Playing On Air: Short Audio Plays
176 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsHear short, contemporary stage plays with first-rate casts. Playing on Air brings together award winners and emerging young talent, and each play is followed by a conversation with the playwrights and cast. Tune in for great American plays with great American actors, hosted and produced by Claudia Catania.
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HOW TO BE A WIDOW by Tori Keenan-Zelt
November 08, 2020 09:30 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBOn a sweltering afternoon in 1864, two Civil War widows meet in a graveyard. Mirabelle is trying to paint a pineapple; Annaleigh needs to make sure that her husband hasn’t turned into a vampire. Together, the women begin to imagine the futures that might await them beyond corsets, lockets, and bullets. HOW TO BE A WIDOW by Emmy nominee Tori Keenan-Zelt (Kilroys List, Bay Area Playwrights Festival) features Mary Bacon (Lost Girls, Coal Country) and Naomi Lorrain (“Orange is the New Bla...
JEZELLE THE GAZELLE by Dominique Morisseau
October 25, 2020 08:30 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBJEZELLE THE GAZELLE continues Playing on Air’s yearlong celebration of MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ winner Dominique Morisseau (The Detroit Project, Pipeline, Ain't Too Proud — The Life and Times of the Temptations). Jezelle is ready to prove that she’s the best runner on her block: young, fierce, and definitely faster than any boy. But is she fast enough to outrun grief and claim her greatness? Starring Mirirai Sithole (School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, “Black Mirror”), JEZEL...
THE COURTSHIP OF ANNA NICOLE SMITH by Lucas Hnath
October 18, 2020 08:30 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MB“Back when I was a kid my mother took me to see a fortune teller for my 12th birthday… She said that when I am in my 20’s I will reach two paths. Two paths J. And I don’t know which one to pick.” In the parking lot behind a Houston strip club, a young dancer considers a proposal from an octogenarian billionaire. Before the world devours her story, she has to choose it. Written and directed by OBIE winner Lucas Hnath (Broadway’s Hillary and Clinton, A Doll’s House, Part 2), THE COURTSH...
ST. FRANCIS PREACHES TO THE BIRDS by David Ives (Re-Release)
August 23, 2020 08:30 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBIn the middle of the desert, two vultures find their lunch interrupted by a man of faith. Now, they have a bone to pick with Saint Francis of Assisi. Full of miraculous and mischievous wit, ST. FRANCIS PREACHES TO THE BIRDS by David Ives (Venus in Fur, PoA’s The Blizzard) features Carson Elrod (Peter and the Starcatcher, PoA’s Evening at Anaheim), Julie Halston (Tootsie, PoA’s Relative Strangers), Matthew Saldivar (Bernhardt/Hamlet, PoA’s The Philadelphia), an appearance by the legendary ...
CELL by Cassandra Medley (Re-Release)
August 16, 2020 08:30 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBTony winner Tonya Pinkins (Jelly’s Last Jam, “Fear the Walking Dead,” PoA’s Poof!), Tony nominee Condola Rashad (Saint Joan, “Billions”), and Melanie Nicholls-King ("The Wire," "Little Fires Everywhere”) star in Cassandra Medley’s CELL. When a jaded supervisor at an immigrant detention center finds jobs there for her sister and niece, family tensions erupt into a battle over home and homeland security. Directed by Diverse City Theater Company founder Victor Lirio, CELL by Cassandra Medley ...
ANNIVERSARY by Rachel Bonds (Re-Release)
August 09, 2020 08:30 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MB“This doesn’t seem like your kind of place - Why? I dunno. You don’t look like you eat a lot of crappy deli meat.” Through a haze of gin, mediocre roast beef, and horrible apartment parties, a grieving New Yorker finds herself drawn to a quirky, flirtatious friend-of-a-friend. Hurtling through time, ANNIVERSARY by Rachel Bonds (PoA’s Winter Games, Goodnight Nobody) follows a journey back to love. Ensemble Studio Theater’s Linsay Firman directs Sarah Sokolovic (“Big Little Lies,” P...
