Top Arts & Entertainment Audiobooks

In How the Medici Shaped the Renaissance, you’ll study the remarkable trajectory of the Medici from the late 14th century to 1737, when the Medici dynasty ended....

Inarguably one of the greatest dramas in the history of the American theater” (Chicago Tribune), Eugene O'Neill’s LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT receives a vibrant and timely update….

Jazz is a uniquely American art form, with each generation of musicians applying new levels of creativity that take the music in unexpected directions that defy definition....

In the six lectures of A Psychologist Goes to the Movies, taught by Dr. Swan, you’ll see what films can tell us about the human mind, from the experience of amnesia to the ethics of psychological research and so much more.

She's back, and she's married! Jo's brilliantly cynical reflections on marriage, teenagers, tacky journalists, George W. Bush have all been left IN....

The My Fair Lady story gets a thoroughly modern, thoroughly invigorating update in this unsparing (and hilarious) look at America’s capitalist tech culture. Eli is a tough young woman who makes paper flowers on Venice Beach, where she lives in a homeless tent camp....

Popular author of Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids turns his witty pen to the classic knock-knock joke, providing hours of entertainment for young and old...

The Jimi Hendrix Experience gives the whole story of his legendary life and career, the virtuosity and madness, the genius and the rush to self-destruction....

In the six lectures of The Story of Grunge, you’ll explore the rise and evolution of the genre, tracing it from Seattle subculture to MTV and the Billboard charts, all the way to its decline and evolution into new forms.

All About “All About Eve” is not only full of rich detail about the movie, the director, and the stars, but also about the audience who loved it when it came out and adore it to this day....

Lydia (Aja Naomi King) and Henry (Jason Butler Harner)’s dinner guests (Madeline Brewer and William Jackson Harper) are about to arrive when Henry’s spontaneous marriage proposal threatens to burn the evening to a crisp....

Jews have a centuries-old tradition of telling jokes, from the ghettos of Europe to Hollywood and the Catskills. Jewish jokes are entertainment, the oral history of a culture, insightful social criticism, and survival tactic rolled into one. In 2008, Hollywood director and producer Sam Hoffman...

Ms. Sun is a charming, cash-strapped teaching artist put in charge of a rambunctious group of 10th graders at a public school in the Bronx. While directing her students in a play, Ms. Sun must lift them up while everything around them is falling apart....

For most of us the French Revolution has been reduced to jokes about Marie Antoinette, guillotines, and The Scarlet Pimpernel. But for Mark Steel the French Revolution was one of the most inspirational moments in human history....

Probably the most eccentric man in Britain, Radio 4's John Shuttleworth will reduce you to tears of laughter....

ECW was one extreme contradiction piled on top of another....

Your guide to making it big in the business of evil....

Plutarchs's (46-120 A.D.) epic chronicle of the lives of great Grecians and Romans....

Samantha Bee wants to talk about menopause. Okay, she actually doesn’t want to, but she must. Half of the world’s population will spend one third of their lives in it, yet it’s been completely shrouded in secrecy—until now.

When John Huston died at 81 on August 28, 1987, America lost a towering figure in movie history....