Play On Words Podcast

*For the best audio experience, we recommend using headphones for tonight’s performance.* I Do? written by F.J. Hartland Directed by Soren DeNiz Sound Designed & Edited by Anna McAllen Featuring the voices of: Liam Gannon as Best Man Parker Stephens as Groom Sarah Elizabeth as Mother of the Groom Andy Coleman as Father of the Groom Michelle Gibson as Mother of the Bride Todd Ballenger as Fathe...

*For the best audio experience, we recommend using headphones for tonight’s performance.* This found-footage audio drama plays through lost tapes in which the narrator records her summer at an old estate manor. When her doctor and husband suggests she rest to cure her nervous depression, the room he picks for her has the ugliest yellow patterned wallpaper she's ever seen. But the more she stays se...

**For the best audio experience, we recommend using headphones for tonight’s performance.**  ATTENTION: Please be aware there is a loud gunshot sound effect in this performance. Listen at your own comfort.  Pirandello gives us a satirical meta dark comedy in “Six Characters in Search of an Author” where we meet a dysfunctional family of characters who interrupt a theater company’s rehearsal. The M...

**For the best audio experience, we recommend using headphones for tonight’s performance.**  Pirandello gives us a satirical meta dark comedy in “Six Characters in Search of an Author” where we meet a dysfunctional family of characters who interrupt a theater company’s rehearsal. The Manager assumes them to be amateur improvisers, but is intrigued by their story nonetheless.

**For the best audio experience, we recommend using headphones for tonight’s performance.** In “The Proposal” by Anton Chekov, Lomov makes a visit with the intention of proposing to his neighbor, Natalya. But as the conversation grows, they keep fighting over various superficial topics. All the while her father, Stepon Stepanovitch, tries to keep peace between them. Will the two work past their di...

**For the best audio experience, we recommend using headphones for tonight’s performance.** Written by Danielle J. Lang, The Choice was originally produced as part of the 2022 Pittsburgh New Works Festival. It shows a brief glimpse into the relationship of two people who want to be together but face obstacles and risk social scrutiny.

**For the best audio experience, we recommend using headphones during the performance.** “There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” - Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Food for Groundlings is partnering with Play on Words to create an immersive (and safe!) audio production of Hamlet! This isn't just a reading- the audio drama includes music, sound effec...

**For the best audio experience, we recommend using headphones during the performance.** “There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” - Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Food for Groundlings is partnering with Play on Words to create an immersive (and safe!) audio production of Hamlet! This isn't just a reading- the audio drama includes music, sound effec...

***For the best audio experience, we recommend using headphones during the performance.*** Enjoy this collection, written and read by LGBTQ+ voices!

***For the best audio experience, we recommend using headphones during the performance.*** Ray is a special young man who befriends a Space Snake, who takes him on a small tour of different planets. Upon meeting Rose, Ray is nicknamed “Little Prince” and they become fast friends. Through interactive songs, games, and activities, the “Little Prince” learns about the different folks who inhabit the...

***For the best audio experience, we recommend using headphones during the performance.*** F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Porcelain and Pink” is an upbeat one-act comedy from the 1922 short story collection Tales from the Jazz Age.  During an afternoon bath, Julie Marvis is caught in a case of mistaken identity when a young man starts a conversation through the bathroom window, unable to see who he is tal...

Soren de-Niz (Producer) discusses the process behind Couples, Companions, Conspirators with Leann Mullen (Dramaturg) and Ella Mizera (Director). Couples, Companions, Conspirators is a collection of scenes and sonnets from Shakespeare that showcase the variety of dynamic relationships he wrote. It features four performed sonnets and scenes from Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, Macbeth, and A Mids...

