Two L.A. Theatre Works Recordings Honored by AudioFile Magazine
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Journey’s End named ‘Best of 2024’ & The Secret Garden wins ‘Earphones Award’
As 2024 drew to a close, AudioFile, the bimonthly magazine dedicated to covering and reviewing audiobooks, named the L.A. Theatre Works recording of Journey’s End a “Best Audiobook 2024” in the multi voice category and bestowed an “Earphones Award” on LATW’s enchanting recording of The Secret Garden.
Journey’s End, the groundbreaking 1928 World War I drama by R.C. Sherriff, was adapted for audio by Martin Jarvis OBE who directed the all-British cast of distinguished actors. Set in 1918 near the end of the war, Journey’s End charts the overpowering tension and claustrophobia in the British trenches over the course of four days, as a group of officers await an expected German attack. Based on Sherriff’s personal experience, the play is considered to be one of the best examples in modern dramatic literature of the true horror and tragedy of war.
L.A. Theatre Works commissioned playwright Jeanne Sakata to create a new audio adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden. Mary Lennox is a solitary and contrary ten-year-old orphan who discovers friendship and her own inner spirit as she tends the magical secret garden of her uncle’s English manor. A cast of eight top-notch actors brings Burnett’s beloved classic to vivid life.
“The Gold Standard For Fine Audio Theater Recordings.”
L.A. Theatre Works, the world’s foremost producer of audio theater, stands apart in its approach to making great theater widely accessible and affordable, bringing recordings of plays into homes and classrooms of millions of theater lovers, teachers and students each year. The company’s catalog of nearly 600 recorded plays is the largest archive of its kind in the world. LATW’s syndicated audio theater series broadcasts weekly on public radio stations across the U.S. (locally, in Southern California, on KPFK 90.7 FM); can be downloaded wherever you get your podcasts; and can be streamed on demand at latw.org. AudioFile Magazine calls L.A. Theatre Works productions “the gold standard for fine audio theater recordings.”
*Special thanks to Lucy Pollak Public Relations.
