Shannon Cochran
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A whirlwind courtship. A storybook wedding. A kiss for the bride. And suddenly everything changes. When Peter and Rita's brand-new marriage is strained by a magical twist of fate, true love will never mean quite the same thing again. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recordings, starring: Caroline Aaron as Mrs. Boyle. Shannon Cochran as Leah. Tate Donovan as Peter. Charles Durning as Old Man. Arabella Field as Rita. Chuma Hunter-Gault as the Waiter...
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In this naturalistic drama, playwright Timothy Mason chronicles the lives of a rural Wisconsin family over the course of a decade. The play's patriarch remains an unseen yet influential presence, and Mason weaves themes of greed, violence, love, and politics into the character-driven plot.
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Nan takes a prestigious research position working for Dr. George Papanicolaou, the inventor of the Pap smear. The doctor worries Nan's new husband might distract from their important work, but Nan has a secret that could upend everyone's plans for her. Includes an interview with playwright Jessica Dickey.
This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the...
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Mary Lennox leaves India to live with her cold uncle in his dreary mansion in England. When Mary hears of a secret garden kept locked for ten years, she is determined to find it and tend it back to life. With the help of her uncle's sickly son and a boy who knows all about nature, Mary secretly transforms the garden - and all of their lives.
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As Jews tried to escape Nazi Germany in the 1930s, they faced unthinkable roadblocks in obtaining exit visas. And while they were denied entry in one country after another, a bureaucratic oddity enabled some of them to flee to an unlikely destination: Shanghai, China.
In this LATW original commission, playwright Kate McAll used the survivors' own words to create a narrative of people starting their lives over in a completely new land.
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6) Pygmalion
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An idealistic professor transforms an unsophisticated Cockney girl into a refined young lady in this classic drama set in turn-of-the-century London.