Publisher Description
John Barrymore was the black sheep of America’s most illustrious acting family. Celebrated for his charisma and matinee idol looks, he was for awhile America’s most popular actor. Famous for his stage roles in Richard III and Hamlet, he also made more than fifty films. But alcoholism soon dissipated his talents, and he became known more for his Falstaffian behavior and outrageous high jinx than for his art. In Barrymore, William Luce has adapted his acclaimed Broadway hit especially for audio in this stunning production.
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About William Luce
William Luce, Broadway playwright, has written numerous stage plays that have garnered multiple awards for the actors, the music, and the television productions that followed, as well as for the playwright himself, including two nominations for a Writers’ Guild Award for two CBS movies, The Last Days of Patton and The Woman He Loved. His Broadway and London success, The Belle of Amherst, spawned commissions for solo plays about Charlotte Brontë, Zelda Fitzgerald, Lillian Hellman, Isak Dinesen, and John Barrymore. He lives and writes on the Oregon coast.
About the Narrators
Jerry Robbins is an American actor and singer who has performed in more than one hundred stage productions, including an acclaimed portrayal of John Barrymore in William Luces’ play, Barrymore. He has also written and produced forty radio plays with his company, the Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air, winning the Parents Choice Award for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 2001 and an Audio Worlds Golden Headset Award for Little Big Horn in 1999.
The Colonial Radio
Players is a radio drama production company based out of Boston,
Massachusetts. Officially established in 1995 by Jerry Robbins and Mark Vander
Berg, they have won numerous awards, including Parents’ Choice Awards, Ogle
Award, Mark Time Award, and Audie Award finalist. They have collaborated with
such authors as Ray Bradbury, William Luce, and Walter Koenig.