LATW’s Setting the Stage for Learning brings free audio recordings of important stage plays to middle and high schools around the world, harnessing the power of professional theatre to deepen students’ understanding of complex literature and subject content.
Once you enroll we will send you a list of available titles and instructions on how to download the MP3 files, tips on how to use audio plays in your curriculum, and the Spill study guide.
Please contact us with any questions at audiosales@latw.org with any questions or access issues.
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New Titles
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.
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.
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.
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.
Searching for Galileo's Daughter
By: Jessica Dickey
🔆 NEW RELEASE!
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.
