Mon, 21 December 2015
In CHRISTMAS BREAKS by Patrick Gabridge, a young man surprises his girlfriend with some curve ball gifts. Featuring Steven Boyer (Hand to God), Zach Appelman ("Sleepy Hollow", Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream) and Halley Feiffer. Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation between our Artistic Director, Claudia Catania and the cast. Playing on Air is a public radio show and podcast featuring great American short plays with great American actors. We distribute audio productions of contemporary short plays, translating stage works into enduring modern radio theater. We aim to redefine radio drama for today's digital, mobile audience. |
Sun, 6 December 2015
In The Miracle of Chanukah by Sheri Wilner, a holiday guest’s personal miracle throws a family for a loop. Featuring Zach Appelman, Peter Friedman, Judy Gold (Emmy Award), Marcia Jean Kurtz and Lisa Joyce. Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation with the playwright and cast. Playing on Air is a public radio show and podcast featuring great American short plays with great American actors. We distribute audio productions of contemporary short plays, translating stage works into enduring modern radio theater. We aim to redefine radio drama for today's digital, mobile audience.
Direct download: The_Miracle_of_Chanukah_Podcast.mp3
Category:Performing Arts -- posted at: 5:00am EDT |
Mon, 23 November 2015
Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins plays a VA hospital waiting room clerk coping with a World War II veteran’s short fuse and an Iraq veteran’s eight year old Latina daughter. Recorded live at BRIC Arts Media House in downtown Brooklyn, FORWARD OBSERVER features Tonya Pinkins (Tony winner for Caroline or Change), David Margulies and Kyndra Sanchez; directed by Anne Kauffman. |
Mon, 9 November 2015
In David Ives' short play THE PHILADELPHIA, ordering a sandwich is a challenge of epic proportions – let alone a beer. It features Carson Elrod, Jenn Harris, and Matthew Saldivar, directed by Tony Award winner John Rando. Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation with David Ives, John Rando and the cast.
Playing on Air is a public radio show and podcast featuring great American short plays with great American actors. We distribute audio productions of contemporary short plays, translating stage works into enduring modern radio theater. We aim to redefine radio drama for today's digital, mobile audience. |
Tue, 27 October 2015
WAKING UP, a short play by Cori Thomas, juxtaposes an American urbanite and an African villager’s triumph over breast cancer. Featuring Lynnette R. Freeman and Amy Staats. Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation between our Artistic Director, Claudia Catania and Cori Thomas. Playing on Air is a public radio show and podcast featuring great American short plays with great American actors. We distribute audio productions of contemporary short plays, translating stage works into enduring modern radio theater. We aim to redefine radio drama for today's digital, mobile audience. |
Mon, 28 September 2015
In this week's podcast, a short play by Frank Gilroy in which a scrappy GI, gleefully recalls how he went from almost flunking high school to the trenches of WWII to Dartmouth. GETTING IN written by Pulitzer and Tony Award winner, Frank Gilroy, features David Beach, Kim Bendheim, Matthew Cowles, Caroline Gilroy, Michael Godere, Carter Hudson, Lillian Laserson, Thomas Lyons, David Margulies, Fiana Toibin and Jack Wetherall. Playing on Air is a public radio show and podcast featuring great American short plays with great American actors. We distribute audio productions of contemporary short plays, translating stage works into enduring modern radio theater. We aim to redefine radio drama for today's digital, mobile audience.
Direct download: Getting_In_by_Frank_Gilroy_Podcast.mp3
Category:Performing Arts -- posted at: 4:30am EDT |
Mon, 14 September 2015
In this week's podcast, a short play by Jesse Eisenberg in which a young man displays his tenuous hold on reality when he co-opts the national tragedy of September 11th into a self-serving anxiety narrative. A LITTLE PART OF ALL OF US features Jesse Eisenberg (The Spoils, The Social Network, Zombieland) and Justin Bartha (The Hangover, National Treasure). Playing on Air is a public radio show and podcast featuring great American short plays with great American actors. We distribute audio productions of contemporary short plays, translating stage works into enduring modern radio theater. We aim to redefine radio drama for today's digital, mobile audience. |
Mon, 24 August 2015
In this week's podcast, a short play by Arlene Hutton: On the cusp of World War II, two young strangers meet on a train and find out they may know each other better than they know themselves. LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC features Mamie Gummer (“The Good Wife,” “Emily Owens MD,” “The Big C”) and Gregg Mozgala. Directed by John Rando.
Playing on Air is a public radio show and podcast featuring great American short plays with great American actors. We distribute audio productions of contemporary short plays, translating stage works into enduring modern radio theater. We aim to redefine radio drama for today's digital, mobile audience. |
Mon, 10 August 2015
In this week's podcast, a short play by Lynn Nottage in which a woman's words proove cosmically powerful. POOF! by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage (Ruined, Intimate Apparel, By The Way Meet Vera Stark) features multiple Tony winner Audra McDonald (Porgy and Bess, 110 In The Shade, A Raisin In The Sun, Ragtime), Tony winner Tonya Pinkins (Caroline or Change, Jelly's Last Jam) and Keith Randolph Smith.
