Comedy
Hero and Leander
Two young people, the epitome of young masculine and feminine beauty, fall in love at first sight, but their union is forbidden by the tyran…
Porcelain and Pink
Porcelain and Pink is a witty one-act play by F. Scott Fitzgerald, originally featured in his 1922 collection Tales of the Jazz Age. Set in …
Mama Bloom's Brood
Mama Bloom's Brood is an early series from around 1934 that blends elements of soap opera with situation comedy. Each episode runs for fifte…
The Strange Gentleman
Before he became a novelist, Dickens wrote several successful plays. This one from 1836, his first, he called, “A Comic Burletta in Two Acts…
Laurel and Hardy
Enjoy a delightful collection of 11 episodes featuring the comedic duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. This compilation includes a mix of skit…
Lysistrata
Lysistrata read by a group of college students.First performed in classical Athens c. 411 B.C.E., Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata” is the original…
The Tempest
Few plays have been seen as a more fitting conclusion to a playwright's career than Shakespeare's The Tempest. Focusing on the aging sorcere…
The Gentle Grafter
If Jefferson "Parleyvoo" Pickens had appeared in print just a few years later, he might have been the "Gentle Grifter" i…
Gentle Julia
Penrod for girls in the form of Florence, the bratty younger cousin of luminous Julia Atwater, enlivens this romantic comedy set in Tarkingt…
La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas
La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas est une comédie-ballet de Molière (musique de Charpentier et ballets de Beauchamp), commandée…
The Merchant of Venice
Perhaps the most controversial of Shakespeare's comedies, The Merchant of Venice tells the tale of a man, Bassanio, who has a crazy plan to …
Duffy's Tavern
"Duffy's Tavern" was a wartime situation comedy that aired for a decade on several different radio networks, including CBS from 19…
The Aldrich Family
The Aldrich Family is one of the greatest and most timeless Old Time Radio sitcoms that never fails to make you laugh. The main characters, …
The School For Scandal
Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy was first performed in 1777 and focuses on the intrigues and scandals of the British upper classes. Lady …
The Genial Idiot
The Genial Idiot introduces readers to the endearing yet exasperating character of Mr. Idiot, a man whose self-assuredness often leads him i…
Twelfth Night
Shakespeare's great festive comedy, probably written and first performed around 1601, follows the adventures of twins Viola and Sebastian, w…
The Way of the World
The Way of the World is a play written by British playwright William Congreve. It premiered in 1700 in the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields i…
Lysistrata
Lysistrata has had enough. She is tired of the constant war that is ravaging Greece and has come up with a solution: Together with female fr…
As You Like It
Shakespeare's pastoral comedy was written and first performed around 1599, and presents some of his familiar motifs: a cross-dressing heroin…
Mail Call with Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx stars in this classic episode of Mail Call as heard on the Armed Forces Radio Network.