***For the best audio experience, we recommend using headphones during the performance.*** Couples, Companions, Conspirators is a collection of scenes and sonnets from Shakespeare that showcase the variety of dynamic relationships he wrote. It features four performed sonnets and scenes from Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Blake Pierson is the playwright behind the 1st place winning play of the Play On YOUR Words Playwriting Contest. Blake, director gabriel gryffyn, and producer Soren de-Niz, talk about Blake's winning play, The Cave of the Green Light, and the inspiration behind it. To listen to the final production of "The Cave of the Green Light," and to read the winning scripts of the Play On YOUR Words Playwrit...

***For the best audio experience, we recommend using headphones during the performance.*** The Cave of the Green Light by Blake Pierson is the 1st place winner of the Play On YOUR Words Playwriting Contest. After Dr. Balser and his surveying team of undergraduate students are reported missing in a cave, a rescue team is sent to find them in the unmapped territory. Through radio transmissions, we h...

***For the best audio experience, we recommend using headphones during the performance.*** May Old Acquaintance Be Forgot by Maeve Cunningham is the 2nd place winner of the Play On YOUR Words Playwriting Contest. It tells the story of a couple ringing in the new year while facing dark secrets from the past. To read the winning scripts of the Play On YOUR Words Playwriting Contest go to www.playonw...

***For the best audio experience, we recommend using headphones during the performance.*** The Perfect Family by Marcus Gorman is the 3rd place winner of the Play On YOUR Words Playwriting Contest. It depicts a nightmarish look at modern suburbia as a teenage girl desperately looks for an escape. To read the winning scripts of the Play On YOUR Words Playwriting Contest go to www.playonwordspodcast...

***For the best audio experience, we recommend using headphones during the performance.*** In No Exit, three damned souls, Garcin, Inez, and Estelle are brought to the same room in hell by a mysterious Valet. They had all expected medieval torture devices to punish them for eternity, but instead find a plain room furnished in Second Empire style.

***For the best audio experience, we recommend using headphones during the performance.*** Play On Words: A Theatrical Podcast is hosting the Duquesne University Red Masquers theater group in this production of The Pittsburgh Monologue Project! The Red Masquers performed this collection in March 2021, and have recorded with us to share their theatrical sound. Written by Robert Isenberg and Brad Ke...

***For the best audio experience, we recommend using headphones during the performance.*** Play On Words: A Theatrical Podcast is hosting the Duquesne University Red Masquers theater group in this production of The Pittsburgh Monologue Project! The Red Masquers performed this collection in March 2021, and have recorded with us to share their theatrical sound. Written by Robert Isenberg and Brad Ke...

***For the best audio experience, we recommend using headphones during the performance.*** Casting Light is a collection by Sue Murray consisting of skits that confront the many aspects of mental illnesses. Each of these mini plays features characters going through rough patches in their mental health that are heavily based in real experiences. Because of this, we ask listeners to be aware that th...

***For the best audio experience, we recommend using headphones during the performance.*** Casting Light is a collection by Sue Murray consisting of skits that confront the many aspects of mental illnesses. Each of these mini plays features characters going through rough patches in their mental health that are heavily based in real experiences. Because of this, we ask listeners to be aware that th...

***For the best audio experience, we recommend using headphones during the performance.*** Play On Words: A Theatrical Podcast is hosting the Duquesne University Red Masquers theater group in this production of The Pittsburgh Monologue Project! The Red Masquers performed this collection in March 2021, and have recorded with us to share their theatrical sound. Written by Robert Isenberg and Brad Ke...

***For the best audio experience, we recommend using headphones during the performance.*** Play On Words: A Theatrical Podcast is hosting the Duquesne University Red Masquers theater group in this production of The Pittsburgh Monologue Project! The Red Masquers performed this collection in March 2021, and have recorded with us to share their theatrical sound. Written by Robert Isenberg and Brad Ke...

***For the best audio experience, we recommend using headphones during the performance.*** Play On Words: A Theatrical Podcast is hosting the Duquesne University Red Masquers theater group in this production of The Pittsburgh Monologue Project! The Red Masquers performed this collection in March 2021, and have recorded with us to share their theatrical sound. Written by Robert Isenberg and Brad Ke...