Playing On Air: Short Audio Plays

In Open Arms by Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros ,  an impending 50th birthday party sets off calamity over coffee and Kindles for a couple.  Open Arms  is directed by Tony Award winner John Rando and features Bill Irwin ( Old Hats ,  Interstellar ) and Julie White ( Sylvia at MTC). Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation between our Artistic Director, Claudia Catania, the playwright, dire...

In The Strangest Kind of Romance  by Tennessee Williams, a man's love for his feline companion confounds everyone around him. Featuring Matthew Cowles  ("All My Children"),  Adam Driver  ( Star Wars Episode VII , "Girls"),  Michael Stuhlbarg  ("Boardwalk Empire," A Serious Man ),  Kathleen Turner  ( Peggy Sue Got Married, The Virgin Suicides ), Jack Wetherall and Ellen Barber. Stay tuned after the...

In Acorn by David Graziano , a clothesline, acorns, and laundry add up to romance in Brooklyn. Featuring  Bobby Moreno  and Megan Tusing  ( Year Of The Rooster at EST), directed by John Giampietro . Recorded at BRIC Media Arts in Brooklyn. Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation between our Artistic Director, Claudia Catania, and the cast. Playing on Air is a public radio show and podc...

In MILTON BRADLEY, a flummoxed Rabbi has to eulogize a mother whose son has only terrible things to say about her. MILTON BRADLEY by  Peter Sagal  (Host of NPR's Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me! ) features  Bob Balaban  ( The Grand Budapest Hotel , Gosford Park ) and  Michael Stuhlbarg  ("Boardwalk Empire", Seven Psychopaths ).   Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation between our Artistic Di...

The Blizzard,  a mystery thriller, features Jesse Eisenberg as a snowed-in screenwriter facing unexpected guests. Written by David Ives and directed Tony Award winner John Rando, it features Jesse Eisenberg ( The Social Network, The Spoils ), Alfredo Narciso, Heidi Schreck and Sarah Sokolovic. Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation between our Artistic Director, Claudia Catania, and t...

In CHRISTMAS BREAKS by Patrick Gabridge, a young man surprises his girlfriend with some curve ball gifts. Featuring Steven Boyer ( Hand to God ) ,  Zach Appelman ("Sleepy Hollow", Julie Taymor's  A Midsummer Night's Dream) and Halley Feiffer. Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation between our Artistic Director, Claudia Catania and the cast. Playing on Air is a public radio show and po...

In The Miracle of Chanukah by  Sheri Wilner , a holiday guest's personal miracle throws a family for a loop. Featuring   Zach Appelman , Peter Friedman , Judy Gold (Emmy Award), Marcia Jean Kurtz and Lisa Joyce . Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation with the playwright and cast. Playing on Air is a public radio show and podcast featuring great American short plays with great America...

Tony Award winner  Tonya Pinkins  plays a VA hospital waiting room clerk coping with a World War II veteran's short fuse and an Iraq veteran's eight year old Latina daughter. Recorded live at BRIC Arts Media House in downtown Brooklyn, FORWARD OBSERVER features Tonya Pinkins (Tony winner for Caroline or Change), David Margulies and Kyndra Sanchez; directed by Anne Kauffman . Playing on Air is a pu...

In David Ives' short play THE PHILADELPHIA, ordering a sandwich is a challenge of epic proportions – let alone a beer. It features  Carson Elrod ,  Jenn Harris , and  Matthew Saldivar , directed by Tony Award winner John Rando. Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation with David Ives, John Rando and the cast.   Playing on Air is a public radio show and podcast featuring great American s...

WAKING UP, a short play by  Cori Thomas , juxtaposes an American urbanite and an African villager's triumph over breast cancer. Featuring  Lynnette R. Freeman  and  Amy Staats .  Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation between our Artistic Director, Claudia Catania and Cori Thomas. Playing on Air is a public radio show and podcast featuring great American short plays with great America...

In this week's podcast, a short play by Frank Gilroy in which a scrappy GI, gleefully recalls how he went from almost flunking high school to the trenches of WWII to Dartmouth. GETTING IN written by Pulitzer and Tony Award winner, Frank Gilroy, features David Beach, Kim Bendheim, Matthew Cowles, Caroline Gilroy, Michael Godere, Carter Hudson, Lillian Laserson, Thomas Lyons, David Margulies, Fiana...