HAPPY by Alan Zweibel (Re-Release)
August 02, 2020 08:30 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBNever underestimate the persistence of a Mets fan. In HAPPY by Alan Zweibel (“SNL,” 700 Sundays with Billy Crystal), a baseball fan shows up at the home of his childhood hero, George "Happy" Halliday. Has the stranger come to pay his respects or to throw a curveball? A comedy for anyone who’s ever wished for an extra inning, HAPPY stars Frankie Faison (“The Wire”) and Scott Adsit (“30 Rock,” PoA’s Wild and Precious Life), directed by Fred Berner. After the live recording, join the artist...
Getting to Know You!
July 26, 2020 08:30 - 1 minute - 1.05 MBHi Playing on Air listeners! We hope you're all safe and well. If you're willing to give us around 10 minutes of your time, we'd like to get to know you a bit better; it'll help us to program episodes of Playing on Air that you'll love. Go to playingonair.org/survey to fill out our listener survey. And, as a thank-you, you'll be treated to a message from a very special guest.
G.O.A.T. by Ngozi Anyanwu
May 31, 2020 08:30 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBJay, Bonita, and Row have gathered on the rooftop to burn the sage and drink the sacred Gatorade. To pray to the goddess Nike, and the ghosts of Billie Jean King and Arthur Ashe. To summon victory for their beloved champion: Serena Williams, the Greatest Of All Time. Directed by Whitney White (What to Send Up When It Goes Down, Our Dear Dead Drug Lord) and featuring original music by Jeremy Lloyd (Marian Hill, clear eyes), G.O.A.T. is an electric celebration of Black Girl Magic, on and of...
IF YOU WIN by Emily Chadick Weiss
May 24, 2020 08:30 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBJohn Lithgow ("The Crown," "3rd Rock from the Sun," Hillary and Clinton) and Tony nominee Steven Boyer (Hand to God, PoA's An Upset) star in Emily Chadick Weiss's IF YOU WIN. On the eve of a local election, candidate Hal Wheelwright (Lithgow) receives an unexpected offer from his opponent's son (Boyer). Is this an act of political sabotage or a blessing in disguise? After the play, director Giovanna Sardelli (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Atlantic's Describe the Night) joins Chadick Wei...
JUNE WEDDINGS by Barbara Hammond
May 17, 2020 08:30 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBOne summer morning, in a cool and dusty bar, two strangers seek refuge from the past. RJ is a single father, on a break from his only son’s wedding. The mysterious Sonja is patient and sympathetic, but may have her own priorities. Two strangers meeting is an old story, but the possibility of a true connection always feels new. Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei ("My Cousin Vinny," Broadway’s The Rose Tattoo) stars with Michael C. Hall (“Dexter,” Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and Alfredo Narcis...
HUMAN RESOURCES by Jason Gray Platt
May 10, 2020 08:30 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBPlaying on Air is proud to present the winner of our 2019 James Stevenson Prize: Jason Gray Platt’s HUMAN RESOURCES. Tech start-up Diddly has a problem: their staff is whiter than a Coldplay concert in Vermont. Fortunately, Human Resources has a plan to “improve” Diddly’s corporate culture —at least in theory. A biting satire about virtue signaling and elephant milk, HUMAN RESOURCES features Tony winner Julie White (Airline Highway, A Doll’s House, Part 2) and Tony nominee Steven Boyer (...
CLEAN SLATE by Rajiv Joseph
May 03, 2020 08:30 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBCLEAN SLATE by Rajiv Joseph (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Guards at the Taj) is Part Two of a thriller that begins with last week’s episode, Doug Wright’s FAKE NEWS. Special Agents Angie Mallinson and Vince Lazar just want to assure you that nothing horrible has happened at the KLWP News Hour. You may have heard rumors about a band of Kabuki-masked killers. You may have heard whispers about a mysterious vigilante group. Ignore them — no matter what you think you saw. Oscar nominee ...
FAKE NEWS by Doug Wright
April 26, 2020 08:30 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBContent Warning: Violence Anchors Bob Tunley and Fran Mercer are the iconic voices behind radio’s KLWP News Hour — but today, they’ve become the story. As bizarre and menacing soundbites interrupt their live broadcast, the studio crew begins to fear that they’re under attack. Mark Brokaw (Broadway’s How I Learned to Drive, Cinderella) directs Obie winner Eisa Davis (Passing Strange, PoA’s Gun Show), Tony nominees Jeremy Shamos (Clybourne Park, PoA’s Hedgehog Years) and Steven Boyer (Han...
WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE by Patricia Cotter
April 19, 2020 08:30 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBThere's a lot of money to be made at this funeral. Friends and flames have gathered to celebrate and remember the WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE of the charismatic, outrageous Sheila (Tony & Emmy winner Debra Monk) — but the dearly departed still has one more trick up her sleeve. WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE by Emmy winner Patricia Cotter (PoA's Rules of Comedy, The Daughters) features an ensemble cast of Playing on Air favorites — Monk, Scott Adsit, Lucy DeVito, Denise Manning, Lisa Emery, and Jef...
NIGHT VISION by Dominique Morisseau
April 12, 2020 08:30 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBContent Warning: Violence “I don’t want you hunting anyone. What if you become the prey?” On a night walk in Brooklyn, pregnant Ayanna and her husband Ezra witness a sudden, violent attack. But when they call the police, doubts arise. Did they get a good look at the attacker’s face? What color was his sweatshirt? And — why do their memories differ so drastically? Originally commissioned as part of New Black Fest’s “Facing Our Truth: Ten-Minute Plays on Trayvon, Race and Pr...
THE CLAM by Amanda Quaid
April 05, 2020 08:30 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBTony Shalhoub and Kristine Nielsen star in Amanda Quaid’s THE CLAM, the Second Place winner of Playing on Air’s 2019 James Stevenson Prize competition. After a lifetime of playing it safe , a wistful clam (Shalhoub) decides to come out of his shell with help from a therapist (Nielsen). His friends are disappearing without a trace, he’s lost touch with thousands of his children, and he’s desperate for a pearl to call his own. Alternately tongue-in-cheek and deeply identifiable, THE CLA...
New Season Out Next Sunday, April 5!
March 29, 2020 08:30 - 55 seconds - 950 KBPlaying on Air's Spring 2020 Season is finally here! Starting next Sunday and continuing every Sunday throughout April and May, we’ll be releasing a new short play. We feel extremely fortunate to be able to share our artists' beautiful work with you, even in these uncertain times. The season is chock-full of incredible short plays, performances, and original music, and features the talents of Tony Shalhoub, John Lithgow, Marisa Tomei, Michael C. Hall, Scott Adsit, Debra Monk, Do...
An Exciting Announcement about Playing on Air!
February 23, 2020 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.55 MBWe're announcing some exciting changes to Playing on Air's release calendar! Listen to find out more.
NUDITY RIDER by Hamish Linklater (Re-Release)
February 09, 2020 09:30 - 36 minutes - 33 MBWe're re-releasing 5 of our most popular episodes for a 2020 fresh start! (Psst: keep your eyes open for an exciting announcement, coming soon...) Michael C. Hall ("Dexter," Hedwig and The Angry Inch), Martha Plimpton ("The Good Wife," PoA's Gun Show), and actor-playwright Hamish Linklater (The Big Short, "Legion") star in NUDITY RIDER, a world-premiere comedy by Linklater. The cameras are ready to roll on the set of a New Orleans basic cable show, but the high-strung leading man, Kei...
RULES OF COMEDY by Patricia Cotter (Re-Release)
February 02, 2020 09:30 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBWe're re-releasing 5 of our most popular episodes for a 2020 fresh start! (Psst: keep your eyes open for an exciting announcement, coming soon...) Caroline can't find anything funny -- not her awkward love life, not her jaded standup coach Guy, and definitely not the punchlines she's been reading in 101 Dirty Jokes. Originally produced at the Humana Festival at the Actors Theater of Louisville, Patricia Cotter's RULES OF COMEDY is a playful, wry look at the lives of comedians when they...
CRAZY EIGHTS by David Lindsay-Abaire (Re-Release)
January 26, 2020 09:30 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBWe're re-releasing 5 of our most popular episodes for a 2020 fresh start! (Psst: keep your eyes open for an exciting announcement, coming soon...) Two recovering addicts (Rosie Perez, John Leguizamo) have their Saturday night card game interrupted by a love-struck parole officer (Bobby Cannavale) with major boundary issues. Written and directed by Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole, Good People), the madcap comedy CRAZY EIGHTS features Emmy winner Bobby Cannavale (Th...
