Showing results for "jon robin baitz"
Showing 1 - 11 of 11 Results
Adult content is visible.
Yes/Maybe/Never
A Novel
2027
EN
A brilliant, AI-skeptical, dystopian debut novel by the award-winning playwright Jon Robin Baitz.In the near future, America has not so much collapsed as frayed. Cities empty out by degrees. Systems falter, and people learn to live with what they once would have found intolerable.At the center of Yes/Maybe/Never is Timmy, a gifted, unstable young man living alone in a cabin near the Canadian border, surrounded by antique toy robots, homemade device...
Available Jan 12, 2027
Other Desert Cities
A Play
2011
EN
A political family confronts its dark history in this Pulitzer Prize-finalist play "with gleaming dialogue [and] tantalizing hints of a dangerous mystery" (Ben Brantley, The New York Times).Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway PlayBrooke Wyeth hasn't been home to visit her parents in years. But now she's back in Palm Springs for Christmas, and she has a startling announcement to make. Brooke is ...
Three Hotels
Plays and Monologues
2015
EN
One of the Ten Best Plays of the Year! No longer merely promising, Jon Robin Baitz is now a major playwright.’” Time Magazine"Jon Robin Baitz is the American theatre's most fascinating playwright of conscience. Three Hotels packs an emotional punch that lingers."--Michael Kuchwara, Associated PressDazzling audiences with the linguistic artistry, keen insights and comprehensive vision of Three Hotels, Jon Robin Baitz enhances his reput...
2015
EN
"Marked by the aching articulation, scathing wit and deep convictions of a mature artist with a complete vision."--Frank Rich, The New York Times"If Arthur Miller had married Noel Coward, their son would have been Robbie Baitz." --André Bishop, from the PrefaceJon Rubin Baitz startled the theatrical world with the 1985 debut of The Film Society. A frank examination of the controlling forces behind a nearly bankrupt private school for boys in South Africa, ...
2015
EN
One of the most gratifying, even inspirational, things about the American theatre today is the very existence of Jon Robin Baitz. With A Fair Country his writing continues to push our theatre out of the parlor and into the political.” Linda Winer, NewsdayBaitz is occupying theatrical territory that once was the turf of Arthur Miller and Lillian Hellman, though he writes in his own idiosyncratic voice He has a gift for familial confrontations that are vicious, funny, b...
Yes/Maybe/Never
A Novel
- Narrated by
- Seth Numrich
Unabridged
8 hours 45 min
2027
EN
A brilliant, AI-skeptical, dystopian debut novel by the award-winning playwright Jon Robin Baitz.In the near future, America has not so much collapsed as frayed. Cities empty out by degrees. Systems falter, and people learn to live with what they once would have found intolerable.At the center of Yes/Maybe/Never is Timmy, a gifted, unstable young man living alone in a cabin near the Canadian border, surrounded by antique toy robots, homemade device...
Available Jan 12, 2027
- Narrated by
- Christine LahtiRon Rifkin
Unabridged
1 hour
2001
EN
Masterfully written by one of America’s most lauded playwrights, this deeply human story unfolds in three hotel rooms in Morocco, the Virgin Islands and Oaxaca, Mexico, as a married couple reflect on their lives as players in the game of international business. A devastating tour-de-force of humor, tragedy, and penetrating insight from one of America’s premier playwrights.An L.A. Theatre Works performance featuring Christine Lahti and Ron Rifkin.
- Narrated by
- Nathan LanePaul SandFull Cast
Unabridged
1 hour 46 min
2000
EN
Italian shoes, a house in the hills, a gift for stretching the truth, and a petulant assistant to pick the scallions out of his Szechuan noodles – Hollywood producer Davis Mizlansky has it all. But he’s about to lose it to the IRS unless he can pull off one more deal. A stellar cast performs this hilarious send-up of modern-day Hollywood.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Nathan Lane, Paul Sand, Grant Shaud, Rob Morrow, Julie Kavner, Richard Masur, Harry Shearer,...
- Narrated by
- Judith IveyDavid DukesFull Cast
Unabridged
1 hour 34 min
2001
EN
A well-meaning American diplomat in South Africa tries to pacify his ferociously combative wife and anti-apartheid activist son by being reassigned to The Hague. But peace is hard to come by and, at an elegant New Year's Eve party, a harrowing betrayal is revealed. Judith Ivey recreates her acclaimed performance from the Lincoln Center production in this masterful drama from the author of The Substance of Fire.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring starring Judith Iv...
Unabridged
1 hour 44 min
2008
EN
The latest work from one of America’s most important young playwrights and creator of the current hit TV series, “Brothers and Sisters”. Financial powerhouse Sandy Sonnenberg finds his personal and professional life threatened by unraveling secrets from his past. A tragic game of financial and moral betrayal plays out over four decades, with an exacting price - family, friends, love and marriage. Starring members of the original Off-Broadway production.An L.A. Theatre Works full-ca...
- Narrated by
- Shirley KnightFull Cast
Unabridged
1 hour 28 min
2007
EN
Jon Robin Baitz’s commanding drama about a New York publisher and Holocaust survivor whose decision to publish obscure political tracts threatens the future of both the publisher’s company and his family.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Gretchen Cleevely, Mitchell Hebert, Shirley Knight, Ron Rifkin and Stephen F. Schmidt.
People who read these also enjoyed
The Girl on the Train
The multi-million-copy global phenomenon
2015
EN
THE RUNAWAY GLOBAL BESTSELLER'Gripping, enthralling - a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read.' SJ Watson, bestselling author of BEFORE I GO TO SLEEPRachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. 'Jess and Jason', she calls them. Their life - as...











