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And The Sun Stood Still
By: Dava Sobel
"Enlightening and educational" —AudioFile Magazine
This smart play brings to life Nicolaus Copernicus, the visionary who dared place the Sun at the center of the universe. In his final years, torn by doubt and threatened with censure, he races to complete the work that would forever change our view of the cosmos.
Includes a conversation with the playwright, Dava Sobel.
Arcadia
By: Tom Stoppard
🎧 WINNER OF AUDIOFILE EARPHONES AWARD (2009)
"The dialogue sparkles, and more lurks under the text than on its surface" —AudioFile Magazine
Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia is a dazzling collision of past and present, where love, science, and fate entwine. Set in an English country house across two centuries, it reveals how the search for knowledge and meaning connects lives separated by time.
Includes an interview with Steven Strogatz, Professor at the Cornell University School of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics.
Behind the Sheet
"Told from the women's points of view. Excellent" —AudioFile Magazine
In 1840s Alabama, a doctor’s pursuit of a cure for childbirth fistulas hides a shameful truth—he experiments on enslaved women without consent. As he nears discovery, the women fight to endure and reclaim dignity amid inhuman treatment.
Includes conversations with playwright Charly Evon Simpson and Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology.
Boy
By: Anna Ziegler
"An unforgettable emotional journey" —AudioFile Magazine
Anna Ziegler’s Boy probes identity and the mystery of self. After an accident, a doctor convinces parents to raise their son as a girl. Growing up as both Samantha and Adam, the child struggles to define a true self against extraordinary odds.
Breaking the Code
By: Hugh Whitemore
"Compelling theatre" —AudioFile Magazine
Brilliant mathematician Alan Turing cracked the German Enigma code, helping the Allies win WWII. Yet the nation he saved condemned him for his sexuality. Based on Andrew Hodges’ book, Alan Turing: The Enigma, his story reveals both triumph and tragedy.
Bump
By: Chiara Atik
"Vivacious...engaging...standout performances!" —AudioFile Magazine
Based on the true story of Jorge Odón, who invented a birthing device in his garage, Chiara Atik’s comedy explores the miracle of maternity. When Claudia becomes pregnant, her anxieties spur her father to create a tool that could make childbirth safer for her — and women everywhere.
Includes a conversation with playwright Chiara Atik and renowned Obstetrician/Gynecologist Dr. Judith Reichman.
Can You Hear Me?
"Antique Morse code and radio equipment gives a period ambiance to the production" —AudioFile Magazine
Before Guglielmo Marconi, telegraphic messages couldn’t travel without wires. Harnessing radio waves, he turned the impossible into reality. This story offers a close look at the Italian inventor and the obstacles he overcame to revolutionize communication.
Circumstances Affecting The Heat of the Sun's Rays
By: Amanda Quaid
"Another fine science-based Relativity Series production by L.A. Theatre Works" —AudioFile Magazine
In the 1850s, Eunice Newton Foote uncovered the greenhouse effect, showing how gases like carbon dioxide trap heat. But in a male-dominated field, her work was ignored, and her vital role in climate science went unrecognized for more than a century.
Completeness
By: Itamar Moses
"Fun rom-com with a great layer of complicated science" —Amazon Customer Review
When computer scientist Elliot offers to design software for molecular biologist Molly’s research, sparks fly. As code meets chemistry, they discover love might be the winning formula—if they can overcome fear and past heartbreak.
Includes a conversation with Dan Rockmore, the Chair of the Department of Mathematics and a Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College.
Continuity
By: Bess Wohl
"Brisk... light...amusing" —AudioFile Magazine
In the New Mexico desert, a sheet of ice glistens, a mad eco-terrorist plants a bomb to save humanity, and a desperate film crew scrambles for one last shot. Storytelling and science collide with both hilarious and devastating consequences.
Copenhagen
By: Michael Frayn
"Intellectually exciting, emotionally moving" —Amazon Customer Review
What if the Nazis had built the atomic bomb first? In Copenhagen, physicist Werner Heisenberg meets mentor Niels Bohr and Bohr’s wife, Margrethe, in Michael Frayn’s Tony Award–winning drama exploring science, loyalty, moral conflict, and fate.
Doctor Cerberus
"Magic...Doctor Cerberus jumps from stand-up comedy to drama to breaking the fourth wall" —AudioFile Magazine
Thirteen-year-old Franklin Robertson struggles through adolescence, alienated at home and school. Escaping into late-night TV horror films, he becomes convinced that only the eerie host Dr. Cerberus can redeem his life in this darkly funny coming-of-age tale.
The Doctor's Dilemma
🎧 WINNER OF AUDIOFILE EARPHONES AWARD (2000)
"Thrilling performance…a seamless comic ensemble" —AudioFile Magazine
Blowhards, know-it-alls, and quacks all fall under Shaw’s sharp satire of the medical profession. When a respected physician must choose between saving a bumbling friend or the feckless husband of the woman he loves, wit and morality collide.