POOF! by Lynn Nottage (Re-Release)
January 19, 2020 09:30 - 26 minutes - 24 MBWe're re-releasing 5 of our most popular episodes for a 2020 fresh start! (Psst: keep your eyes open for an exciting announcement, coming soon...) Loureen is at the end of her rope. And now, she's just turned her husband into a pile of ashes. As Lynn Nottage's funny and wrenching POOF! opens, Loureen (Audra McDonald) has inadvertently made her abusive husband (Keith Randolph Smith) disappear. Enter her friend and neighbor Florence (Tonya Pinkins) to help her pick up the pieces and begin...
MISADVENTURE by Donald Margulies (Re-Release)
January 12, 2020 09:30 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MBWe're re-releasing 5 of our most popular episodes for a 2020 fresh start! (Psst: keep your eyes open for an exciting announcement, coming soon...) The police picked up teenage Ethan (Timothée Chalamet) for drunkenly wandering down the highway. Now, he's facing the real reckoning for his Misadventure: the wrath of his big sister (Zoe Kazan.) Playwright and director Donald Margulies is a Pulitzer Prize winner for Dinner with Friends and a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Sight Unseen a...
COUNTING IN SHA'AB by Emma Goldman-Sherman
December 22, 2019 09:30 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MB"Life as usual and then the sky falls in." There's a crater in the middle of the street - again. After a deadly car bomb explodes in the Sha'ab neighborhood of Baghdad, grocery store owner Abu Omar and his neighbors attempt to clear the rubble and assess the damage. Is this the new normal? Directed by Obie winner Omar Metwally (Guards at the Taj, "The Affair"), Emma Goldman-Sherman's COUNTING IN SHA'AB asks who - and what - counts in a community where everyday life is disrupted every d...
BEYOND GLORY: JOHN WILLIAM FINN by Stephen Lang
December 07, 2019 09:30 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBContent advisory: this episode contains language and themes that may not be appropriate for younger listeners. "One of the richest, most complex pieces of acting I've seen in my theater going life." - The Wall Street Journal, on Stephen Lang's Beyond Glory A special release for Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, BEYOND GLORY: JOHN WILLIAM FINN is part of the longer work Beyond Glory, by Stephen Lang. On the morning of December 7, 1941, when the attack on Pearl Harbor began, Medal...
THE WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING VIOLET by Max Baker
November 24, 2019 09:30 - 24 minutes - 22.2 MBI know I’m not your therapist. I’m your brother. In THE WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING VIOLET by Max Baker, two brothers struggle with three of life’s great fears: death, guilt, and the false sparkle of domestic bliss. Brandon Dirden (All the Way on Broadway) and Jason Dirden ("Greenleaf," Broadway's A Raisin in the Sun) are directed by Carrie Preston (“True Blood,” “The Good Wife”). Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation with the artists moderated by host Claudia Catania. This episod...
3:59 AM: A DRAG RACE FOR TWO ACTORS by Marco Ramirez
November 10, 2019 09:30 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBIt's summer in the city, and Laz and Hector are both on the run from something they can't quite name. Maybe the sudden need for speed has something to do with Laz's sister, who took off two weeks ago, or with Hector's wife, who just called from the hospital. Featuring Bobby Moreno ("Homeland," Lazarus, PoA's Acorn) and Sean Carvajal (Broadway's King Lear, Jesus Hopped the A Train), Marco Ramirez's 3:59 AM: a drag race for two actors paints a blazing, late-night portrait of two young men tear...
3:59 AM: A DRAG RACE FOR TWO ACTORS
November 10, 2019 09:30 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBIt's summer in the city, and Laz and Hector are both on the run from something they can't quite name. Maybe the sudden need for speed has something to do with Laz's sister, who took off two weeks ago, or with Hector's wife, who just called from the hospital. Featuring Bobby Moreno ("Homeland," Lazarus, PoA's Acorn) and Sean Carvajal (Broadway's King Lear, Jesus Hopped the A Train), Marco Ramirez's 3:59 AM: a drag race for two actors paints a blazing, late-night portrait of two young men tear...
