WORDTheatre® Weekly: The Best Short Stories Performed Live in LA, NY & UK
180 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsEach week, WORDTheatre shares a brilliant short story performed live in LA, NY or London by a great actor. Like what you hear? Visit WORDTheatre.org/Membership/ to enjoy live events and recordings by becoming a Patron or Enthusiast Member! WORDTheatre® is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in the US and a Dual Charitable Trust in the UK. We are on a mission to make a better world one story at a time.
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Episodes
In The Cosmos Part l featuring an All Star Cast of Actors & Musicians
April 13, 2024 19:22 - 54 minutes - 74.6 MB
The Good Wife's Juliana Margulies & Amexicano's Raul Castillo plus The Walking Dead's Xander Berkeley perform stories by Dan Chaon
April 06, 2024 18:28 - 57 minutes - 79.5 MB
Dan Chaon Stories: Amexicano's Raul Castillo and The Good Wife's Juliana Margulies perform "That's Him, That's The Guy!" and The Walking Dead's Xander Berkeley performs "Take This Brother, May It Serve You Well"
April 06, 2024 18:28 - 57 minutes - 79.5 MB
The Good Fight's Michael Boatman performs "Federation for the Like-Minded" by Sidik Fofana
March 30, 2024 18:59 - 27 minutes - 37.7 MB
The Walking Dead's David Morrissey & The Last Kingdom's Ian Hart perform Kevin Barry's Beer Trip to Llandudno
March 16, 2024 05:16 - 40 minutes - 55.4 MB
CSI's Robert David Hall performs "The Pass" by Steve Almond
March 09, 2024 14:40 - 36 minutes - 50.6 MB
Appropriate Behavior's Halley Feiffer performs "Ask For Pain" by Julie Orringer
March 02, 2024 19:59 - 22 minutes - 51.9 MB
American Fiction's Keith David performs "Rope Burn" by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
February 25, 2024 01:09 - 12 minutes - 17.3 MB
American Fiction's Sterling K Brown performs "Lost and Found" by John Edgar Wideman & Rustin's Colman Domingo performs "Condemned" by John Edgar Wideman
February 18, 2024 07:59 - 9 minutes - 21.8 MB
Greenleaf's Lynn Whitfield performs "Lamentations" by John Edgar Wideman
February 10, 2024 20:00 - 33 minutes - 76.3 MB
Avatar's CCH Pounder performs "By Love Possessed" by Lorna Goodison
February 03, 2024 20:15 - 22 minutes - 51.7 MB
The Walking Dead's Xander Berkeley performs "Rastrows Island" by T.C. Boyle
January 21, 2024 07:59 - 36 minutes - 84.5 MB
This is Us's Sterling K. Brown performs Alluvial Deposits by Percival Everett
January 14, 2024 07:59 - 33 minutes - 46 MB
David Soul, we honor you by sharing your brilliance, never to be forgotten...
January 07, 2024 05:30 - 27 minutes - 62.8 MB
White Collar's Tim DeKay performs a New Year's story, Lore Segal's "The Arbus Factor"
December 31, 2023 05:42 - 10 minutes - 25 MB
Gotham's Donal Logue performs "The H Street Sledding Record" by Ron Carlson
December 22, 2023 07:46 - 22 minutes - 31 MB
UnREAL's Craig Bierko performs "The Birds For Christmas" by Mark Richard
December 17, 2023 07:59 - 20 minutes - 48.1 MB
Whiplash's JK Simmons performs Brian Doyle's The Meterorites
December 10, 2023 07:00 - 35 minutes - 81.5 MB
Guardians of the Galaxy's Gregg Henry performs "The Swing" by Margaret McMullan
December 03, 2023 07:59 - 32 minutes - 74.6 MB
The Good Wife's Julianna Margulies performs Thanksgiving by Joyce Carol Oates
November 25, 2023 07:59 - 31 minutes - 71.3 MBIn what is becoming an annual tradition on the WORDTheatre Short Story Podcast, we are featuring Julianna Margulies performance of Joyce Carol Oates wonderfully bizarre short story, Thanksgiving, introduced by the author! Enjoy! ★ Support this podcast ★
Station 19's Jason George performs "The Astronaut" by Ben Loory and The Righteous Gemstones' Cassidy Freeman performs "She Floats 1969" by Meg Howrey
November 19, 2023 07:59 - 25 minutes - 59 MB
Veterans' Day Special: House of Cards' Kevin Kilner performs "Leper" by veteran author Tom Bird
November 11, 2023 22:29 - 20 minutes - 47.2 MB
Marcia Gay Harden performs "Reading in his Wake" by Pamela Painter & Christopher McDonald performs " Today Will Be A Quiet Day" by Amy Hempel
November 05, 2023 15:27 - 29 minutes - 66.8 MB
Black Panther's Danny Sapani performs 'Comrade Piso's Justice' by Petina Gappah and Ted Lasso's Harriet Walter performs 'Her First American' by Lore Segal
October 30, 2023 06:59 - 1 hour - 176 MB
Starsky & Hutch's David Soul, Ozark's Jason Butler Harner, The Witcher's MyAnna Buring, Lizzie Ball on violin: Stories & Poems by Siv Cedering: A 2020 Winter Solstice Literary Celebration, with some music by Jonathan Sacks!
