The blowhards, the know-it-alls, the scrupulous and the impecunious are all targets for Shaws incisive wit in his classic satire of the medical profession. A well-respected physician is forced to choose whom he shall save: a bumbling friend or the neer-do-well husband of the woman he loves.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Jane Carr, Gregory Cooke, Kenneth Danziger, Roy Dotrice, Martin Jarvis, Jennifer Dundas Lowe, Simon Templeman, Douglas Weston and Paxton Whitehead.
Includes a conversation with Dr. Neil Wenger, the Director of the Healthcare Ethics Center at the University of California-Los Angeles
The Doctors Dilemma is part of L.A. Theatre Works Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.
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
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
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
