No Script: The Podcast

This episode, Jackson and Jacob discuss playwright Lloyd Suh's two-hander "The Heart Sellers." The play is a hilarious strangers-turned-friends story set amidst the political and social turmoil of the Nixon administration and the cheery loneliness of the holidays.  ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script...

Katori Hall's Pulitzer Prize-winning play kicks of Season 13 of No Script. Join Jackson and Jacob as they discuss all the wild shenanigans and poignant moments that make up this moving celebration of a script. 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...

Jackson and Jacob discuss the PLAY ON! translation of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. This black comedy asks deep questions about power and human sexuality, even while it pokes fun at institutions and officials. Listen in!  Learn more about Play On! here: https://playonshakespeare.org/ ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help...

Jackson is joined by special guest Phil Quinn to discuss a musical by famed Broadway and film composer Stephen Schwartz: Children of Eden. 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 c...

This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob dive into the tumultuous disagreements that frame one self-defense workshop. Liliana Padilla's How to Defend Yourself won the Yale Prize for Drama.   ------------------------------ Check out these other conversations on How to Defend Yourself:  Liliana Padilla at Victory Gardens Theatre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43cdBYwpoqM New York Living: https://...

This week, No Script explores the moving, imaginative musical by Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori: Caroline, or Change! Talking washing machines, apocalyptic buses, and singing moons feature prominently in this through-composed character study.  ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue....

Jackson and Jacob do Christmas in springtime! Listen in as the boys discuss the legendary Langston Hughes' gospel song play Black Nativity.  ------------------------------ Check out these other conversations on Black Nativity:  Seattle Channel, with Director Jackie Moscou: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wod7f1f0TcI The legendary Elma Lewis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0SUtySiO2Y Baylor Unive...

Who owns the stories of our lives? If every memory is necessarily a flawed, singular perspective, how can we trust the reliability of memoirs and autobiographies? Jackson and Jacob discuss these issues, which are explored in Pulitzer Prize nominated play Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz. Listen in!   ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/mo...

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...