October 22, 2023 06:59 - 57 minutes - 132 MB
"Searching the Cosmos: the Ultimate Quest" Full Show narrated by John Schwab with Ben Miller, Jason Isaacs, Gina Bellman & Matt Barber featuring original music by Jonatha Sacks & Starr Parodi
October 15, 2023 06:59 - 1 hour - 139 MB
Guardian's of the Galaxy's Gregg Henry performs 'Subtract One Zero' by TC Boyle and NYPD Blue's Sharon Lawrence performs 'Hospital' by Michelle Latiolais
October 08, 2023 06:59 - 1 hour - 218 MB
Liar Liar's Amanda Donohoe performs "Totty" by James Lasdun and Starsky & Hutch's David Soul performs "What Time is it Where You Are?" by Colum McCann
October 01, 2023 06:59 - 1 hour - 87.6 MB
The Sinner's Bill Pullman performs 'Au Sable' by Joyce Carol Oates and Simply Heavenly's Rhashan Stone performs Nabo by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
September 24, 2023 15:29 - 1 hour - 55.3 MB
Hina Abdullah's performs 'Saint Chola' by Kerrie Kvashay-Boyle & Imogen Poots performs 'Nickel Mines Hardware' by Linda Oatman High
September 17, 2023 06:59 - 1 hour - 59.1 MB
Annette O'Toole performs 'Silver Water' by Amy Bloom & Roma Maffia performs 'Appleless' by Aimee Bender.
September 10, 2023 06:59 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MB
Robert Forster performs "The Visit" by Russell Banks & John Heard performs "Greasy Lake" by TC Boyle
August 27, 2023 06:59 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MB
Excerpts: Brian Cox reads from early memoir & and Forest Whitaker performs Curt Flood's unpublished memoir
August 20, 2023 06:59 - 47 minutes - 44 MB
Dan Chaon's "Prosthesis" read by Frasier's Peri Gilpin & Donald Hall's "Revivals' read by James Cromwell
August 13, 2023 06:59 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MB
Raymond Carver's "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" performed by Weekend at Bernie's Andrew McCarthy
August 06, 2023 05:45 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MB
Righteous Gemstones' Cassidy Freeman performs 'The Summer Before' by Alethea Black
July 30, 2023 06:59 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MB
Downton Abbey's Elizabeth McGovern Performs "Keith" by Ron Carlson
July 23, 2023 06:59 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MB
REBROADCAST Starsky & Hutch's David Soul performs "My Uncle's Numbers" by Siv Cedering
July 15, 2023 06:23 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBThis episode of the WORDTheatre Short Story Podcast features David Soul performing "My Uncle's Numbers" by Siv Cedering. Please support us by signing up on our website at WORDTheatre.org, by writing us a review, and by sharing this link with friends! Our Live Author/Actor Events are available free to Annual WordTheatre Members every month!
JAZZ Special with Danny Sapani, Ginny Holder, Indira Varma & Joseph Marcell
July 09, 2023 06:44 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MB
Game of Thrones' Gethin Anthony performs 'Reassurance' by Allan Gurganus
July 02, 2023 06:59 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MB
Search Engine's Joely Fisher performs Tim O'Brien's "The Streak"
June 24, 2023 22:10 - 28 minutes - 26 MB
House's Lisa Edelstein performs 'How I Became a Banker' by Lisa Cupolo
June 17, 2023 16:59 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MB
Scandal's Dan Bucatinsky performs 'Biology' by Kevin Wilson
June 11, 2023 06:59 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MB
Hanif Kureishi's 'She Said, He Said,' performed by Game of Thrones' Indira Varma, Hollington Drive's Rhashan Stone, Happy Valley's Derek Riddell & Love Actually's Nina Sosanya
June 04, 2023 00:59 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MB
Brian Doyle's 'Memorial Day'performed by Michael Nouri plus JK Simmons, Laura San Giacomo, Dohn Norwood, Bruce Vilanch perform others
May 28, 2023 02:30 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MB