Storytelling

One night in 1995, author Douglas Adams kidnapped an audience and held them hostage for 70 minutes at London's Almeida Theatre....

When his son gets a school assignment on heroes, John seizes the chance to teach him all about the great figures of the Latino world. But once he sets out on his irreverent crash course across three continents and 3,000 years of history....

Patti Smith: Words and Music features live audio of performances captured over three evenings at the Minetta Lane Theatre, woven into a single, one-of-a-kind audio event....

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....

Selected Shorts now presents a collection of four of Edith Wharton's short stories, recorded live at the Mount....

Equally comedic and insightful, Letting Go of God is Julia Sweeney's brilliant one-woman show about her struggle with her faith....

In one year Julia Sweeney got a divorce (amicable), bought a bungalow in Hollywood, and looked forward to a life that said, "Here dwells a happily single young woman!" But then the axe fell....

Colin Quinn is back and not a moment too soon. The satirical sage from Brooklyn returns with Colin Quinn: Red State Blue State, where he lays bare the absurdities, hypocrisies, and calamities on both sides of the political divide....

A Grammy-nominated recording artist, Bill Harley - songwriter, storyteller, author, playwright - is known as one of the finest family performers in the United States...

Julia Sweeney: Older & Wider is the latest one-person show from renowned monologist and former SNL comedian. She tells stories about her family: her daughter, her husband, and her mother. Poignant and funny. This show had successful theater runs in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles....

These wacky, but true, stories from growing up are about trying to figure out how the adult world works...

Whether performing his original tales or retelling an old classic, Bill Harley is one of the liveliest...

Selected Shorts is an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors....

Selected Shorts: Falling in Love presents a collection of stirring tales of love and longing....

Discover the power and passion of the spoken words of Scripture, as Marquis Laughlin brings to life classic stories from his live performances of the Bible....

The definitive Un-Cabaret audio features seriously funny one-of-a-kind stories....

Mike Daisey is a fierce storyteller, one minute hilarious, the next minute sweet, with a fine-tuned ear for digression....

Selected Shorts: Travel Tales presents a collection of classic travel experiences....

Recorded at The State Theatre of Maine at Lakewood in the spring of 1983, footage from this performance became the basis of Tim’s first prime-time TV special on Maine PBS....

Remember 6th grade, where the question, "Are you cool?" takes on cosmic proportions? Acclaimed...

The entire book of Daniel from the Old Testament is brought to life by performance artist Marquis Laughlin....

There’s an interesting story behind the title of this audio, which was recorded at the Crooker Theatre in Brunswick, Maine in the summer of 1997....

The Teachers' Lounge is Bill Harley's newest spoken word recording: a collection of hilarious and dead-on observations about life in elementary school....

Moving stories about married couples' powerful and complicated loves, read by actors Frances Sternhagen, Robert Sean Leonard, Keir Dullea, Joanna Gleason....

The classics from "The Pride of Brooklyn" are here in this collection - the best of four of Pat's albums....