Playing on Air is a public radio show and podcast featuring great American short plays with great American actors. We distribute audio productions of contemporary short plays, translating stage works into enduring modern radio theater. We aim to redefine radio drama for today's digital, mobile audience. |
Mon, 27 July 2015
In this week's podcast, a short play by David Lindsay-Abaire in which recovering addicts (Rosie Perez, John Leguizamo) have their Saturday night card game rudely interrupted by Bobby Cannavale, who plays good cop/bad cop all by himself. |
Mon, 13 July 2015
A young woman of "ill repute” grabs a chance at marriage and a client shows up with some jaw dropping news. Featuring Academy Award winner Chris Cooper, Emmy winner Margo Martindale, and Liv Rooth. Directed by Tony winner Doug Hughes. Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation moderated by our Artistic Director, Claudia Catania, with Ara Watson and the entire cast. Playing on Air is a public radio show and podcast featuring great American short plays with great American actors. We distribute audio productions of contemporary short plays, translating stage works into enduring modern radio theater. We aim to redefine radio drama for today's digital, mobile audience. |
Mon, 22 June 2015
In this week's podcast, a short play from Christopher Durang (Tony Award for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) in which a comfortable couple in Connecticut gets shaken up by a husband’s high school fling’s unexpected arrival. This radio drama features performances by Kate Jennings Grant (United 93, Frost/Nixon), Josh Hamilton (Frances Ha, J. Edgar), Jane Krakowski (“30 Rock”) Aaron Clifton Moten (The Flick at Playwrights Horizons), with a cameo from Christopher Durang. |
Mon, 8 June 2015
A door-to-door evangelist is invited into the home of an older man on his last day of service in Small Things, a short by Cary Pepper. With Bobby Steggert (Big Fish) and Jack Wetherall ("Queer as Folk"). Playing on Air is a public radio show and podcast featuring great American short plays with great American actors. We distribute audio productions of contemporary short plays, translating stage works into enduring modern radio theater. We aim to redefine radio drama for today's digital, mobile audience. |
Tue, 26 May 2015
Husband-wife team Anne Meara (1929-2015) and Jerry Stiller play former Yiddish theater stars who steal the show at a memorial service in the The Burial Society, a comic play by Susan Sandler. Also featuring George Morfogen. Followed by an interview with playwright Susan Sandler. Playing on Air is a public radio show and podcast featuring great American short plays with great American actors. We distribute audio productions of contemporary short plays, translating stage works into enduring modern radio theater. We aim to redefine radio drama for today's digital, mobile audience. |
Mon, 11 May 2015
On a flight to South Carolina, a young woman selects a new mother. A short play by Sheri Wilner, with Julie Halston, Michael Keck, Debra Monk and Merritt Wever.
Direct download: Relative_Strangers_for_iTunes.mp3
Category:Performing Arts -- posted at: 11:17am EDT |
Mon, 27 April 2015
In this short play by Jacquelyn Reingold, a lovers' quarrel between two aging actors reveals the depth of their commitment. With Jack Davidson and Beth Dixon. Visit Playing on Air online at playingonair.org, @playingonair and facebook.com/playingonair. |
Mon, 13 April 2015
In this short play by David Auburn, Pulitzer Prize winning author of PROOF, the daughter of a disgraced senator confronts the retired campaign strategist who dragged her family name through the dirt. With Rebecca Brooksher and David Rasche. Directed by David Auburn. Visting Playing on Air online at playingonair.org, facebook.com/playingonair and @playingonair on Twitter. |
Mon, 23 March 2015
In a play by "Law and Order: SVU" writer/producer and Tony Award winner, Warren Leight, three friends and basketball fans share two stadium seats and two decades of Knicks' getting trounced. With Geoffrey Cantor, Peter Jacobson ("HOUSE"), and Cezar Williams. Directed by Fred Berner. Followed by an interview with Berner, Cantor, Jacobson and Williams. Recorded live at BRIC Arts Media House, 12/1/2014. |
Mon, 9 March 2015
Sure Thing, a short play by David Ives, with Carson Elrod and Liv Rooth. From Playing on Air, Great American Short Plays with Great American Actors. |
Tue, 3 March 2015
In this short play by John Patrick Shanley (Pulitzer for DOUBT, Oscar for MOONSTRUCK), a dying man is visited by an Irish sprite. Featuring Aidan Quinn and Geraldine Hughes. |
Mon, 23 February 2015
After gay marriage is legalized in New York, one mother will stop at nothing to get her son to the altar. A short play by the humorist Paul Rudnick (Shouts & Murmurs The New Yorker), with multiple Tony winner Harriet Harris ("Frasier," "Desperate Housewives") and Michael Urie ("Ugly Betty"). Directed by Claudia Weill (Girlfriends, HBO's "Girls"). Recorded live. Original music by Tom Kochan. Followed by an interview with cast, playwright and director, moderated by PoA producer Claudia Catania. |