Dramatic Readings
Strange Pages from Family Papers
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Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
“Among other qualities which have been supposed to belong to a dead man’s hand, are its medicinal virtues, in connection with which may be m…
Highacres (Dramatic Reading)
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Jane D. Abbott
The story of a young mountain girl and her first year of city living and going to a high school. She knows nothing of town life, but she had…
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (Dramatic Reading)
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Henry Fielding
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, or simply Shamela, as it is more commonly known, is a satirical novel written by Henry Fiel…
Excuse Me! (Dramatic Reading)
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Rupert Hughes
What happens when a mix of lovers get stuck together on a coast-to-coast train? Mainly hilarity. There is every kind of couple imaginable. O…
The Curse of Capistrano (Dramatic Reading)
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Johnston McCulley and Johnston Mcculley
The Curse of Capistrano is the first work to feature the fictional character Zorro (the Spanish word for "fox"). The story was lat…
Michael Strogoff (Dramatic Reading)
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Jules Verne
At a fete in the New Palace, the court seems to be in perfect order. Only two people know the truth: the telegraph wire beyond Tomsk, connec…
Julius Caesar (version 2)
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William Shakespeare
When Julius Caesar returns to Rome from conquering the Gauls, Cassius and his friends are worried that he will try to seize power and make h…
The Heart's Kingdom (version 2 dramatic reading)
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Maria Thompson Daviess
Charlotte Powers is a woman who loves life, and is set to marry Nickols just as soon as she can figure herself out. However, coming home and…
What Katy Did (Dramatic Reading)
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Susan Coolidge
Katy Carr always gets in trouble for everything. When her mother died, she told Katy to be a mother to the little ones. But it seems like Ka…
Four Noncanonical Sherlock Holmes Short Stories
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Although the Sherlock Holmes canon traditionally consists of four novels and 56 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, there are many …
Catherine Howard (Dramatic Reading)
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Alexandre Dumas
Subtitled "The Throne, The Tomb, and The Scaffold - An Historical Play in 3 Acts From the Celebrated Play of that Name by Alexandre Dum…
The String of Pearls (dramatic reading)
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Unknown
Todd is a barber who murders his customers and turns their remains into meat pies, sold at the pie shop of his partner in crime: Mrs. Lovett…
Barks and Purrs (Dramatic Reading)
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Colette
Barks and Purrs is a collection of seven episodes in the lives of Toby-Dog, a French Bulldog, and Kiki-the-Demure, a Maltese cat, living in …
Sir Thomas More
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Anthony Munday
Sir Thomas More is a collaborative Elizabethan play by Anthony Munday and others depicting the life and death of Thomas More. It survives on…
New Adventures of Alice (version 2 Dramatic Reading)
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John Rae
After reading and re-reading the book many time as a boy and wishing that Lewis Carroll would have written another Alice In Wonderland Book,…
Twelfth Night (version 3)
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William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night, or What You Wil is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–02 as a Twelfth Night's enterta…
The Phoenix and the Carpet (version 3 Dramatic Reading)
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E. Nesbit and Honoré de Balzac
Cyril, Robert, Anthea and Jane need a new carpet for the nursery, but it turns out to be a magic carpet containing a phoenix egg! They disco…
The Age of Innocence (Dramatic Reading)
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Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of a woman plagued by scandal whose presenc…
Jessica's First Prayer and Jessica's Mother (Dramatic reading)
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Hesba Stretton
Jessica is a little girl who used to be an actress till she grew too big. Now she lives on the streets, mostly starving until she meets Mr. …
Little Men (Version 4 Dramatic Reading)
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Louisa May Alcott
Little Men is the sequel to Louisa May Alcott's bestselling book Little Women. It opens as Jo March and her husband Fritz Bhaer begin a scho…