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Send us Fan Mail OPEN-DOOR PLAYHOUSE CELEBRATES ITS 100 TH PODCAST WITH A NEW PLAY, Open-Door Playhouse continues to present short plays in podcast form. Its 100th podcast presents Amusing Willie. Wille, a British playwright, quickly learns that everybody is a critic as he tries to convince his three female muses that his new play about “star-crossed” lovers is terrific! The muses remind him of pa...

Send us Fan Mail Susan struggles with her mother's Alzheimer's, as they navigate the new chapter of life together, living in her childhood home. Barren Landscape was written by Steve Gold , and directed by Bernadette Armstrong , starring Ayla Rose Barreau as Susan and Rosemary Thomas as her mother, Susa. Do you like Krispy Kreme Doughnuts? Open-Door Playhouse is participating in the Kris...

Send us Fan Mail Quinn (they/them) spends their nights living in the past, reliving their younger years through dreams. As they reopen old wounds, they find the only way to heal is to come face to face with their younger self. Yesterday written by Morgan James, directed by Kim Hlavac starring Leah Jarvik as Younger Quinn and Emily Ellsworth as Older Quinn. Support the show Founded by playwright an...

Send us Fan Mail Donnie just wants to get into his car and go to work when, much to his surprise he's stopped by a smiling and cheery intruder in his garage: Blair, a government official, no less. What does this portend for Donnie? Garage Invasion, written by Rex MacGregor, directed by Bernadette Armstrong starring Natalie Venturi as Blair and Justice Davis as Donnie.                Support t...

Send us Fan Mail A recently hired Substitute teacher is surprised to find a loaded handgun in a desk drawer when she reports to school on her first day. Concerned, she makes a hurried call to the office and is informed by the office administrator that after a rash of mass school shootings in local schools the city council has passed a bill that will allow teachers to arm themselves to protect them...

Send us Fan Mail That Day Is Coming, Every Day Is Coming is a short play intended for audio-only formats. Two older gentlemen, longtime gamblers and friends, meet for their regular $100/$200 cribbage match. Over this routine card game, the men, never referred to by name until the play's conclusion, initially discuss benign concerns within their gambling circles but soon begin considering larg...

Send us Fan Mail (Hollywood, CA) On June 13, 2023, the classic American radio show gets a modern twist, as TV, Broadway and Rock starsjoin forces for the new musical: A FALLING STAR AT BUZZARD'S ROOST. Non-profit radio theatre company OPEN-DOOR PLAYHOUSE -- a 501c3 giving voice to new writers and actors -- proudly premieres this show, sponsored in part byShure Audio International and produced...

Send us Fan Mail (Hollywood, CA) On June 13, 2023, the classic American radio show gets a modern twist, as TV, Broadway and Rock stars join forces for the new musical: A FALLING STAR AT BUZZARD'S ROOST. Non-profit radio theatre company OPEN-DOOR PLAYHOUSE -- a 501c3 giving voice to new writers and actors -- proudly premieres this show, sponsored in part by Shure Audio International and produc...

Send us Fan Mail (Hollywood, CA) On June 13, 2023, the classic American radio show gets a modern twist, as TV, Broadway and Rock starsjoin forces for the new musical: A FALLING STAR AT BUZZARD'S ROOST. Non-profit radio theatre company OPEN-DOOR PLAYHOUSE -- a 501c3 giving voice to new writers and actors -- proudly premieres this show, sponsored in part byShure Audio International and produced...

Send us Fan Mail (Hollywood, CA) On June 13, 2023, the classic American radio show gets a modern twist, as TV, Broadway and Rock stars join forces for the new musical: A FALLING STAR AT BUZZARD'S ROOST. Non-profit radio theatre company OPEN-DOOR PLAYHOUSE -- a 501c3 giving voice to new writers and actors -- proudly premieres this show, sponsored in part by Shure Audio International and produc...

Send us Fan Mail In the short play How We Heal, Andrea is a 30-something woman who uses a chakra yoga meditation to tell the story of her past and how she's turned experiences of abuse over in her mind to heal. She addresses her parents and ex-boyfriends from childhood through young adulthood on her journey to realizing she was always okay, exactly as she was. Written by Amanda ReCupido and d...

Send us Fan Mail The Librarian, Mark Chester, is called to speak before the  Sunny Valley Middle School Board of the to discuss his recent purchases for the students. The Librarian storyline echoes recent news headlines across the country. The Librarian  written by Hoyt Hilsman, directed by Kim Hlavac,  and starring Dalia Vosylius as Board Chair and JD Cullum as Mark Chester.  Our plays are produc...

