Theatrical Shenanigans

Hello there and welcome to our 8th episode in this Festive Mini Shenanigans series as we countdown to Christmas Eve with a different play every day.   Our eighth playwright of this series is Connie Dinkler (https://newplayexchange.org/users/42212/connie-dinkler & https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12394501/) who is making her debut on Theatrical Shenanigans with her play "Holiday Help" ( https://newp...

Hello there and welcome to our 7th episode in this Festive Mini Shenanigans series as we countdown to Christmas Eve with a different play every day.   Our seventh playwright of this series is Kathleen Maule Holen ( https://newplayexchange.org/users/77724/kathleen-maule-holen ) who is making her debut on Theatrical Shenanigans with her play "Santa Afterhours" ( https://newplayexchange.org/script/32...

Hello there and welcome to our 6th episode in this Festive Mini Shenanigans series as we countdown to Christmas Eve with a different play every day.   Our sixth playwright of this series is Pamela Morgan (https://newplayexchange.org/users/57532/pamela-morgan & https://pamelamorganwrites.com/ ) who has joined us twice on Theatrical Shenanigans before, once as a panellist on The Panel Presents (...

Hello there and welcome to our half way point of this Festive Mini Shenanigans series as we countdown to Christmas Eve with a different play every day.   Our fifth playwright of this series is James Kelsey Nelson (https://www.jameskelseynelson.com/ & https://newplayexchange.org/users/88410/james-kelsey-nelson ) from Chicago. He’s a director and playwright who’s full length plays have been prod...

Hello there and welcome to our 4th episode in this Festive Mini Shenanigans series as we countdown to Christmas Eve with a different play every day.   Our fourth playwright of this series is Lisa Holzman Marciano ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-holzman-marciano-bba9b527/ ), a resident playwright for Santa Barbara City College’s Continuing Education theater courses. Her one-acts have been finali...

Hello there and welcome to our 3rd episode in this Festive Mini Shenanigans series as we countdown to Christmas Eve with a different play every day. Our third playwright of this series is Steve Korbar ( https://doollee.com/PlaywrightsK/korbar-steven.php ), a playwright who’s had full length and one act plays produced in the USA, Canada, The UK and Australia. He’s also had three short plays publish...

Hello there and welcome to our 2nd episode in this Festive Mini Shenanigans series as we countdown to Christmas Eve with a different play every day. Our second playwright for this series is Toby Inoue (https://newplayexchange.org/users/85239/toby-inoue & https://wabi-sa.com/ ), a playwright from Evanston, Illinois who writes about how the glass is half empty and half full.  She’s had a staged...

Hello there and welcome to a shiny new series of Mini Shenanigans. In this series we'll be bringing you a festive play every single day as we countdown to Christmas Eve. Our first playwright featured in this series is the wonderful Robert J. LeBlanc (https://newplayexchange.org/users/37762/robert-j-leblanc & https://www.dramatistsguild.com/members/robertleblanc ). Bob has featured on Theatrica...

Hello and welcome to our final episode of this 5th season of Theatrical Shenanigans. We hope you've enjoyed the episodes you've heard this season and if so do not hesitate to let us know with a review on Facebook or a rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Our final play for this season is "On the Zephyr" by Vicki Riba Koestler (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16376638/ & https://creators.spotify.co...

Hello there and welcome to Episode 9 of Season 5 of Theatrical Shenanigans and the first half of our weekend double bill to end this series. Today’s play is “A Line of Stitches” ( https://newplayexchange.org/script/2037489/a-line-of-stitches ) comes to us from David Bareford ( https://newplayexchange.org/users/69652/david-bareford & https://www.barefordplays.com/), a playwright, theatrical vio...

Hello and welcome once again to another episodes in this 5th Season of Theatrical as we move towards the end of the season. Fear not though we still have more plays for you to listen to and guests for me to chat to, including the ones we have today. Our play for today is entitled "Not Your Usual Princess" ( https://newplayexchange.org/script/3222420/not-your-usual-princess ) and is written by M.K...

