Steambath
Written by Bruce Jay Friedman
Narrated by Jason Alexander, Ed Asner and Full Cast
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Jason Alexander, Edward Asner, Gerrit Graham, Mary Gross, Kevin Gudahl, Arthur Hanket, Paul Mercier and Ruben Sierra.
Bruce Jay Friedman
Bruce Jay Friedman lives in New York City. A novelist, short story writer, playwright, memoirist, and screenwriter, he is the author of nineteen books, including Stern (1962), A Mother’s Kisses (1964), The Lonely Guy’s Book of Life (1978), and Lucky Bruce: A Literary Memoir (2011). His best-known works of stage and screen include the off-Broadway hit Steambath (1970) and the screenplays for Stir Crazy (1980) and Splash (1984), the latter of which received an Academy Award nomination. As editor of the anthology Black Humor (1965), Friedman helped popularize the distinctive literary style of that name in the United States and is widely regarded as one of its finest practitioners. According to the New York Times, his prose is “a pure pleasure machine.”
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Reviews for Steambath
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Madcap play from 1971. People find themselves in a steambath. Are they dead? is it a waiting room for Hell? Is the Puerto Rican Attendant really God? There are gay men and a lot of randy talk about sex. Apparently when it aired on TV it changed (or challenged?) the standards for what one could say on TV at the time. I laughed out loud when one character claimed for his generation that they had produced Norman Podhoretz.