Barbara Bain
1) Space: 1999
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Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1975.
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The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.
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Walter Matthau stars in the story of a climate scientist trying to balance romance and research. The piece is both serious and surreal as Matthau removes the “fourth wall” while addressing the show's recording engineer. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Barbara Bain, Zeljko Ivanek and Valerie Landsburg.
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Feast on this delectable collection of "whodunits" from some of the mystery world' s most diabolical chefs. Whet your appetite with Sara Paretsky's "Skin Deep," in which fan-favorite Chicago private investigator, V.I. "Vic" Warshawski, takes on a chi-chi salon after one of its clients turns up dead. For your next course, try Wendy Hornsby's award-winning "Nine Sons," a country schoolteacher's recollection of a gifted student whose farm...
6) Agnes of God
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L.A. Theatre Works
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In this contemporary murder mystery, set within the confines of a convent, Agnes is a devout, innocent young nun accused of infanticide. As a psychiatrist, herself a lapsed Catholic, and the Mother Superior struggle over Agnes' fate, the play plunges deeply into the mystery of faith and the consequence of truth. The broadcast includes an interview with Dr. Kevin Orlin Johnson, author of "Why Do Catholics Do That." An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance...
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A dark and funny tale of an ambitious young woman at a crucial turning point in her career and her relationship with her bi-polar mother. Louise (Julia Garcia Combs) is an insurance underwriter living in Los Angeles with her mother, May (Karen Black), who has recently been evicted from her Section 8 apartment after the building was condemned. Throw into the mix a budding romance between Louise and the local bartender, and we find ourselves in the...
9) American Gun
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Life seemed almost perfect for Martin Tillman until a shattering act of random violence took the life of his daughter Penny during a Christmas visit. Now Martin realizes that there is only one way he can move on from this tragedy: to solve the mystery of Penny's killing by tracking the trail of the gun that killed her.