The Los Angeles Times on John Lithgow’s Audible Original Performance

The Los Angeles Times on July 9 wrote about Audible Theater, focusing on John Lithgow’s one-man performance of Stories by Heart, an Audible Original. Audible Theater engages writers and actors with new storytelling ideas, who deliver words and performances for the intimate storytelling experience of Audible.

The Times piece quotes Don as saying: “In a matter of seconds, more people can be listening to an Audible original than can pack a 1,000-seat theater eight times per week for half a century.”

The reach of Lithgow’s critically acclaimed show had been limited to the 740 seats of the American Airlines Theatre. The recent Audible release, however, instantaneously expanded the potential audience into the millions. …

As part of what Audible calls a commitment to expanding the reach, scope and impact of theater, the company has claimed the Minetta Lane Theatre in New York’s Greenwich Village as its creative home for live performances. It has also been commissioning established and emerging playwrights to write one- and two-person shows to be performed as Audible Originals.

Participants in Audible’s theater lineup say Minetta Lane is the linchpin in a program that aims to forge a wholly modern frontier for theater, pairing an age-old art form with technology in a way that not only democratizes access but also encourages artists to approach theater in new ways.