Includes a conversation with Dr. Neil Wenger, Director of the Healthcare Ethics Center at UCLA.
Donny's Brain
By: Rona Munro
🎧 WINNER OF AUDIOFILE EARPHONES AWARD (2016)
"★ ★ ★ ★ ★ What a wonderful story concept and visualization of how sophisticated the brain is… Thoughts are feelings”
—Audible.com Customer Review
Acclaimed Scottish playwright Rona Munro tells the story of a man who survives a car crash with brain damage, only to see the world as if it were three years earlier—when his life, relationships, and identity were dramatically different.
Includes a conversation with Dr. David Hovda, Director of the UCLA Brain Injury Research Center.
An Enemy of the People
By: Henrik Ibsen
"Ibsen's themes remain relevant, almost prescient, nearly a century and a half after he wrote this play" —AudioFile Magazine
When a small town relies on tourists flocking to its baths, will a report of dangerously polluted waters be enough to shut them down? Henrik Ibsen weighs the cost of public health versus a town’s livelihood in An Enemy of the People.
Includes a conversation with Joel K. Bourne, Jr., former senior environment editor for National Geographic.
End Days
"A brilliant and talented cast" —Amazon Customer Review
After 9/11, a suburban family faces a spiritual crisis. Sylvia Stein embraces Christianity and prepares for the Rapture, while her skeptical daughter Rachel discovers the world holds deeper mysteries than she ever imagined.
This audio includes an interview with Robert John Russell, Founder and director of Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.
The Explorers Club
By: Nell Benjamin
"Amusing fiction, and yet highly likely, depiction of the world of scientific exploration in the 1800s" —AudioFile Magazine
In London in 1879, the hapless Explorers Club faces its gravest threat—the admission of a woman into their all-male ranks. Yet intrepid Phyllida Spotte-Hume proves the least of their worries in this uproarious farce featuring members of the original Broadway cast.
Includes a conversation with essayist, novelist, and cultural critic Eileen Pollack.
Extinction
By: Hannie Rayson
🎧 WINNER OF AUDIOFILE EARPHONES AWARD (2021)
"A portrait of human nature — and nature itself" —Ed Rampell, Earth Island Journal
In Australia, a zoologist secures funding to save an endangered species—from the same company that imperils it. Her deal with the devil could rescue the animals or destroy her life’s work in a gripping tale of science, sacrifice, and survival.
Includes an interview with playwright Hannie Rayson and director Martin Jarvis.
Fake
By: Eric Simonson
🎧 WINNER OF AUDIOFILE EARPHONES AWARD (2011)
"Entertaining" —AudioFile Magazine
Journalists and scientists race to expose the Piltdown Man, history’s most famous archaeological hoax. Shifting between 1914 and 1953, every figure is a suspect—including Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—in this sharp exploration of truth, fraud, and discovery.
Includes an interview with Russell H. Tuttle, Professor of Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago.
The Fever Syndrome
By: Alexis Zegerman
"Exceptional cast" —AudioFile Magazine
Professor Richard Myers, in his 70s and battling advanced Parkinson’s, is set to receive a lifetime achievement award for his IVF breakthroughs. But at the family reunion that follows, old grudges resurface and a new family health crisis tests them all.
Incudes a conversation with playwright Alexis Zegerman.
Franklinland
By: Lloyd Suh
🎧 WINNER OF AUDIOFILE EARPHONES AWARD (2022)
"A marvelously performed entertaining romp through history" —AudioFile Magazine
In this comic reimagining of the American Revolution, brilliant but domineering Ben Franklin clashes with his son William. As Ben sparks a new republic, King George III names William Royal Governor of New Jersey—igniting a rift that turns personal into political.
Includes a conversation with playwright Lloyd Suh.
Golden Shield
🎧 WINNER OF AUDIOFILE EARPHONES AWARD (2025)
"Smart, cutting-edge listening" —AudioFile Magazine
American lawyer Julie Chen takes on a class-action suit against a tech giant and China’s internet firewall, the Golden Shield. With her sister Eva as translator, the battle forces them to confront legal compromises—and their own fraught family history.
The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial
By: Peter Goodchild
🎧 WINNER OF AUDIOFILE EARPHONES AWARD (2006)
"Ed Asner brings out William Jennings Bryan’s passionate belief in the Bible" —AudioFile Magazine
The 1925 Scopes Trial over teaching evolution in public schools reaffirmed the fight for intellectual freedom in the Bill of Rights. Using actual transcripts, this drama recreates the Tennessee case that ignited Church-and-State battles still raging today.
