No Script: The Podcast

A witty procedural play about an American city with a dark secret, Tracy Letts' The Minutes is having its moment with productions all over the country. Listen in as Jackson and Jacob discuss the many layered storytelling decisions Letts expertly makes throughout.  ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script P...

Jackson and Jacob discuss a community-oriented, experiential one-person show: Duncan Macmillan's Every Brilliant Thing. Listen in! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue.  https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodcast  ----------------------------- We want to keep the conversation going! H...

In the final episode of Mini-Mini Month, Jackson and Jacob discuss a storytelling play set deep in the night. Marco Ramirez' 3:59AM: A Drag Race for Two Actors is fast paced, engaging, and mysterious. Listen in!   ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue.  https://www.patreon.com/noscr...

It's the third episode of Mini-Mini Month and Jackson and Jacob needed a laugh. So they turned to Jen Silverman's hilarious, ghost-hunting-turned-romance play Ghost Bros. Listen in!  ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue.  https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodcast  -------------------...

In the second week of Mini-Mini Month, Jackson and Jacob discuss a charming, poetic play by Tasha Gordon-Solomon. Coffee Break is about a friendship... and more than a friendship. Listen in! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue.  https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodcast  -----------...

Themed Month has arrived!  This season, Jackson and Jacob are spending four episodes talking about "mini-mini" plays... plays that run about 10-minutes. First up is one of the first pieces of the theatre J&J ever worked on together: Cover by Jeffrey Sweet.  Listen in!  ------------------------------ Check out these other voices discussing the play:  One of the early reviews from 1970: https://...

This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob discuss what Lorraine Hansberry called her most important play -- even though she didn't live to see it produced. Listen in as J&J talk Les Blancs.  ------------------------------ Check out these other voices discussing the play:  One of the early reviews from 1970: https://www.nytimes.com/1970/11/29/archives/a-black-critic-on-les-blancs-an-incredibly-...

Keyonna and her brother Samuel are struggling to keep their small apartment in DC -- the threat of eviction is ever present. Their mother, battling alcoholism, is more a hinderance than a help. To escape this daily reality, Keyonna meets "All the Natalie Portmans"... find out what that means as Jacob and Jackson discuss CA Johnson's play!  ------------------------------ Please consider supporting...

This week, No Script hosts Jackson and Jacob discuss Martyna Majok's inventive, moving piece of theatre Sanctuary City. A reflection on citizenship, trust, and home, Sanctuary City is a brilliant playwright at her finest. Listen in! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue.  https://ww...

Jackson and Jacob discuss Dipika Guha's scathing, hilarious satire of corporate authenticity: Yoga Play. Listen in! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue.  https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodcast  ----------------------------- We want to keep the conversation going! Have you read th...

This week, Jackson and Jacob discuss a wild farce set in the most unlikely place: the White House. Selina Fillinger's play POTUS Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive is silly, acerbic, unrelenting, and absolutely hilarious. Listen in!   ----------------------------- Check out these other conversations on the play:  The New York Times (Amanda Hess): https://www.ny...

No Script returns for Season 12! In their first episode back, Jackson and Jacob discuss the Pulitzer Prize-winning play English by Sanaz Toossi. Tune in for their conversation about the plays brilliant mastery of the fundamentals.  ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue.  https://www...

Merry Christmas from No Script! Surely the best thing to talk about on Christmas is... death and depression? Well, anyway. For the last episode of Season 11, Jackson and Jacob discuss Young Jean Lee's play We're Gonna Die -- an avante garde reflection on suffering with monologues and pop music. Listen in!  ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/mo...

Jacob is joined by special guest Corrie Hayes this week to discuss Lauren Yee's play In a Word. Corrie played the leading role in the a production at Northern Illinois University where she is an MFA acting candidate. Listen in! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue.  https://www.pat...

This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob discuss Jocelyn Bioh's adaption of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor. The piece is a celebratory comedy set in contemporary Harlem, which comes directly out of the pandemic. Listen in!  ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue.  https://www....

This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob discuss Brian Friel's masterpiece Translations. The play captures a troubling moment in history, using the incredible complexity of language as its backbone. And it contains a truly gorgeous love scene. Listen in!  ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast c...

How could Mistletoe Month end with anything except Irving Berlin's White Christmas? Jackson and Jacob discuss this holiday-classic-film-turned-stage-musical in the final episode of Season 11's themed month. ------------------------------ Get Magic Mind for yourself with our discount code:  https://www.magicmind.com/noscript Code: NOSCRIPT20 ------------------------------ Please consider supporting...

Jackson and Jacob discuss one of the most well known holiday plays of all time: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson. This holiday classic warms hearts and presents real issues of discrimination in insular communities.... even while it has some outdated social elements. Listen in!   ------------------------------ Get Magic Mind for yourself with our discount code:  https://www.magic...

Jackson and Jacob discuss one of the most well known holiday plays of all time: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson. This holiday classic warms hearts and presents real issues of discrimination in insular communities.... even while it has some outdated social elements. Listen in!   ------------------------------ Get Magic Mind for yourself with our discount code:  https://www.magic...

THEMED MONTH HAS ARRIVED!  In the first episode of "Mistletoe Month," Jackson and Jacob discuss a Christmastime classic: Inspecting Carol by Daniel J. Sullivan. Listen in! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue.  https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodcast  -----------------------------...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has become one of America's best know, most lauded playwrights. His plays challenge the status quo -- none more so than "An Octoroon." Written as an adaption of an old American melodrama, "An Octoroon" is wild, shocking, and surprisingly transplants methods of performance from centuries ago. Listen in!  ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon....

In this special episode of No Script, Jackson and Jacob record IN PERSON at a campground in Utah! Their discussion on "Hadestown" by Anaïs Mitchell has a unique vibe and plenty of noisy neighbors. Listen in as Jackson and Jacob discuss how Mitchell draws parallels between Hades/Persephone and Orpheus/Eurydice.  ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as...

This week on No Script, J&J discuss a real classic: Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias. A brilliant combination of humor and levity, the play has become a mainstay on stages of all types. Listen in! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue.  https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodcast  -...

Matthew Lopez's play The Legend of Georgia McBride is a study in performance. It follows an Elvis impersonator who becomes a celebrated drag queen, and uses celebratory drag performance throughout to do so. Listen in as Jackson and Jacob talk about this romp of a play.  ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Sc...

Lucy Kirkwood's The Children is about a trio of friends retired from work as nuclear engineers. When the plant they designed fails and pollutes their community, questions of generational responsibility arise. Listen in!   ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue.  https://www.patreon.c...