LA TRAVIATA by Lisa D'Amour
October 27, 2019 08:30 - 28 minutes - 66 MBDebra Monk, Johanna Day, Katie Finneran, and Zach Appelman star in the world-premiere audio production of LA TRAVIATA by Lisa D’Amour (Pulitzer Prize finalist for Detroit, Airline Highway). Outside of New Orleans, three sisters have gathered to celebrate Mother's Day and lament the scandalous fate of their poor, wayward nephew. But beneath their breezy porch gossip, there are family secrets of operatic proportions waiting to be uncovered. Tony & Emmy winner Monk ("Mozart in the Jungle," "...
2B OR NOT 2B by Jacquelyn Reingold
October 13, 2019 08:30 - 18 minutes - 17 MBSometimes, the most seductive offers come from unexpected messengers. Heartbroken on a Friday night, Franny (Jenn Harris) finds herself confronted by a charming bee (William Jackson Harper) with a buzzy - and delicious - proposal. Recorded live, 2B OR NOT 2B by Jacquelyn Reingold ("The Good Fight," HBO's "In Treatment) features Harper ("The Good Place," Midsommar, All the Way) and Harris ("High Maintenance," Gayby). After the play, host Claudia Catania joins director Michael Barakiva ...
THERE YOU ARE by Leslie Ayvazian
September 22, 2019 08:30 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MB"Have you spoken of it?" "No. No one." After 31 years apart, two widows meet by chance at a concert and consider the whirlwind romance that they didn't dare to pursue - until now. Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck, Netflix's "Tales of the City) and Tony nominee Maria Tucci (The Slap, Broadway's The Rose Tattoo) star in Leslie Ayvazian's There You Are. After the play, Ayvazian and host Claudia Catania discuss music onstage, desire, and the playwright...
A LITTLE PART OF ALL OF US by Jesse Eisenberg (Re-Release)
September 08, 2019 08:30 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBJesse Eisenberg (The Social Network, PoA's The Blizzard) is both playwright and actor in the satirical short A LITTLE PART OF ALL OF US. Since 9/11, anxious hipster Joey (Eisenberg) has been haunted by survivor's guilt. Or -- maybe he's just co-opting a national tragedy to justify a decade of depression? A LITTLE PART OF ALL OF US also stars Justin Bartha (The Hangover trilogy, “The Good Fight”) as Ted, Joey's deadpan "friend." Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation between host...
THE GOODNESS OF YOUR HEART by David Ives
August 25, 2019 08:30 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBWhat would you sacrifice for a lifelong pal? A kidney? Your safety? $900 -- for a very specific television? From acclaimed wordsmith David Ives (Venus in Fur, PoA's The Blizzard), THE GOODNESS OF YOUR HEART asks what the limits of friendship really are. Directed by Tony winner John Rando (Broadway's On the Town, PoA's The Philadelphia), the cast features comedic favorites Arnie Burton (Broadway's Peter and the Starcatcher, PoA's The Mystery at Twicknam Vicarage) and Rick Holmes (Broadway...
AT THE WATER'S EDGE, WET by Jonathan Bernstein (Re-Release)
August 11, 2019 08:30 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBThe curtain is up. The show is in progress. But for two stage managers calling the cues behind the scenes, the night's most dazzling romance isn't playing out onstage. Written and directed by Jonathan Bernstein (PoA's Rules of Comedy & A Very Very Short Play), AT THE WATER'S EDGE, WET stars Callie Thorne (“Necessary Roughness,” “Rescue Me,” “The Wire”) and Tony nominee Jeremy Shamos (Broadway's Clybourne Park, "Better Call Saul," PoA's Hedgehog Years). Stay tuned after the performance for a...
NUDITY RIDER by Hamish Linklater
July 28, 2019 08:30 - 36 minutes - 33 MBMichael C. Hall ("Dexter," Hedwig and The Angry Inch), Martha Plimpton ("The Good Wife," PoA's Gun Show), and actor-playwright Hamish Linklater (The Big Short, "Legion") star in NUDITY RIDER, a world-premiere comedy by Linklater. The cameras are ready to roll on the set of a New Orleans basic cable show, but the high-strung leading man, Keith Saturday, has a problem: his most up-close-and-personal scene has been unexpectedly rescheduled for today. And he's been eating. A lot. Now, an i...
