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John Ball's In the Heat of the Night

by John Ball
Matt Pelfrey
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Based on John Ball's novel which inspired the Oscar-winning film and the Emmy-winning television series, In the Heat of the Night pits a visiting black detective from California against a small Alabama town simmering with anger over desegregation. A fitting reflection of America in the 1960s, this Off-Broadway hit is provocative, timely, and uncomfortably relevant.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, featuring Ryan Vincent Anderson, Michael Hammond, Kalen Harriman, Travis Johns, James Morrison, Darren Richardson, and Tom Virtue.

Directed by Brian Kite. Recorded before a live audience by L.A. Theatre Works.

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  • Release date

    February 15, 2015

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781580819732
      • File size: 57544 KB
      • Duration: 01:59:52

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Opening with the sounds of a crisp blues guitar and a car on a lonely gravel road, L.A. Theatre Works performs the off-Broadway adaptation of this classic 1960s story. A black California homicide detective is passing through a backwater Alabama town that just happens to have had a murder. The performances deliver all the tension, humor, and grit of the original novel and film. As Vigil Tibbs and Police Chief Bill Gillespie, Ryan Vincent Anderson and James Morrison lead a fine cast whose characters must overcome their own prejudices and differences to solve the crime. The story is as provocative, socially relevant, and edgy as the day it was written. B.P. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 23, 2015
      Novelist Ball’s racially charged 1965 whodunit features a brilliant black homicide detective from Southern California named Virgil Tibbs who’s forced by circumstance to help a racist white police chief solve a murder in a small Southern town. Fans who remember the 1968 Oscar-winning movie may be surprised by several elements of this version of the novel, including a murderer who doesn’t appear in either the screen version or the book itself—but that does not diminish this fast-paced, splendidly performed entertainment. Led by Ryan Vincent Anderson as Tibbs and James Morrison as the police chief, the ensemble, under the direction of Brian Kite, gives Ball’s story an engrossing audio presentation reminiscent of the days when radio drama was in its prime. More than just a satisfying detective story, the production effectively conveys the mood of simmering hostility that existed in smalltown America during the Civil Rights Movement.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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