Headstrong
By: Patrick Link
"Ernie Hudson shines as the volatile, opinionated father of a woman whose football-playing husband has recently died"
—AudioFile Magazine
Amid rising concern over brain trauma in athletes, Patrick Link’s story follows a retired NFL linebacker grappling with a family tragedy and the devastating toll of his violent sport. A searing look at sacrifice, identity, and the price of glory.
Includes a conversation with Dr. Robert Cantu, Senior Advisor to the NFL Head, Neck, and Spine Committee.
An Immaculate Misconception
By: Carl Djerassi
Love, science, and betrayal under the microscope.
Amid a groundbreaking fertility experiment, Dr. Melanie Laidlaw is torn between collaborator Felix Frankenthaler and lover Menachem Dvir. Passions ignite and rivalries intensify in Carl Djerassi’s darkly comic ménage-à-trois of science, sex, and ambition.
Intelligence-Slave
By: Kenneth Lin
"Taut and suspenseful" —AudioFile Magazine
In this true story, Curt Herzstark, an Austrian industrialist imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, is sent to work in an underground salt mine. In captivity, he pursues his experiments—leading to the invention that would become the hand-held calculator.
Lenin's Embalmers
By: Vern Thiessen
"★★★★★" —Scribd Customer Review
After Lenin’s death, Stalin commands two Jewish scientists to preserve the body for eternity. Success brings reward but failure means the gulag—or worse. Based on real events, Vern Thiessen’s dark comedy lays bare the absurdities of Soviet life under Stalin.
Life on Paper
By: Kenneth Lin
"Sarah Drew and Seamus Dever create a nice Hepburn/Tracy-like chemistry in their verbal sparring..." —AudioFile Magazine
When one of the world’s richest men dies in a plane crash, math genius Mitch Bloom is sent to minimize the insurance payout. But he meets his match in Ida Watkins, a small-town actuary who forces him to confront what a human life is truly worth.
Includes an interview with playwright Kenneth Lin.
The Lost World
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Adapted by: John de Lancie, Nat Segaloff
"Wonderful... just right for the entire family" —AudioFile Magazine
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s adventure follows a daring expedition into the Amazon jungle—straight into the realm of dinosaurs and cavemen. Long before Jurassic Park or Indiana Jones, there was The Lost World, a timeless tale of science and discovery.
Includes a piece about the Dinosaur Institute at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
Lucy
By: Damien Atkins
"Surprising and riveting" —AudioFile Magazine
In this thought-provoking play, thirteen-year-old Lucy, who has autism, moves in with her estranged, misanthropic mother after a lifetime with her father. Together they struggle to navigate the challenges of building trust, family, and connection.
Includes a conversation with Dr. Daniel Geschwind of UCLA, a leading researcher in the field of genetics and autism.
Moving Bodies
By: Arthur Giron
"A compelling miniseries for the ear that also makes science exciting" —AudioFile Magazine
A chronicle capturing the brilliant and colorful life of Nobel Prize–winning scientist Richard Feynman. From shaping the atomic bomb to investigating the Challenger disaster, he left an indelible mark on physics, mathematics, and the course of modern science.
Includes an interview with Dr. Brian Greene, Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University.
Nan and the Lower Body
By: Jessica Dickey
"Wonderfully inquisitive science-based theater!" —Audiofile Magazine
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.
The Other Place
By: Sharr White
"An emotionally moving exploration of the power and fragility of memories" —Publishers Weekly
Juliana Smithton, a successful neurologist, finds her life unraveling. As fact blurs with fiction and past collides with present, a gripping mystery emerges—piece by piece—until the elusive truth about Juliana rises to the surface.
Includes an interview with Dr. Mario Mendez of the Early Onset Dementia and Neurobehavior Program at UCLA.
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Paradise
🎧 WINNER OF AUDIOFILE EARPHONES AWARD (2021)
"Compelling contemporary theater... a standout!" —AudioFile Magazine
Yasmeen, a Yemeni-American high school senior with big dreams, turns to her science teacher, Dr. Guy Royston, for a crucial favor. The request sets off a chain of events that challenges both of their deepest beliefs about science, faith, and the nature of love.
Includes a conversation with playwright Laura Maria Censabella.
Photograph 51
By: Anna Ziegler
"Thrilling, suspenseful, and engaging" —Goodreads Customer Review
In the 1950s race to decode DNA, Rosalind Franklin’s brilliance with X-ray diffraction revealed the double helix. Yet while Watson and Crick won acclaim, it was Franklin’s work that first exposed what would be hailed as "the secret of life.”
Includes interviews with biographer Brenda Maddox and Dr. Pamela Björkman, professor of Biology at CalTech.
The Physicists
"Physics, psychology, religion and politics come together beautifully" —Audible Customer Review
Johann Mobius, the world’s greatest physicist, is confined to an asylum with two men who believe they are Einstein and Newton. Haunted by visions of King Solomon, he faces a chilling choice in a darkly comic satire that questions the price of sanity and who the truly mad are.
