The Queen of Fourteenth Street

Barrie Kreinik has long been one of my favorite audiobook narrators so when I saw that the narrator and playwright wrote her own audio original produced in the style of a 1930s radio drama, it's fair to say I pounced. This is Kreinik's adapted-for-audio version of a stage play she wrote, and much like the theater, it was performed and recorded by the entire cast in a single sitting. Her subject is the real-life early twentieth century theater icon Eva Le Gallienne, who founded NYC's innovative Civic Repertory Theatre in 1926 and successfully steered it through the Depression era. Narrated by a full cast including Barrie Kreinik and Orlagh Cassidy, with original audio design for a thoroughly immersive experience.