The Traverse Area District Library will add The Drama Collection: 250 Quintessential Recorded Plays presented by L.A. Theatre Works, to its lending audiobook collection.
From Sophocles to Sam Shepard, from Romeo and Juliet to A Raisin in the Sun, with a particular focus on the American canon of dramatic literature, this comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary plays on audiobook is a treasure trove for theatre and book lovers, students and teachers, actors and dramatists.
From Sophocles to Sam Shepard, from Romeo and Juliet to A Raisin in the Sun, with a particular focus on the American canon of dramatic literature, this comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary plays on audiobook is a treasure trove for theatre and book lovers, students and teachers, actors and dramatists.
The Drama Collection will be on shelves and available for check out by mid-December.
With the recent extraction of the library's Cassette Book collection, TADL's audiobooks on CD are in high demand. "We have not reduced the collection in any way, only enhanced it," said Betsy Meyers, TADL librarian responsible for ordering audiobooks on CD. "I have a feeling patrons will really enjoy The Drama Collection as an addition to our audiobook collection," she said.
The Drama Collection includes:
With the recent extraction of the library's Cassette Book collection, TADL's audiobooks on CD are in high demand. "We have not reduced the collection in any way, only enhanced it," said Betsy Meyers, TADL librarian responsible for ordering audiobooks on CD. "I have a feeling patrons will really enjoy The Drama Collection as an addition to our audiobook collection," she said.
The Drama Collection includes:
• 250 plays, spanning 25 years of recorded drama
• 500 audio CDs with over 450 hours of full-cast performances
• 25 volumes, available exclusively as a collected box set
• Over 200 playwrights and authors, including world classics by William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Molière, Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw and Henrik Ibsen, alongside the very best of American and international contemporary playwrights, including Arthur Miller, Lorraine Hansberry, Neil Simon, Joyce Carol Oates, Sam Shepard, Wendy Wasserstein, David Mamet, Tom Stoppard, Yasmina Reza, Alan Ayckbourn and Athol Fugard.
• Over 1,000 leading actors from Hollywood and Broadway: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Martin Sheen, Kathleen Turner, Anne Heche, Jon Hamm, Mark Ruffalo, Paul Giamatti, Helen Hunt, Annette Bening, Richard Dreyfuss, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ed Asner, Stacy Keach, Kelsey Grammer, Calista Flockhart, Laurence Fishburne, Julie Harris, Jimmy Smits, Shirley Knight, Hillary Swank.
• Includes 25 Pulitzer Prize winners and nominees and 45 Tony award winners and nominees, alongside 12 Common Core text exemplars, several of which are available exclusively on CD, such as Death of a Salesman, A Raisin in the Sun and Master Harold and the Boys.