Includes an interview with Richard Rhodes, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
Please Continue
By: Frank Basloe
"Realistic, chilling, and thought provoking" —AudioFile magazine
Based on the true story of social psychologist Stanley Milgram, Please Continue revisits the infamous 1960s Yale obedience experiments. Believing they delivered shocks, participants revealed chilling truths about compliance, power, and authoritarianism.
Includes an interview with Mary Helen Immordino-Yang of the Neuroscience Graduate Program Faculty at USC.
Proof
By: David Auburn
🎧 WINNER OF AUDIOFILE EARPHONES AWARD (2004)
"The emotional stakes are high and are played to the hilt" —AudioFile Magazine
An enigmatic young woman, a manipulative sister, their brilliant father, and an unexpected suitor collide around a mysterious mathematical proof. This dynamic, surprising story won both the Tony® Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Includes interviews with neuropsychologist Dr. Carrie Bearden of UCLA and Steven Strogatz, Professor at Cornell University’s School of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics.
The Real Doctor Strangelove
By: Peter Goodchild
"Science, drama, and history... a great story of fear and betrayal" —Amazon Customer Review
The first H-bomb detonates, and its “proud father” Edward Teller collides with Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the atomic bomb team turned pacifist. As the government moves to silence Oppenheimer, Teller becomes their star witness in the birth of Armageddon.
Includes an interview with Richard Rhodes, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
Relativity
By: Cassandra Medley
One family. One theory. A reckoning.
At the heart of this play is the provocative claim that higher melanin levels make people of color superior. Kalima, a young molecular scientist, struggles to reject her late father’s flawed research, while her mother Claire clings to his legacy.
Includes an interview with Dr. Stanley Nelson, Professor and Vice Chair of Human Genetics at UCLA.
The Ruby Sunrise
By: Rinne Groff
"Fantastic story... full of heart and character" —Amazon Customer Review
Blending past and present, The Ruby Sunrise begins with a 1920s tomboy racing to invent “television.” Twenty-five years later, her daughter fights to bring her mother’s story to life during TV’s Golden Age—but will it get the truth it deserves?
Includes a piece on TV pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth, with historian Karen Herman and documentarian Phil Savaneck.
Searching for Galileo's Daughter
By: Jessica Dickey
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The story of daughter’s love, a father’s truth, and a woman’s modern awakening.
Galileo’s eldest daughter entered a Tuscan convent as a teen, yet remained scientifically curious and close to her father—even as the Church condemned him. Her surviving letters spark a time-shifting journey through Florence, past and present.
Includes a conversation with playwright Jessica Dickey.
Secret Order
By: Bob Clyman
"A young scientist is pressured into dishonesty by high expectations and the lure of big rewards." —AudioFile Magazine
In the high-stakes world of cancer research, Dr. William Shumway makes a stunning breakthrough. Unsure if it’s the long-sought cure, he faces pressure from a powerful mentor, sparking a suspenseful clash of science, ethics, and ambition.
Includes an interview with Dr. Harvey Herschman, Director for Basic Research at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Spill
"A cautionary tale" —AudioFile Magazine
In 2010, British Petroleum ordered faster drilling on its massive Deepwater Horizon rig, ignoring safety warnings. On April 20, the rig exploded, killing eleven men and devastating thousands along the Gulf Coast whose lives were forever changed.
Includes a conversation with Jim Morris, Executive Editor at The Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C.
Tooth and Claw
In the struggle between man and nature, who endures?
In an ecosystem as fragile as our planet, is life just survival of the fittest? Inspired by Lonesome George—the last giant tortoise of his kind—Michael Hollinger’s play explores how efforts to save a species imperiled the livelihoods of Galápagos fishermen.
Includes an interview with Carol Ann Bassett, the author of Galápagos at the Crossroads: Pirates, Biologists, Tourists, and Creationists Battle for Darwin’s Cradle of Evolution.
War of the Worlds
By: H.G. Wells
"Still sends 'waves of fear' through listeners" —AudioFile Magazine
Actors from the Star Trek universe recreate the classic 1938 radio thriller that sparked nationwide panic with its “eyewitness” report of a Martian invasion. Originally broadcast by Orson Welles, War of the Worlds adapts H.G. Wells’ timeless novel of alien terror.
Includes a post-show audience talkback with actor Leonard Nimoy.
What You Are Now
By: Sam Chanse
🎧 WINNER OF AUDIOFILE EARPHONES AWARD (2023)
"Fine theater" —AudioFile Magazine
Are we bound by our memories—or can we change them? Pia, a neuroscientist, studies how to reshape traumatic experiences. But when her distant mother, a survivor of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, confronts the past, the question remains: are some things too terrible to forget?
Includes a conversation with Dr. Daniela Schiller, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at Mount Sinai in New York City.