In this week's podcast, a short play by Jesse Eisenberg in which a young man displays his tenuous hold on reality when he co-opts the national tragedy of September 11th into a self-serving anxiety narrative. A LITTLE PART OF ALL OF US features  Jesse Eisenberg  ( The Spoils ,  The Social Network , Zombieland ) and  Justin Bartha  ( The Hangover , National Treasure ). Playing on Air is a public rad...

In this week's podcast, a short play by Arlene Hutton: On the cusp of World War II, two young strangers meet on a train and find out they may know each other better than they know themselves. LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC features  Mamie Gummer  ("The Good Wife," "Emily Owens MD," "The Big C") and  Gregg Mozgala . Directed by John Rando.   Playing on Air is a public radio show and podcast featuring great A...

In this week's podcast, a short play by Lynn Nottage in which a woman's words proove cosmically powerful. POOF! by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage (Ruined, Intimate Apparel, By The Way Meet Vera Stark) features multiple Tony winner Audra McDonald (Porgy and Bess, 110 In The Shade, A Raisin In The Sun, Ragtime), Tony winner Tonya Pinkins (Caroline or Change, Jelly's Last Jam) and Keith Randolph...

In this week's podcast, a short play by David Lindsay-Abaire in which recovering addicts (Rosie Perez, John Leguizamo) have their Saturday night card game rudely interrupted by Bobby Cannavale, who plays good cop/bad cop all by himself.  Crazy Eights by David Lindsay-Abaire features Bobby Cannavale (Blue Jasmine, "Boardwalk Empire," The Motherf***er With The Hat) John Leguizamo (Ghetto Klown, Mamb...

A young woman of "ill repute" grabs a chance at marriage and a client shows up with some jaw dropping news. Featuring Academy Award winner Chris Cooper, Emmy winner Margo Martindale, and Liv Rooth. Directed by Tony winner Doug Hughes. Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation moderated by our Artistic Director, Claudia Catania, with Ara Watson and the entire cast. Playing on Air is a pub...

In this week's podcast, a short play from Christopher Durang   (Tony Award for  Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike ) in which a comfortable couple in Connecticut gets shaken up by a husband's high school fling's unexpected arrival. This radio drama features performances by Kate Jennings Grant  ( United 93 ,  Frost/Nixon ), Josh Hamilton  ( Frances Ha ,  J. Edgar ), Jane Krakowski  ("30 Rock") Aar...

A door-to-door evangelist is invited into the home of an older man on his last day of service in   Small Things ,  a short by Cary Pepper. With Bobby Steggert ( Big Fish ) and Jack Wetherall ("Queer as Folk").  Playing on Air is a public radio show and podcast featuring great American short plays with great American actors. W e distribute audio productions of contemporary short plays, translating...

Husband-wife team  Anne Meara  (1929-2015) and  Jerry Stiller  play former Yiddish theater stars who steal the show at a memorial service in the  The Burial Society , a comic play by Susan Sandler. Also featuring  George Morfogen . Followed by an interview with playwright Susan Sandler.  Playing on Air is a public radio show and podcast featuring great American short plays with great American acto...

On a flight to South Carolina, a young woman selects a new mother. A short play by Sheri Wilner, with Julie Halston, Michael Keck, Debra Monk and Merritt Wever. 

In this short play by Jacquelyn Reingold, a lovers' quarrel between two aging actors reveals the depth of their commitment. With Jack Davidson and Beth Dixon. Visit Playing on Air online at playingonair.org, @playingonair and facebook.com/playingonair. 

In this short play by David Auburn, Pulitzer Prize winning author of PROOF, the daughter of a disgraced senator confronts the retired campaign strategist who dragged her family name through the dirt. With Rebecca Brooksher and David Rasche. Directed by David Auburn. Visting Playing on Air online at playingonair.org, facebook.com/playingonair and @playingonair on Twitter. 

In a play by "Law and Order: SVU" writer/producer and Tony Award winner, Warren Leight, three friends and basketball fans share two stadium seats and two decades of Knicks' getting trounced. With Geoffrey Cantor, Peter Jacobson ("HOUSE"), and Cezar Williams. Directed by Fred Berner. Followed by an interview with Berner, Cantor, Jacobson and Williams. Recorded live at BRIC Arts Media House, 12/1/20...

Sure Thing,  a short play by David Ives, with Carson Elrod and Liv Rooth. From Playing on Air, Great American Short Plays with Great American Actors. 

In this short play by John Patrick Shanley (Pulitzer for DOUBT, Oscar for MOONSTRUCK), a dying man is visited by an Irish sprite. Featuring Aidan Quinn and Geraldine Hughes.