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    • How We Made a Great American Art
    • By: Sam Wasson
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • At the height of the McCarthy era, an experimental theater troupe set up shop in a bar near the University of Chicago. Via word-of-mouth, astonished crowds packed the ad-hoc venue....

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    • A Biography
    • By: Garry O'Connor
    • Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
    • Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In 2001, Ian McKellen put on the robe and pointed hat of a wizard named Gandalf and won a place in the hearts of Tolkien fans worldwide. Though his role in the film adaptation of Lord of the Rings introduced him to a new audience, McKellen had a thriving career a lifetime before that....

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    • By: Doug Wright
    • Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
    • Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 488 ratings
    • This Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning drama tells the fascinating, real-life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a transgender woman who managed to defy insurmountable odds. Based on interviews conducted by the playwright, I Am My Own Wife takes us on a theatrical journey....

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    • By: Jeffrey Seller
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 05-06-25
    • Language: English
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    • From one of the most successful American producers of our time, Jeffrey Seller, who is the only producer to have mounted two Pulitzer Prize-winning musicals—Hamilton and Rent comes a coming-of-age tale, a gripping memoir about fighting through a hardscrabble childhood to make art on one’s own terms.

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    • A Biography
    • By: Michael Coveney
    • Narrated by: Sian Thomas
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm, or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith. Michael Coveney's biography shines a light on the life and career of a truly remarkable performer, one whose stage and screen career spans six decades....

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    • By: W. Anthony Sheppard - editor
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Janet Metzger
    • Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Sondheim in Our Time and His offers a wide-ranging historical investigation of the landmark works and extraordinary career of Stephen Sondheim, a career which has spanned much of the history of American musical theater....

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    • Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
    • By: John Lahr
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Ashley
    • Length: 26 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 221 ratings
    • The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker....

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    • By: Mia Farrow
    • Narrated by: Mia Farrow
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • In an exquisitely written memoir, Mia Farrow introduces us to the landscapes of her extraordinary life. Moving from her earliest memories of the walled gardens and rocky shores...

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Quiara Alegría Hudes
    • Narrated by: Quiara Alegría Hudes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 280 ratings
    • Quiara Alegría Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced their defiance in a tight North Philly kitchen. She was awed by her mother and aunts and cousins, but haunted by the unspoken, untold stories of the barrio....

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    • The Battle for Broadway
    • By: Michael Riedel
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 193 ratings
    • Razzle Dazzle is a provocative, no-holds-barred narrative account of the people, money, and power that reinvented an iconic quarter of New York City....

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    • A Life
    • By: Patti Hartigan
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham, Patti Hartigan
    • Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Author and theater critic Patti Hartigan provides the first authoritative biography of August Wilson, the most important and successful American playwright of the late 20th century....

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    • His Life, His Shows, His Legacy
    • By: Stephen M. Silverman
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Brimming with insights from a veritable Who's Who of Broadway Babies and complemented by more than two hundred color and black-and-white images, Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy offers a witty, multidimensional look at the musical genius....

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    • American Witness
    • By: John Lahr
    • Narrated by: John Rubinstein
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller’s dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights....

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    • Four Pacific Campaigns with the Corps: The Memoirs of an Old Breed Marine
    • By: George Peto, Peter Margaritis - With
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 253 ratings
    • On September 15, 1944, the US First Marine Division landed on a small island in the Central Pacific called Peleliu as a prelude to the liberation of the Philippines. Among the first wave of Marines that hit the beach that day was 22-year-old George Peto....

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    • The Psychiatrist Who Treated the Movie Theater Killer Tells Her Story
    • By: Dr. Lynne Fenton, Kerrie Droban
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • A compelling look at violence and trauma from the psychiatrist who treated mass shooter James Holmes, perpetrator of the infamous movie theater massacre....

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