A gallery of friends, lovers, relatives and theatre acolytes sparkle around stage star Garry Essendine like bubbles in fine champagne. While Garry struggles to plan his upcoming trip to Africa, his elegant London flat is invaded by a love struck ingnue, an adulterous producer and a married seductressnot to mention Garrys estranged wife Liz and the memorable Roland Maule, an aspiring playwright who is quite, quite mad.
"Present Laughter is a very light comedy and was written with the sensible object of providing me with a bravura part.
Nol Coward
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Gregory Cooke, Arthur Hanket, Jon Matthews, Ian Oglivy, Siri O'Neal, Christina Pickles, Carolyn Seymour and Yeardley Smith.
Known as one of the greatest comedies written in English, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest attacks Victorian manners and morals in what can only be described as the most maliciously delicious way. A witty satire of Victorian social hypo...
Pygmalion remains one of the most popular stories – but mainly in the medium of the musical; the evergreen My Fair Lady. But much of the charm and wit comes from the words and timing in Shaw’s original play. Here are the characters ...
Narrator: Anton Lesser, Lucy Whybrow, Geoffrey Palmer, and full cast Published: 02/01/2002
Four classic comedies from one of the wittiest playwrights in Western literature.
Lady Windermeres Fan
The irreverent satire that launched Wildes succession of classical comedies. A Lord, his wife, her admirer and an infamous blackmailer converge i...
In the best known of the Bertie and Jeeves series, Bertie's aunt pressures him to steal a silver creamer, and he nearly gets lynched, arrested and engaged by mistake. As always, Jeeves is on hand with a last-minute brainstorm to set everything strai...
A 1997 recording of Christina Calvits stage adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austens classic romantic comedy is a sparkling tale of the Bennets, a family blessed with five daughters and a mother desperate to marry them off. The tempestuous pa...
Tom Stoppards Arcadia merges science with human concerns and ideals, examining the universes influence in our everyday lives and ultimate fates through relationship between past and present, order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge. Set in ...
Samuel Beckett, one of the great avant-garde Irish dramatists and writers of the second half of the twentieth century, was born on 13 April 1906. He died in 1989. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. His centenary will be celebrated throug...
Narrator: Sean Barrett, David Burke, Terence Rigby, and Nigel Anthony Published: 02/01/2006
This final play from the pen of Oscar Wilde is a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a lost handbag. Jack and Algernon are best friends, both wooing ladies who think their names are ...
A full-cast stage adaptation of Jane Austens classic novel.
The dour, Mr. Darcy is anything but popular with the Bennets, especially when he fancies a member of their clan. And as Elizabeth reluctantly deals with Mr. Darcys advances, their romance ...
