The Woman Who Laughed

Written by Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by Edward Asner, Lindsay Crouse, Ethan Glazer and 7 more

"Nell Ryder is a sardonic and urbane school teacher transplanted to small-town Michigan in Joyce Carol Oates' play. But when she gets into a dispute with an aggrieved parent, Nell finds herself accused of impropriety with one of her adolescent charges. A BBC co-production.An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:Edward Asner as TowersLindsay Crouse as MadgeEthan Glazer as Joey EatonHarold Gould as PittsKaitlin Hopkins as NellGary Kroeger as GilJarrett Lennon as BillyLana McKissack as DarleneMarian Mercer as Mrs. EatonTom Virtue as TuttleDirected by Gordon House. Recorded before a live audience at the KCRW Studios, Santa Monica in September of 1994. "

• Language: English
• Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works
• Release date: Jun 30, 2017
• ISBN: 9781580819251

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.