Open-Door Playhouse

Send us Fan Mail It Comes with the Dinner Special. Written by Susan Bachner. Directed by Rachel Berney Needleman . Starring JayCee Porter, Zelda Kimble, and Sienna Tso Lisa and Jen are best friends. But are they, really? 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 talent. Founded by playwrigh...

Send us Fan Mail   Night in the Desert. Written by Virginia Linden. Directed by Shelley Curtis . Starring Kim Hlavac, Virginia Linden and Amy Marcs . Three women have an adventure camping in the wild. 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 talent. Founded by playwright and filmmaker Ber...

Send us Fan Mail Used. Written by Leslie Tall Manning. Directed by Joanne McGee-Lamb. Starring Sonja Alarr, Morgan Hill, Elizabeth Wells and Joanne McGee. Items in a thrift store wonder about their future fates.  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 talent. Founded by playwright and fi...

Send us Fan Mail   Moments. Written and directed by Bernadette Armstrong . Starring Goreti da Silva and Elaine Mello . A woman newly traumatized by a road rage incident calls her therapist.  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 talent. Founded by playwright and filmmaker Bernadette Arm...

Send us Fan Mail The Near-Death Laundry Chute Experience. Written by Patricia Motto . Directed by Miranda Stewart. Starring Joyce Hananel . A woman is confounded by a contraption.  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 talent. Founded by playwright and filmmaker Bernadette Armstrong, Op...

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 Written by Karen McKivitt. Directed by Rachel Berney Needleman . Starring Natalie Elefheriadis and Mae Aswell. A female attorney searching for a pay phone will find more than she expects. October 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 talent. Founded by playwright and f...

Send us Fan Mail Shakespeare’s Heroines at the Gynecologist. Written by Chriselle Almeida . Directed by Bernadette Armstrong . Starring Goreti da Silva, Gloria Tsai, Camille Ameen, Barika Phillips Bell and Chriselle Almeida. Ophelia, Juliet, Lady Macbeth and Desdemona meet Viola at the doctor’s office. Celebrating Women in Theater is being presented by Open-Door Playhouse, a podcast created to int...

Send us Fan Mail In the new play Breakable, Conner has flown out from distant California to visit his sister. Jennifer in a long-term care facility. She has short-term memory issues and is clearly in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Conner asserts his love for his sister and clearly feels guilty about having been so far away while his sister has descended into a need for more attention and...

Send us Fan Mail RAINBOW GIRLS DETECTIVE AGENCY STARTS JULY 27 AT OPEN-DOOR PLAYHOUSE Christmas time is approaching, and half-siblings Poppy and Faith, are the two young women called the Rainbow Girls. Despite their own romantic troubles, their main concern is for their vibrant, smart, pretty mom. Twice divorced, she still dreams wistfully about her first love, the man she calls The Poet. The Girl...

Send us Fan Mail RAINBOW GIRLS DETECTIVE AGENCY STARTS JULY 27 AT OPEN-DOOR PLAYHOUSE Christmas time is approaching, and half-siblings Poppy and Faith, are the two young women called the Rainbow Girls. Despite their own romantic troubles, their main concern is for their vibrant, smart, pretty mom. Twice divorced, she still dreams wistfully about her first love, the man she calls The Poet. The Girl...

Send us Fan Mail ANNIE AND FRANNIE GO TO A FUNERAL OPENS JULY 13 AT OPEN DOOR PLAYHOUSE In this short play, Annie and Frannie Go to a Funeral, just like the title says. The funeral is for Artie, Annie’s husband and her first love. The marriage was not always happy, particularly after the tragic death of their son. Annie is there to say goodbye. Frannie is there as Annie’s friend. But Annie and Fra...

Send us Fan Mail In the short play Escape from Cottage Woods, Macie, 94, is a longtime resident of a retirement community in a bucolic setting in North Carolina. Lily, her daughter, believes that Macie is being overmedicated into a compliant, zombified state by the establishment’s staff. Macie and Lily have some unresolved mother-daughter issues. This short play is being presented by Open-Door Pla...

Send us Fan Mail Calamity was formed in 2013 in Crest, Ca. with founding members Cathryn Beeks, Nisha Catron, and Marcia Claire along with Sierra West, Mary Grasso, and Kim Bishop. Over the years the band has featured Rhythm Rose Turner, Jules Whelpton, Kristen Cusato, Dana Ralston, and Catherine Barnes. The current lineup features Cathryn Beeks, Nisha Catron, Marcia Claire, Patric Petrie, and Jul...

