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The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95) | Audio CD ($20.76)
In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town.
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Tartuffe
by Moliere
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95)
Initially banned in France by King Louis, Molière's celebrated social satire Tartuffe exposes false piety and hypocrisy in the Catholic Church. When a pious fraud worms his way into a wealthy family
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD ($23.18) | Audio Cassette
In writing this extraordinary play Shakespeare effectively re-invented tragedy after an interval of roughly two thousand years - you would have to go back to the Greek dramatists of 5th century Athens to find anything of comparable depth and maturity.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95)
Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression follows the western movement of one family and a nation in search of work and human dignity. Stars Jeffrey Donovan and Shirley Knight.
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Aristotle's Poetics
by Aristotle
Available on: Audio Download ($7.50)
Aristotle claimed “poetry is more philosophical and more significant than history.” In this postmodern era it is worthwhile to consider Aristotle’s way of connecting beauty, truth, and goodness.
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The Member of the Wedding
by Carson McCullers
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95) | Audio CD
One of the most beautiful plays ever written about loneliness and love.
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The Rivalry
by Norman Corwin
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95) | Audio CD ($25.95)
Academy Award-nominees Paul Giamatti and David Strathairn star in Norman Corwin's electrifying dramatization of the historymaking Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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Side Man
by Warren Leight
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95)
Side Man follows the haphazard career of a talented but self-absorbed jazz trumpeter over the course of three decades.
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Broken Glass
by Arthur Miller
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95)
Though safe in Brooklyn, Sylvia suddenly becomes partially paralysed when reading about the events of Kristallnacht.
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The House of Blue Leaves
by John Guare
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95) | Audio CD ($25.95)
This poignant Obie Award-winning comedy unfolds in New York City on the day the Pope is expected to visit.
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