The Substance of Fire

Written by Jon Robin Baitz

Narrated by Shirley Knight and Full Cast

Jon Robin Baitz’s commanding drama about a New York publisher and Holocaust survivor whose decision to publish obscure political tracts threatens the future of both the publisher’s company and his family.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Gretchen Cleevely, Mitchell Hebert, Shirley Knight, Ron Rifkin and Stephen F. Schmidt.

• Language: English
• Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works
• Release date: Jul 23, 2007
• ISBN: 9781580815192

Jon Robin Baitz

Jon Robin Baitz was born in Los Angeles in 1961, and grew up there, in Rio de Janeiro, and in South Africa. His plays have been extensively produced on and off Broadway and throughout the world. He is the author of The Film Society, The Substance of Fire, Three Hotels, A Fair Country, The Paris Letter, and Other Desert Cities. He created the ABC TV show Brothers & Sisters, which ran for five seasons from 2007 to 2012, and the miniseries The Slap. He is a Tony nominee for the Broadway production of Other Desert Cities, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Guggenheim fellow, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters award winner.