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Send us Fan Mail Helios, the Greek Sun God torments his son-in-law, Jason, with blasts of sun rays into exposing the tragic events that led to his epic downfall as a legendary hero before an audience of ghosts from his past. Reluctantly, and with the aid of alcohol, he makes a promise to tell the whole truth of what happened to him, his wife Medea, and their children. Bernadette Armstrong directs...

Send us Fan Mail Open-Door Playhouse continues to present short plays in podcast form. Its upcoming play Anti-Soulmate will debut on January 3, 2024 online at http://opendoorplayhouse.org A man searching for his soulmate finally finds her. There’s just one problem. She doesn’t believe in soulmates. Miranda Stewart directs Elaine Mello and Peter Bonoff . Alyssa Ahle is the playwright. Her other pla...

Send us Fan Mail Jeff McKnight, a ruthless corporate executive, discovers that firing the employees of his recently acquired company is not so easy as their Christmas spirit is way more ‘real’ than even his grinch-heart can handle. Ann Noble is both playwright and director of Right Down Santa Claus Lane . Ann is an award-winning playwright/new media writer, actor, solo performer, director, arts ed...

Send us Fan Mail Open-Door Playhouse c ontinues to present short plays in podcast form. Its upcoming play Anxiety will debut on December 6, 2023 online at  http://opendoorplayhouse.org Tensions build when a manic-claustrophobic woman gets locked inside an office building bathroom, along with a male janitor late one night. Will they be rescued in time? Miranda Stewart directs Gloria Tsai and Michae...

Send us Fan Mail OPEN-DOOR PLAYHOUSE DEBUTS THE FINAL BATTLE ON NOVEMBER 30 AS PART OF ITS SALUTE TO VETERANS Open-Door Playhouse continues to present short plays in podcast form.  http://opendoorplayhouse.org The Johnson men are home for Thanksgiving. Louis is a Vietnam veteran. Paul, his son, is a Desert Storm veteran. Jared, Paul’s son, is currently in the Air Force, on leave after extended dep...

Send us Fan Mail Open-Door Playhouse continues to present short plays in podcast form. Its upcoming play Cairo will debut on November 28, 2023 online at  http://opendoorplayhouse.org Cairo is part of a collection of short plays with the umbrella title of Outside Paducah: The Wars at Home. Cairo (pronounced KAY-row) is the name of an Illinois town just across the state line from Paducah, Kentucky w...

Send us Fan Mail Kim Hlavac directs Michael David, Madelynn Fattibene, and Carole Goldman . Kim Hlavac is the playwright. The recipient of a BFA from f SUNY Purchase, she is also an actor. She has performed in plays in New York (including Much Ado About Nothing opposite Stanley Tucci, Waiting for Lefty directed by Howard da Silva, and Gertrude Stein’s Listen to Me) and on TV (including the daytime...

Send us Fan Mail Open-Door Playhouse continues to present short plays in podcast form. Its upcoming play Willy will debut on November 21, 2023 online at  http://opendoorplayhouse.org Suffering from PTSD, Willy continues to struggle in his day-to-day life, haunted by the psychological trauma he suffered while serving in Vietnam, and the subsequent divorce from the love of his life, and separation f...

Send us Fan Mail The Wars at Home: Our Ghost is part of a collection of short plays with the umbrella title of Outside Paducah: The Wars at Home. In Our Ghost , a young boy growing up in the home his family has occupied for generations in a small town in Illinois believes the house to be haunted by a ghost. Bernadette Armstrong directs. Matthew Scott Montgomery stars. J.A. Moad II is the playwrigh...

Send us Fan Mail Open-Door Playhouse continues to present short plays in podcast form. Its upcoming play Switchboard Soldiers will debut on November 14, 2023 online at http://opendoorplayhouse.org Before women could even vote, Miss Banker leads the first corps of women that help turn the tide of World War I. This is an interview with the first woman soldier Chief Grace Banker of the Signal Corps F...

Send us Fan Mail In 1965, a young man tries to avoid being sent to fight in Vietnam before President Johnson cancels the draft deferment for married men. Andy begs Doris to marry him before his time runs out. Bernadette Armstrong directs a cast that includes Allan Wasserman, Natalie Venturi, Peter Bonoff, Daamen Krall, David Purdham, Camille Ameen, Sue Gisser, JayCee Porter, and Gina Elaine. .Meli...

Send us Fan Mail Open-Door Playhouse continues to present short plays in podcast form. Its upcoming play We Ride at Dawn, or Whenever will debut on November 7, 2023 online at  http://opendoorplayhouse.org Three military men gather to confer about the timing of an upcoming battle. Dennis Gersten directs himself as the Sargent, Gary Lamb as the Captain, and James Calvert as the General. Kevin B is t...

