Risultati per "Americana" in Teatro e spettacoli

Un secolo fa, con l’Antologia di Spoon River e i suoi oltre 200 immortali personaggi che popolano un piccolo cimitero di campagna, Edgar Lee Masters ha consegnato ai posteri la memoria poetica di una comunità. Cent’anni dopo, quei personaggi trovano una voce nuova grazie a 243 ragazzi e ragazze e alla loro interpretazione spontanea, da attori per un giorno. Così il microcosmo umano che era ieri un’immaginaria cittadina dell’Illinois rivive oggi in un progetto con le scuole dall’altra parte del mondo.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. How do you fight a ghost who controls the very machine hunting him? Eugene Terrell Barkley has spent his life training for a fight he never saw coming. A disciplined Seido Juku karate expert with a voice built to command a room, Eugene grew up in the...

In the 1880's, an American senator observes, with some perplexity, English country life and all of its social echelons. To add some spice along the way, we follow the romances and intrigues of the flirtatious Arabella Trefoil.

In this wild satire, a Mexican immigrant has a feverish dream while studying for his American citizenship exam. He meets a parade of characters ranging from Sacagawea to Teddy Roosevelt to Jackie Robinson, who take him on a mind-bending, hilarious, and poignant trip through American history

L.A. Theatre Works' exclusive dramatization of Joyce Carol Oates' best selling novel shows a close-knit group of prestigious scholars in the affluent '80s blown apart by tragedy and scandal. A sophisticated, witty, and chilling tale.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein spins a comic and moving tale about the pitfalls that await female political appointees. On the eve of Dr. Lyssa Dent Hughes' nomination as Surgeon General, a witty and dangerous cast of characters stir the calm waters of her Georgetown home.

Based on National Book Award-winner Joyce Carol Oates' novella about the Chappaquiddick scandal, this tragic and beautiful new opera enthralls as a handsome Senator uses power to enchant, seduce, and carelessly destroy.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In Part II of The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald pushes Anthony Patch and Gloria further into a world where privilege can no longer protect them from disappointment. Money, marriage, ambition, and expectation begin to collide as their...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald follows Anthony Patch and Gloria Gilbert as love, privilege, and ambition collide with the seductive excess of early twentieth-century New York. Part I introduces their glamorous world of wealth...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In Part III of The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald brings Anthony Patch and Gloria to the final stage of their decline. The glamour that once defined their lives gives way to frustration, damaged ambition, and the consequences of years shaped...

L.A. Theatre Works presents four plays about the Japanese American experience during and after World War II: Sisters Matsumoto, Hold These Truths, For Us All, and No-No Boy.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald follows Anthony Patch and Gloria Gilbert through the glittering excess of Jazz Age New York, where privilege, pleasure, and expectation gradually give way to disillusionment. As wealth replaces purpose...

Blackstone Audio presents An American Family Shakespeare Entertainment: Based on Charles & Mary Lamb's 20 Tales From Shakespeare, augmented by miscellaneous scenes and soliloquies from Shakespeare's plays, featuring Elizabethan songs and dances in new arrangements for stringed instruments.

In this second volume of Blackstone’s audio theater production of An American Family Shakespeare Entertainment, a full cast of award-winning narrators present miscellaneous scenes and soliloquies from Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Timon of Athens, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and...

When a group of American professors gathers in London to teach a theatre course, the sparks fly as they squabble over academic politics, with egos, reputations, and careers at stake.

An American expatriate in France finds himself caught between competing criminals, U.S. intelligence, and a Corsican who just wants to find his girl. A work of serial audio fiction. To read a polished and published prequel to this story go here.

Step into the charged summer of 1776 as young Elias Carter, along with Mara Whitcombe and Jacob Turner, is drawn into the dangerous work of carrying the newly printed Declaration of Independence through the streets of Philadelphia. Set against the heat, secrecy, and uncertainty of the American...

Jeffrey Combs gives an electrifying performance in “Nevermore, An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe”. Recorded before a live audience in Boston, Poe, with all of his passions, foibles, aspirations, and demons, comes vividly to life in this bravura, one-person play. Playwright Dennis Paoli...

The Provincetown Players created a revolution in American theatre, making room for truly modern approaches to playwriting, stage production, and performance. In Staging America, Jeffery Kennedy gives the unabridged story in a meticulously researched and comprehensive narrative that sheds new light on the history of the Provincetown Players. At the center of the study is an extensive account of the career of George Cram Cook, the Players' leader and artistic conscience, as well as one of the most significant facilitators of modernist writing in early twentieth-century American literature.

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