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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...

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...