Emily Bergl
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Set in New York in the late 1950s, the biographical drama Fur explores an unlikely romance that leads Diane Arbus (**Academy Award** winner Nicole Kidman - The Hours, Birth) into a strange new world, sparking her evolution into one of the most provocative and visionary photographers of all time. As a photographer, she seeks out "the forbidden" in New York City's most sordid haunts, transmuting her own terror into art. Her unsettling photographs make...
2) Fever, 1793
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In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
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A crumbling convent school is on the verge of insolvency, when a young postulant begins to display strange heavenly powers. And when a dashing film executive arrives to buy the rights to her story, the Reverend Mother refuses to put profits over prayer. Playwright Charles Busch made his name with genre-skewering hits like Psycho Beach Party, Die Mommie Die, and The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, which L.A. Theatre Works recorded in 2007. This time...
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L.A. Theatre Works presents Five Short Stories by Women: A quintet of tales from some of America's most distinguished female authors.
Life after High School, by Joyce Carol Oates, Read by Sarah Drew
Oates takes us to a time in the late 1950s, to South Lebanon High School, and shows us the lives of three people at a time of self-discovery.
The Banks of the Vistula, by Rebecca Lee, Read by Emily Bergl
An ambitious student wants desperately to make...
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Starring Mark Ruffalo, Clifford Odets' 1935 masterpiece brings to urgent life the struggles of a working-class family aspiring to the promise of the American Dream. Even as they endure the country's worst economic nightmare, three generations of an immigrant family are crowded into a Bronx tenement, fiercely determined to stay afloat, no matter what the cost.
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Molière wrote some of the most durable and penetrating comedies of all time. The Imaginary Cuckold and The School for Husbands are two of his grand farces of marriage and misunderstanding, one set in Paris and the other in the provinces. In The School for Husbands, a tyrannical husband-to-be seeks to isolate his ward, while unwittingly carrying her messages of devotion to her lover. In The Imaginary Cuckold an enraged husband imagines his wife is...
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Algernon is a gentlemen from a wealthy family. Algernon's close friend Jack, has a ward, Cecily. Both Algernon and Jack have created alter egos to make life more interesting. Algernon arrives for a weekend visit in the country posing as Earnest. Having heard of Earnest's misadventures, Cicely has developed an infatuation with the rogue, and Algernon's impersonation of him works famously on Cicely. Meanwhile, Algernon's cousin, Gwendolyn, arrives for...
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Orphaned Jane journeys from a harsh childhood to become the loving caregiver of a child at the mysterious manor of Mr. Rochester. Jane is drawn to her enigmatic employer, but as dark secrets emerge, she must choose between her newfound security and the uncertainty of a life lived for oneself. Adapted by Christine Calvit.