Send us Fan Mail About the short play Woman on the 97th Floor: There was an image, burned into the minds of some Americans on September 11th, when a man and a woman leapt out of an office window of one of the Twin Towers. They were holding hands. This is a fictionalized account of what may have happened, or what some people did that day, the moment before. It is a play about choice. Woman on the 9...

Send us Fan Mail In the short play Dress Blues, two young men, Christopher and Nicholas are partners in The Peak of Chic Boutique, a high-end clothing store on a fashionable street in Boston. A wealthy customer, Mrs. Simmons, wants to make a purchase, but her emotional distress makes things difficult. The middle-aged woman wants something that will make her look her absolute best, so that her husb...

Send us Fan Mail Coen's comedy/drama Flesh and Blood is set in a Jewish cemetery in Queens, N.Y.  It is pre-dawn. Three headstones have been marked with swastikas.  Shelia Krickstein appears and crosses to the desecrated grave of her mother.  She’s looking for the caretaker who called her with the news, but instead, encounters an older grieving woman in 50s attire and, later, a judgmental Rab...

Send us Fan Mail In the short play (con)fusion, Dan is a good man and Sadie is a lovely lady. Alas, they are both human and have fallen prey to the rituals and routines that eventually befall all those in relationships: they have stopped communicating with each other. They talk at each other, not to each other, repeating the to-do lists that occupy space in their minds. Now the bedroom, a sanctuar...

Send us Fan Mail In the new short play, The Visit, Susan, a young housewife is just getting back to her normal routine after suffering a miscarriage. While getting back into housekeeping duties she receives a surprise wellness check from a representative from the emergency clinic where she and her husband rush to on the night of her miscarriage.              At first, she is touched by the thought...

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 In the play, Six Italians, Seven Fishes , an Italian-American family is gathered at the home of Joe and Marie for Christmas Eve dinner prior to Midnight Mass. Dinner (the seven fishes, a family tradition) is on hold because Vinnie and his Polish wife Peony have not yet arrived. The hours drag by, and Vinnie and Peony are still missing. Has something happened to them? Are they all...

Send us Fan Mail Goat is disconsolate. There’s a Nativity Scene being mounted for public display at Christmastime. Goat has been shut out of it because there was no goat present at the time of the historical Nativity. Goat’s barnyard pal, Pig, has figured out a way for Goat to be the G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time) participant in the Christmas festivities this year. Can you guess what Pig has plan...

Send us Fan Mail Lee Franklin’s play Just Playin’   PART 1 focuses on a group of men at a rustic cottage in Maine celebrating the 25th Anniversary of their regular poker game. PART 2 The next day, their wives (in one case, an ex-wife) gather at the same cottage (after the guys have left) to play Mahjong. The Mahjong game is also marking its 25th Anniversary. Part One is directed by Dennis Gersten...

Send us Fan Mail Lee Franklin’s play Just Playin’ focuses on a group of men at a rustic cottage in Maine celebrating the 25th Anniversary of their regular poker game. The next day, their wives (in one case, an ex-wife) gather at the same cottage (after the guys have left) to play Mahjong. The Mahjong game is also marking its 25th Anniversary. The longevity of these activities suggests that the par...

Send us Fan Mail In the short play Just Another Day at the Zo o, we’re introduced to two characters, Cell Phone and Old School. They’re from different generations and different worlds. Meeting at a park bench, they begin to engage in conversation but perceive that the cultural gaps between them are formidable.  Can these two polarized figures possibly bond? The metaphors for the larger conversatio...

Send us Fan Mail   Penny Slots Part 3, Ladies Fly Home to Vero Beach. . Written and directed by Kim Hlavac .  Starring V ictoria Hoffman, Marla Cotovsky, Carole Goldman, Goreti da Silva, Amy Marcs, and Kim Hlavac .. The Three Penny Slots Ladies have arrived from Rome, mishap-free, in Miami from their first class all-expense paid Good Morning America Italian Riviera Cruise. After clearing customs,...

Send us Fan Mail Spell. Written by Barbara Blatner. Directed by Bernadette Armstrong . Starring Sue Gisser, Christine Uhebe and Whitton Frank . A piece in verse. In this sequel to The Tempest, Ariel and Caliban contemplate revenge on Prospero.  Celebrating Women in Theater is being presented by Open-Door Playhouse, a podcast created to introduce new plays, new writers, and a wealth of unknown tale...