Product Description: Winner of the 2008 Tony Award® for Best Play, Tracy Letts' darkly comic epic offers a painfully funny look at a family struggling in the desolate heart of America. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast recording, featuring members of the original Steppenwolf Theatre and Broadway productions: Tara Lynne Barr as Jean Fordham Shannon Cochran as Barbara Fordham Rosemarie DeWitt as Ivy Weston Deanna Dunagan as Violet Weston (Tony Award®, Best Leading Actress) Kimberly Guerrero as Johnna Monevata Francis Guinan as Charlie Aiken Scott Jaeck as Sheriff Deon Gilbeau Ron Livingston as Little Charles Robert Maffia as Steve Heidebrecht Mariann Mayberry as Karen Weston Robert Pine as Beverly Weston Rondi Reed as Mattie Fae Aiken (Tony Award®, Best Featured Actress) David Warshofsky as Bill Fordham Directed by Bart DeLorenzo...read more

A luxury sedan, a church pew, a cafeteria table, a favorite TV show, and visits to a nursing home form the comfortable cycles of the dull daily life of middle-aged insurance salesman Ken Carpenter. Then one night, he awakens to find that he no longer believes in God. To the surprise of his very understanding (to a point) wife and his two grown daughters who think he has lost his mind, Ken decides to find himself and his faith by flying to London, where he was stationed while in the Air Force. He navigates through the new and somewhat dangerous realm of British counter-culture and ultimately finds his way back home. Tracy Letts's moving, funny, and spiritually complex play dares to ask the big questions, and by doing so, reveals the hidden yearning and emotion that spur the eccentric behavior of seemingly ordinary people.

Product Description: Full Length, Black ComedyCharacters: 3 male, 2 female Interior SetThis exciting first play by the author of August: Osage County premiered at Chicago's Steppenwolf before going on to acclaimed productions in London and New York. Hired by the dissolute Smith family to murder the matriarch for insurance money, "Killer Joe" takes the daughter to bed as a retainer against his final payoff which sets in motion a bloody aftermath as the "hit man" meets his match...read more