MY HUSBAND by Paul Rudnick
July 14, 2019 08:30 - 19 minutes - 18.4 MBA wedding isn't a competition - until the mothers get involved. After gay marriage is legalized in New York, one meddling matriarch will stop at nothing to get her son to the altar. Starring Michael Urie (Broadway's Torch Song, "Ugly Betty," PoA's A Departure) and Tony winner Harriet Harris ("Frasier," "Desperate Housewives," Phantom Thread), MY HUSBAND by Paul Rudnick (The New Yorker, the upcoming The Devil Wears Prada musical) is directed by Claudia Weill (Girlfriends, HBO's "Girls,...
NEW YORK STORY by Mike Reiss (Re-Release)
June 30, 2019 08:30 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MB"It's not luck, it's fate. You, me - a couple of old showbiz pros. At the same place, at the same time..." When a slick comedian (Ed Asner) and leading lady (Elizabeth Ashley), now both in their seventies, meet by chance in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge, the retired performers catch a glimmer of the magic they've been missing in their daily lives. Also featuring Daphne Rubin-Vega and Peter Jacobson and directed by Michael Wilson, "The Simpsons" writer Mike Reiss's NEW YORK STORY is ...
TWO DADS by David Auburn
June 16, 2019 08:30 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBContent warning: this play deals with themes of domestic violence. "You can’t really influence them. You can maybe adjust the trajectory a little bit, you can try to guide, but after a certain point? No." Emmy winner Bobby Cannavale ("Will & Grace," Broadway's The Lifespan of a Fact, PoA's Gun Show) and Tony nominee Peter Gallagher ("Grace and Frankie," "The O.C.") star in a live recording of TWO DADS by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner David Auburn (Proof, PoA's An Upset), Whe...
HEDGEHOG YEARS by Lily Akerman
May 26, 2019 08:30 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MB"Any words spoken by hedgehogs in this play are in translation. Please note that all translations are betrayals..." Emmy winner Carol Kane (The Princess Bride, Hester Street, "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt") and Tony nominee Jeremy Shamos ("Better Call Saul," Clybourne Park) star in Lily Akerman's Hedgehog Years, the second place winner of Playing on Air's 2018 James Stevenson Prize. When he was five, Theo (Shamos) met his best friend: an excitable hedgehog (Kane) who loves leftovers and lo...
HATE BABY by Gracie Gardner
May 12, 2019 08:30 - 19 minutes - 18 MBContent advisory: this episode contains themes that may not be appropriate for younger listeners. Sigrid has a new little bundle of joy, and she's worried that he might be... evil. Today, she's tagging out: this baby is her neighbor Darla's problem now. Just in time for Mother's Day, Gracie Gardner's HATE BABY, the winner of Playing on Air's 2018 James Stevenson Prize for Comedic Short Plays, delves into the often-gross, ever-changing world of new parenthood. HATE BABY features Emily...
AN UPSET by David Auburn
April 28, 2019 08:30 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBContent advisory: this episode contains explicit language and sexual references. When a cocky, jaded tennis star (David Harbour) loses a pivotal match to an inexperienced Romanian player (Steven Boyer), the two men lock into an unlikely battle for dominance on and off the court. Over the course of three encounters on the Grand Slam circuit, AN UPSET by David Auburn (Tony & Pulitzer winner for Proof) peers irreverently, and explosively, behind the locker room door. After the play, Tony no...
TWO CROWS APART by Max Baker
April 14, 2019 08:30 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBUnwanted house guests. A murder of crows. Is something brewing in the raw, early morning? In TWO CROWS APART, Ciarán Hinds (Mance Rayder in "Game of Thrones,"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and Geraldine Hughes (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Jerusalem, Playing on Air's The Mandela Effect) paint a virtuosic, unfiltered portrait of marriage. After the play, director and playwright Max Baker (Broadway's 1984, The Mandela Effect) and the cast join hos...
