Like the rest of the theater world, the Williamstown Theatre Festival has spent a year shut down. But that gave it the chance to put a season’s worth of adapted-for-audio productions online with Audible Originals, where you can reach them without a three-hour drive to northwestern Massachusetts.
As with any theater season, some plays are better than others, though all feature first-rate casts (some of them with big names), as well as top-notch sound effects and interesting post-show interviews with playwright, director or both. As a whole, it’s quite an achievement.
And the full seven-play season is included with an Audible Plus online membership, $7.95 a month.
Amazon Prime Video
Flight
This 2012 thriller centers on an airline pilot who miraculously lands his plane after a mid-flight emergency, only to later find out that who or what was at fault may not be as clear as it initially appeared.
Fences Tony Award-winner Denzel Washington stars as pilot Whip Whitaker.
The
Underground Railroad(May 14)
Based on Colson Whiteheadâs Pulitzer-winning novel, this limited series tracks Cora Randallâs fight for her own freedom in the Antebellum-era South. Thuso Mbedu stars as Cora, leading a cast that includes stage favorites Amber Gray and Lily Rabe.
Trumbo (May 19)
Set in the late 1940s, this film follows the real-life figure of Dalton Trumbo, a top Hollywood screenwriter that finds himself in the crosshairs of Senator Joseph McCarthy for having been an active member of the Communist Party of the USA.
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