can be frustratingly complex. Our story this week concerns a young man named Christopher, who is about to be discharged from psychiatric supervision in a London hospital. But his clinicians disagree about the seriousness of his condition, and his release becomes complicated by issues of race, class, and the definition of sanity itself.Read More
The Misanthrope November 14, 2012 | 7:00 pm
The lead character in our story this week would probably despise Facebook, and he’d never be found on Twitter. In fact, if there were an anti-social network, he’d most likely be a charter member. His name is Alceste, and he’s the unlikely hero of the French playwright Moliere’s celebrated comedy, The Misanthrope. The play is arguably Moliere’s most insightful work, one which illustrates his profound disdain for the mores of 17th-century French society.Read More
Fake November 7, 2012 | 7:00 pm
Oscar-winning and Tony-nominated writer and director Eric Simonson explores the most famous archeological hoax in history. Alternating between 1914 and 1953, journalists and scientists set out to uncover who planted the Piltdown Man skull. Everyone's a suspect, including legendary Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Read More
War of the Worlds / The Lost World October 31, 2012 | 7:00 pm
Join actors from Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation as they recreate this classic radio thriller. The breathless pace and convincing details make it clear why the 1938 broadcast of an "eyewitness report" of an invasion from Mars caused a nationwide panic.Read More
Lost in Yonkers October 24, 2012 | 7:00 pm
n Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize-winner, it’s 1942, and teenaged brothers Arty and Jay are forced to live with their stern grandma and their ditzy Aunt Bella. And as they scheme to survive the ordeal, their shady Uncle Louie shows up with a mysterious suitcase… and a gun.Read More
Anna in the Tropics October 17, 2012 | 7:00 pm
Jimmy Smits stars in the 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning play from Nilo Cruz. This poignant and poetic drama captures 1929 Florida at a time when cigars are still rolled by hand and "lectors" are employed to educate and entertain the workers. The arrival of a new lector is a cause for celebration. But when he reads aloud from "Anna Karenina", he unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners.Read More
The Importance of Being Earnest October 10, 2012 | 7:00 pm
“Truth,” said Oscar Wilde, “is independent of facts always, inventing or selecting them at pleasure.” Wilde’s topsy-turvy farce is rife with mistaken identities, misguided lovers and a misplaced handbag. But it also takes a serious swipe at hypocrisy and the constraints of morality – subjects that never go out of style.The Importance of Being Earnest stars James Marsters as Jack Worthing, Matthew Wolf as Algernon Moncrieff, and Charles Busch as Lady Bracknell. With Emily Bergl, Jill Gascoine, Sarah Zimmerman, Neil Dickson, and Christopher Neame.
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Six Degrees of Separation October 3, 2012 | 7:00 pm
A wealthy couple helps a charismatic young man who's been mugged. He claims to be a friend of their children, and the son of movie star Sidney Poitier. Is he the real thing, or a clever, complicated con man? Alan Alda, Swoosie Kurtz, and Chuma Hunter-Gault star in John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation.Read More
Mizlansky/Zilinsky September 26, 2012 | 7:00 pm
Italian shoes, a house in the hills, a gift for stretching the truth, and a petulant assistant to pick the scallions out of his Szechuan noodles - Hollywood producer Davis Mizlansky (Nathan Lane) has it all. But he's about to lose it to the IRS unless he can pull off one more deal. A stellar cast performs this hilarious send-up of modern-day Hollywood. With Simpsons stars Julie Kavner and Harry ShearerRead More
Opus September 19, 2012 | 7:00 pm
The Lazara Quartet has just fired one of its members, and his replacement is wary of the group’s reputation for personal, violent quarrels. And as they prepare for a command performance at the White House, they’re haunted by their former colleague’s sudden disappearance.Read More
The Real Dr. Strangelove September 12, 2012 | 7:00 pm
The birth of Armageddon: the first H-bomb detonates, and the proud father is Edward Teller. But he's on a collision course with Robert Oppenheimer, the inventor of the bomb that obliterated Hiroshima. Oppenheimer has turned pacifist, and the government will stop at nothing to "neutralize" him. And Teller is their star witness!Read More
Call All News Junkies… Again September 5, 2012 | 7:00 pm
KKFI brings perspectives that you'll hear nowhere else in town. For the Second Wednesday in a row, we'll be pre-empting LA Theatre Works so that we can bring you the coverage of the convention that doesnt' follow the script. At 6pm, we'll bring you the full half hour of Free Speech Radio News, followed at 6:30 by Al Jazeera evening News. Then, at 7pm, we'll bring you one hour of Pacifica's UnConventional Coverage. 90.1FM is the place to be from 6 to 8. LA Theatre Works will be back next week.Read More
Calling all News Junkies! August 29, 2012 | 7:00 pm
LA Theatre Works will be pre-empted this week and next for Free Speech Radio News, Al jazeera evening news, and Pacifica's UnConvenional RNC coverage.Read More
The Road to Mecca August 15, 2012 | 7:00 pm
The true story of a reclusive elderly woman who created a fantastical world of light and sculpture in her small South African village. But her inner life has come under threat from her wary and superstitious neighbors. Julie Harris stars alongside Amy Irving and Harris Yulin in Athol Fugard’s The Road to Mecca.Read More
A Huey P. Newton Story written and performed by Roger Guenveur Smith. August 8, 2012 | 7:00 pm
In his brilliantly imagined, Obie Award-winning show, Roger Guenveur Smith explores the life of the controversial Black Panther leader through a series of improvisations based on Newton's own words and writings. Biography, satire, and socio-political commentary blend within a landscape of fantastic sound design to create a provocative, surreal and always surprising portrait of the complex times in which he lived.Read More
Marvin’s Room August 1, 2012 | 7:00 pm
A father and his daughter are dying. As the fractured family pulls itself together, will their pain give way to a new understanding? Mary Steenburgen, Jason Ritter, and Roxanne Hart star in Marvin’s Room by Scott McPherson.Read More
Look Back in Anger July 25, 2012 | 7:00 pm
Jimmy Porter is one of the stage’s most iconic misanthropes. He's the original “angry young man” in John Osborne’s classic play, Look Back in Anger: a portrait of the dreams and the disillusionment of three young Londoners in the mid-1950s. As Jimmy relentlessly harangues his wife Alison and their best mate Cliff, the three friends orbit one another in a dance of intimacy, hope, and doubt.Read More
Orson’s Shadow July 18, 2012 | 7:00 pm
Orson's Shadow by Austin Pendleton. Starring Martin Jarvis, Robert Machray, and Glenne Headley.Read More
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