Send us Fan Mail Rock & Roll Theater presents, HASHTAG #SHINE It On Written by: CHRISTINA VERONICA and STEPHEN WOZNIAK  Richard Malmos directs Aaron Lyons (Teddy), Felicia Taylor E. (Nancy Jean), Nathan Smythe (Uncle Ronnie), Victoria Rafael (Charity Chastain), and Tonoccus McClain (Mickey Diamond Boy) in HASHTAG #SHINE IT ON. Foley Artist:   Jeff Gardner Recording Engineer: Brian Showalter Mu...

Send us Fan Mail SHORTS (BUT SWEET) presents five ridiculous slice-of-life comedy sketches…if your life involves a hotline for writer’s block, childish boyfriends, movie weddings that go haywire, and randy old ladies. Rock and Roll Radio Theater presents  SHORTS (BUT SWEET) Starring: Richard Malmos directs Paul  Preston, Susan Huckle, Mischelle Massie, Amy Engelhardt, and Ramone Hamilton. The SAG-...

Send us Fan Mail Army recruit Carrie surprises her mother and sister when she arrives home on an emergency leave from her platoon, days before being shipped out to her new assignment. Emergency Leave!   is directed by Joanee McGee-Lamb and stars Sofia Bragar, Marta Portillo, Violeta Hernandez. Elaine Little is the playwright. She is a combat veteran who served as an interrogator in Afghanistan. Em...

Send us Fan Mail OvEn is an entertaining tale just in time for the Halloween season. Jenny and her best friend Lucy are selling cookies door to door far and wide in hopes of raising funds for Jenny’s college tuition. Their efforts take a bit of a turn when they land on the doorstep of Mrs. Zodiac, the widow of the Zodiac Killer, who’s pre-heating her oven just for them….Listen carefully, and don’t...

Send us Fan Mail Noreen is amazed that Wendy runs in the park. While Wendy stretches near her, Noreen starts up a conversation. She's sorry afterward. Kim Hlavac directs. directs. Noelle Evangelisti and Rhoda Pell star. Marj O’Neill-Butler is the playwright. She is the Florida Regional Rep for the Dramatists Guild and is the author of 59 produced plays, among them Conflict on a Bench, 0% Chan...

Send us Fan Mail OPEN-DOOR PLAYHOUSE DEBUTS REVELATIONS ON OCTOBER 25 AS PART OF ITS SECOND ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF WOMEN IN THEATRE Open-Door Playhouse continues to present short plays in podcast form. Its upcoming play Revelations will debut on October 25 ,2023 online at  http://opendoorplayhouse.org Eva, an aging woman, attends Confession a few weeks after her mother’s passing, to share and refle...

Send us Fan Mail A lawyer believes she will be happy once she achieves Partner status at her firm. She finds, to her chagrin, that this is not so, once she makes Partner. Sexism is only part of it. Bernadette Armstrong directs. Elaine Mello stars. Mona Deutsch Miller is the playwright. She is the President of the Association of Los Angeles Playwrights. Ten of her plays have been produced in the Lo...

Send us Fan Mail Mom is in declining health, and it will fall to one of three contentious adult sisters to decide who will assume the duties of family matriarch. Whom shall it be? Mimi Kmet is the playwright and directs Rhoda Pell, Anna T. Raner, and Suwon Weaver. The Matriarch is a selection in the Open-Door Playhouse Second Annual Celebration of Women in Theatre. Founded by playwright and filmma...

Send us Fan Mail This play is set during the coronavirus lockdown. Sara has been rendered tense by home confinement. She loves her husband, but sometimes his occasional insensitivity can drive her nuts. Bernadette Armstrong directs. Goreti da Silva stars. Mona Deutsch Miller is the playwright. She is the President of the Association of Los Angeles Playwrights. Ten of her plays have been produced i...

Send us Fan Mail It's 1536. Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, has been charged with capital crimes and is confined in a cell at the Tower of London. She finds herself, to her distaste, having a peasant as a cellmate and that's not all; To everyone's surprise, there's a dead Warder sharing the cell with them. What might the presence of this corpse portend for the cell's other...

Send us Fan Mail During the pandemic lockdown, an isolated career woman decides to freeze her eggs. She wants to plan for whatever contingency the future holds. Bernadette Armstrong directs. Kim Hlavac stars. Julia Stier is the playwright. A graduate of USC, her play Last Night in Town was produced in New York. She is a critic for Stage Raw and produced its podcast series, Stages of Our City. She...

Send us Fan Mail Open-Door Playhouse   continues to present short plays in podcast form. http://opendoorplayhouse.org Melissa declared her independence from her boyfriend and set off on her own to become a successful Hollywood agent. Now she wants get Michael back. When her plans to recover him meet with an unforeseen impediment, she knows just how to handle the situation. Miranda Stewart directs....

Send us Fan Mail This play is part of Open-Door Playhouse’s second annual Celebrating Women in Theatre. Red, a dynamite redhead is found lying in a pool of her own blood in a back alley. Senior Detective Harry and his Assistant Jack and a coroner all called are called to the scene to solve her murder: unknowingly each of them have a connection to the recently deceased. Bernadette Armstrong directs...