Send us Fan Mail Calamity was formed in 2013 in Crest, Ca. with founding members Cathryn Beeks, Nisha Catron, and Marcia Claire along with Sierra West, Mary Grasso, and Kim Bishop. Over the years the band has featured Rhythm Rose Turner, Jules Whelpton, Kristen Cusato, Dana Ralston, and Catherine Barnes. The current lineup features Cathryn Beeks, Nisha Catron, Marcia Claire, Patric Petrie, and Jul...

Send us Fan Mail Open-Door Playhouse is proud to announce The End , an audio play starring Anne Cooper as The End, Joyce Hananel as The Woman; and written by Patricia Motto, and directed by Bernadette Armstrong .  Synopsis for The End: The odds are pretty good that what you most worry about won’t get you. But it’s dead certain something else will. Open-Door Playhouse is a podcast that supports new...

Send us Fan Mail Adagio , an audio play starring Daamen Krall as George Hadley , Camille Ameen as Melenda Dalcourt ; and written by Sabrina Rose Bivens, and directed by Bernadette Armstrong.   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...

Send us Fan Mail Open-Door Playhouse presents the audio play of Penny Slots. It is written and directed by Kim Hlavac. Listen to Penny Slots Part One Listen to Penny Slots Part Three The leading cast features Marla Cotovsky as Marie, Carole Goldman as Kay, and Goreti da Silva as Helen.  André Sogliuzzo in Act Two, Scene One as Harold the Homeless Man, in Act Two, Scene Two as The GMA Production As...

Send us Fan Mail Open-Door Playhouse presents the audio play of VOICES starring Bill Mendieta as Esteem, Saige Spinney as Anger, Heather Taylor as Love; and written by Jonathan Tschud y, and directed by Gary Lamb .  Synopsis for VOICE: A shy, small for his age, young boy struggles to fit into his first year of high school, leaving heavily on his inner voices of Love, Anger and Esteem. Jonathan Tsc...

Send us Fan Mail Open-Door Playhouse presents the audio play of Dolly and Josie Exit A Bar s tarring Gena Kay as Josie and Bonnie Bailey-Reed as Dolly, and Anonymo us as Bartender; written by Wendy Bryan Michaels , and directed by Bernadette Armstrong . Synopsis for Dolly and Josie Exit A Bar: A woman walks into the same bar she retreats to every night and encounters a strange woman never seen bef...

Send us Fan Mail Open-Door Playhouse presents the audio play of Corpse Pose starring Brian Graves as Andy, Rachel Bryant as Wendy,  Felicia Taylor E. as Brenda, Goreti da Silva as Taywana, Morgan Hill as Carla, and Joanne McGee as Siri; and written by Virginia Youngren , and directed by Joanne McGee. The play will be available online on March 9th, 2022 at Open-Door Playhouse. Virginia Youngren (Pl...

Send us Fan Mail Open-Door Playhouse presents the audio play of The Calling, a short comedy play starring Anne Cooper as CSR Rep, Rosemary Thomas as Lee; Noelle Evangelisti as First Voice, written by Greg Jones Ellis, and directed by Bernadette Armstrong. Synopsis for The Calling: Lee tries to “opt-out” of Catholicism but is trapped inside the ultimate phone hell. Greg Jones Ellis (Playwright) gra...

Send us Fan Mail Open-Door Playhouse is proud to present  My Coffee With Andy , an audio play starring Gary Lamb as Andy , and Dennis Gersten as Walter ; written by Steven Doloff, and directed by Dennis Gersten. My Coffee With Andy: Two old friends, Walter and Andy, meet in a coffee shop for their periodic coffee and catch up. A persistent problem that Walter has long had with Andy but Andy knows...

Send us Fan Mail Synopsis of Hard Times: Three women find themselves in close quarters after a wild a night out on the town. Open-Door Playhouse will present the audio play of Hard Times , a play starring Sue Gisser as “Rosie”; Ayla Rose Barreau as “Lisa” and Zelda Kimble as “Carol”; written by Chris McKerracher ; adapted for audio by John Hunter and David Hunter ; and directed by Fabiana Medici ....

Send us Fan Mail Open-Door Playhouse presents the audio play of The Woods, a play starring Matthew Scott Montgomery as Caleb, and Andrew Puente as Adrian; written by Matthew Scott Montgomery , and directed by Bernadette Armstrong. Synopsis for The Woods: Two old friends from high school reunite after years apart for a stroll on New Year’s E ve. Open-Door Playhouse is a podcast that supports new an...