Bus Stop

By: William Inge

Narrated by: Megan Anderson, Terrence Currier, Rachel Miner, Anson Mount, Kyle Prue, Lynnie Raybuck, Jefferson Russell

Bus Stop was an immediate commercial and critical success on Broadway in 1955.

During a winter storm, a busload of weary travelers are forced to shack up at a roadside diner until morning. Inge was renowned for his in-depth character studies, and Bus Stop is no exception. It offers a warm play about the intersecting lives of eight ordinary people.

Public Domain (P)2009 L.A. Theatre Works

Well acted!

This is one of the better productions on LATW. I really enjoyed it Well performed and fine writing.

Love this production

This play could be deadly dull in the wrong hands, but not this production. The direction and acting are top notch. I felt a little goofy listening to it the first time, but it’s been a welcome companion for almost 15 years now. Highly recommended!

'50s values beware.

Bus Stop. Perhaps better known to most as the 1956 movie adaptation with Marilyn Monroe. To say that it has not aged well is perhaps a bit unfair, but the naivité and '50s mores is distracting.

I have listened to other L.A Theatre Works plays. They were usually good productions. This however suffers a bit from the "too speedy line delivery syndrome". (I made that up). I.e. the actors getting their lines in too fast, instead of reacting to what is said before. Gets better in the final act though.

The audience is strangely quiet until the end of act three, where some laughs are heard. I actually thought it was a studio production in the beginning.

Final word: Not bad, but entirely missable.

Meh. Feels as old as it is.

Meh. Feels as old as it is. Probably groundbreaking or insightful in 1955 but boring, cliché, and predictable today. A good glimpse into a small part of America in the 1950s. Dialogue is so-so. 1950s America in all its narrow minded and small life glory. I say that as a nice contemporary spyglass into the past.