Open-Door Playhouse

Send us Fan Mail In the late 1960s, Grace has become a teen mom at 16. Her daughter has been taken away from her, against her will. Her boyfriend, the little girl’s father, has been killed on the battlefield while serving in Vietnam. Now, Grace is determined to do whatever is necessary to get her daughter back. First, Grace will have a reckoning with her own mother. The playwright, Sandra Cruze, p...

Send us Fan Mail Ludlow has been overweight his entire life, from childhood through adulthood. He’s depressed about being fat, but his mom is about to give him an entirely new perspective on things. Yunyi Zhu directs Justice Davis and Zelda Kimbal. F.J. Hartland is the playwright. Based in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, he is the recipient of an M.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University. The prolific write...

Send us Fan Mail Support the show Founded by playwright and filmmaker Bernadette Armstrong, Open-Door Playhouse is a Theater Podcast- like the radio dramas of the 1940s and 1950s. The Playhouse launched on September 15, 2020. At the time, Open-Door Playhouse provided Playwrights, Actors and Directors a creative outlet during the shutdown. Since its inception. Open-Door Playhouse has presented Shor...

Send us Fan Mail Two priestesses are debating the beauty of Cleopatra outside her chambers. The discussion ends up being about far more than beauty as the older priestess tries to convince the younger one that sometimes beauty should stay in the eye of the beholder. This is a comedy about power that takes a few sharp jabs at history. Yuniy Zhu directs Goreti da Silva as Akila and Monique Gonsalves...

Send us Fan Mail A young sex researcher is conducting interviews with men and women forty years his senior finding many of their answers quite surprising and just a bit unnerving. Bernadette Armstrong directs Joyce Hananel as Mavis and Matthew Scott Montgomery as Alan. Rich Rubin is the playwright. Based in Portland, Oregon, he is a member of the Dramatists Guild and is the recipient of six playwr...

Send us Fan Mail Martine and Amy are actresses about to open in a Broadway play. Martine is assured. Amy, who lives in a shelter, is fragile. They are friends. The enemy of the title is Paul, a theatre critic with a razor-sharp pen dipped in acid. Are the actresses prepared to face their foe? Dennis Gersten directs a cast that includes Leah Jarvik, Whitton Frank, Peter Bonoff, and Matt Ritchey. Da...

Send us Fan Mail A white police captain, his white wife, and their two adopted Black teen children try to keep their family from being torn apart as their town and the nation become engulfed in protests in the immediate aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. Open-Door Playhouse continues to present plays in podcast form. Whitesville is a full-length, three-act play. Each act will be presented in...

Send us Fan Mail A white police captain, his white wife, and their two adopted Black teen children try to keep their family from being torn apart as their town and the nation become engulfed in protests in the immediate aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. Open-Door Playhouse continues to present plays in podcast form. Whitesville is a full-length, three-act play. Each act will be presented in...

Send us Fan Mail A white police captain, his white wife, and their two adopted Black teen children try to keep their family from being torn apart as their town and the nation become engulfed in protests in the immediate aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. Open-Door Playhouse continues to present plays in podcast form. Whitesville is a full-length, three-act play. Each act will be presented in...

Send us Fan Mail In 2014, Flint, Michigan changed the source of its water supply. This resulted in the contamination of its drinking and bathing water, causing a dozen fatalities and sickening dozens more. The changes in the water supply were motivated by the greed of a few people in power and by systemic racism: The city was 54% Black. (UN)Drinkable stars Barika Phillips Bell, JayCee Porter , and...

Send us Fan Mail Open-Door Playhouse continues to present short plays in podcast form. A theatre pro offers advice to young Will Shakespeare. Will’s Dramaturg stars Jeffrey S.S. Johnson and Andrew Elvis Miller. Kim Hlavac directs. Rich Rubin is the playwright. Based in Portland, Oregon, he is a member of the Dramatists Guild and is the recipient of six playwriting awards. His full-length plays inc...

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-...