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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...

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...