THE HELPERS by Cusi Cram
March 24, 2019 08:30 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBWhat do you do when your former therapist starts talking to a cat that isn't there? When Nate meets his longtime psychiatrist in the park, he realizes that she may be losing it. With tenderness and humor, Cusi Cram's THE HELPERS asks if we can reconnect with the life-altering figures who were never exactly our friends to begin with. THE HELPERS stars Tony & Emmy winner Jane Alexander (Warm Springs, The Great White Hope) and Peter Jacobson (Dr. Chris Taub on “House,” "The Americans"). After...
MILTON BRADLEY by Peter Sagal (Re-Release)
March 10, 2019 08:30 - 21 minutes - 20 MBHow do you eulogize a woman who everybody hated? In Peter Sagal's MILTON BRADLEY, Rabbi Schoenberg (Michael Stuhlbarg), faced with this dilemma, turns to a metaphor: the game of Life (the board game, that is). Featuring Stuhlbarg (Call Me By Your Name, The Shape of Water) and Bob Balaban (Gosford Park, Christopher Guest & Wes Anderson ensemble regular), MILTON BRADLEY is a darkly funny exploration of where we're all headed one day. Stay tuned after the play for a conversation w...
BEYOND GLORY: CLARENCE SASSER by Stephen Lang
February 24, 2019 09:30 - 15 minutes - 14 MBBEYOND GLORY "allows the voices of servicemen to be heard without the filter of the conventions of drama or the prerogatives of deadline-driven journalism" (NY Times). Since 2004, Tony-nominated actor Stephen Lang (The Speed of Darkness, Avatar) has traveled the nation - and the world - performing BEYOND GLORY, a gripping look into the lives of Medal of Honor-decorated veterans, both on and off the battlefield. A candid, vivid, and unsparing journey behind the front lines, CLARENCE SASSER...
52ND TO BOWERY TO COBBLE HILL, IN BROOKLYN by Chiara Atik
February 10, 2019 09:30 - 24 minutes - 22.2 MB"I just don't like you very much... Just. Middle of the road not liking you, I think." In Chiara Atik's 52nd to Bowery to Cobble Hill, in Brooklyn, Halle is taking a late-night cab ride through Manhattan with her bubbly acquaintance Alison. Halle didn't mean to blurt out how she really feels about their "friendship," but now they're stuck in traffic on Broadway and 4th, dealing with it. Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt (Colt Coeur), Atik's modern comedy features Molly Bernard ("Tran...
CARRY THE ZERO by Christopher Sullivan
January 13, 2019 09:00 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBCARRY THE ZERO "gets the awkwardness of teenage hookup culture squeamishly right" (NY Times). Mark and Nicole just had sex for the first time, and now they're facing the long, embarrassing drive back to Nicole's house. Directed by John Giampietro, Christopher Sullivan's short play stars David Gelles (Graceland at LCT3, NBC's "Deception") and Arielle Goldman ("The Knick," "The Marvelous Ms. Maisel") in an intimate and brutally funny look back at sexual awakening in the age of instant messe...
THE BLIZZARD by David Ives (Bonus Release!)
January 06, 2019 09:00 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBWith a storm raging outside, a horror screenwriter (Jesse Eisenberg) and his wife (Heidi Schreck) are cozying up for a romantic weekend in the middle of nowhere. The weather outside is frightful -- and so is the mysterious couple that just arrived on their doorstep. Directed by John Rando and starring Eisenberg (The Social Network, Playing on Air's A Little Part of All of Us), Schreck (What the Constitution Means to Me), Alfredo Narciso (Time and the Conways, PoA's West of Stupid and ...
RULES OF COMEDY by Patricia Cotter
December 23, 2018 09:00 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBCaroline can't find anything funny -- not her awkward love life, not her jaded standup coach Guy, and definitely not the punchlines she's been reading in 101 Dirty Jokes. Originally produced at the Humana Festival at the Actors Theater of Louisville, Patricia Cotter's RULES OF COMEDY is a playful, wry look at the lives of comedians when they dare to go offstage and off script. Directed by Jonathan Bernstein, Cotter's short comedy stars Louisa Krause (The Flick, Billions, PoA's Winter Game...