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Get "behind the scenes" when L.A. Theatre Works records "Broadway Bound", winner of the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play, for radio broadcast on LATW's nationally syndicated radio theater series airing weekly on public and XM satellite radio. Josh Radnor of CBS-TV's How I Met Your Mother and Dan Castellaneta, best know as the voice of Homer Simpson, star in five performances that will be recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center July 9-13.
"Broadway Bound" is the final installment of Neil Simon's acclaimed autobiographical "Eugene Trilogy" (preceded by Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues). Upon returning ...Read More
Get "behind the scenes" when L.A. Theatre Works records "Broadway Bound", winner of the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play, for radio broadcast on LATW's nationally syndicated radio theater series airing weekly on public and XM satellite radio. Josh Radnor of CBS-TV's How I Met Your Mother and Dan Castellaneta, best know as the voice of Homer Simpson, star in five performances that will be recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center July 9-13.
"Broadway Bound" is the final installment of Neil Simon's acclaimed autobiographical "Eugene Trilogy" (preceded by Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues). Upon returning home from World War II, Eugene Morris Jerome and his brother Stanley pair up to break into the world of professional comedy writing. Inspiration strikes when they aim their sights on their dysfunctional family - and then the network broadcasts it nationwide!
For three decades, L.A. Theatre Works has been the leading radio theater company in the United States, committed to using innovative technologies to preserve and promote significant works of dramatic literature and bringing live theater into the homes of millions. LATW's radio theater series, The Play's The Thing, airs weekly on 89.3 FM KPCC in Southern California; 89.7 WGBH in Boston; 91.5 FM WBEZ in Chicago; 94.9 KUOW in Seattle; 93.5 FM KRTS "Marfa Public Radio" in Texas; 90.5 FM KUT in Austin;88.9 FM KUNM in Albuquerque; 94.1 KPFA in Northern California; 91.1 FM KRCB in Sonoma County; 89.1 KUOR in Redlands; as well as on many other public radio stations nationwide and XM Satellite Radio. Selected programs from LATW are also heard internationally over BBC World Service, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Telefis Eirann (Ireland), Radio Hong Kong, and Radio New Zealand. The L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collection is available in bookstores, libraries, through their catalog, digitally on itunes, overdrive.com, audible.com, and on the L.A. Theatre Works website at www.latw.org.
Performances of Broadway Bound take place on Wednesday, July 9 at 8 pm; Thursday, July 10, at 8 pm; Friday, July 11 at 8 pm; Saturday, July 12 at 3 pm; and Sunday, July 13 at 4 pm. Tickets range from $20.00 to $47.00. The Skirball Cultural Center is located at 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd, off the San Diego (405) Freeway in the Santa Monica Mountains (exit Skirball Center Drive). For tickets and information, call the L.A. Theatre Works box office at (310) 827-0889 or go to www.latw.org.
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