Hello and welcome to episode 7 in this 5th Season of Theatrical. Our play for today is entitled "And I Ate a Pear" (https://newplayexchange.org/script/3195986/and-i-ate-a-pear) and is written by Beth Harpaz (https://newplayexchange.org/users/76579/beth-harpaz). Beth recently quit her job to pursue playwriting after decades as a journalist for The Associated Press and other U.S. news outlets. She's...

Welcome back to Season 5 of Theatrical Shenanigans as we move past the half way point of the series! As always, we have a fabulous audio play for you to hear and another guest for me to chat to. Today's play is entitled "Here Be Dragons" ( https://newplayexchange.org/script/2021011/here-be-dragons ) and comes to us from Wendy Gough Soroka ( https://newplayexchange.org/users/7443/wendy-gough-soroka...

Hello there and welcome to our first ever Halloween Special here on Theatrical Shenanigans. For this episode I have with me three other wonderful playwrights with works that celebrate all things horror and spooky!   Our four plays and playwrights are:   1) "Trail of Blood" ( https://newplayexchange.org/script/2012105/trail-of-blood-an-audio-play ) by Evan Baughfman (https://newplayexchange.org/use...

Welcome back to our half way point episode of this fifth season of Theatrical Shenanigans! Today's play is entitled "Another Life" written by Southern California based writer, improv performer and actor Rob Kirby. Rob has a MFA in screenwriting and is the 2023 Online Improv World Champion. He describes his main goal is to entertain the audience in anyway possible to help provide an escape from lif...

Welcome back to our fourth episode of this fifth season of Theatrical Shenanigans!   Today's play is entitled "Stage Door Blues" (https://newplayexchange.org/script/2040773/stage-door-blues-17-minutes) and comes to us from Marc Harris (https://newplayexchange.org/users/73161/marc-harris & https://www.theatreplays.co.uk ), a playwright, poet, singer-songwriter and guitarist based in the UK, wit...

Welcome back to our third episode of this fifth season of Theatrical Shenanigans!   Today's play is entitled "Night Light" ( https://newplayexchange.org/script/2790001/night-light ) and comes to us from Donald Loftus (https://newplayexchange.org/users/19611/donald-loftus & https://donaldloftus.com/) a New York playwright, librettist, and lyricist whose work has been presented on stages across...

Welcome back to our second episode of this fifth season of Theatrical Shenanigans!   Today's play is entitled "Natural" ( https://newplayexchange.org/script/2023006/natural ) and comes to us from Dana Leslie Goldstein (https://newplayexchange.org/users/5406/dana-leslie-goldstein & https://danalesliegoldstein.com/ ) a playwright and Lyricist Dana Leslie Goldstein with numerous awards to her nam...

Welcome to a brand new shiny series of Theatrical Shenanigans! I hope you are looking forward to 10 more episodes with audio plays from playwrights right across the world and chats with lovely guests.   Today's play is entitled "Maid/Man" and comes to us from Rich Rubin (https://newplayexchange.org/users/5361/rich-rubin & https://www.richrubinplaywright.com/ ) a playwright with plays produced...

Hello there and welcome to the final episode of this series of Mini Shenanigans! If you have enjoyed this series then please give us a rating on any of our platforms (or on Facebook/Instagram): https://theatricalshenanigans.podbean.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/theatrical-shenanigans/id1706499105 https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/theatrical-shenanigans/id1706499105 https://open.sp...

Hello there and welcome to our penultimate episode of this series of Mini Shenanigans!   Our play this week is entitled "The Cleaning Lady's Corpse" and is written by Baltimore based playwright, composer and lyricist Rosmeary Frisino Toohey ( https://www.frisinotoohey.com/ ) who is a titan in the playwriting world! She's had word produced on 4 continents and in 45 states and has had more than 430...

Hello there and welcome, once again to Mini Shenanigans! We are down to our final three plays now but I hope you've enjoyed the ones you've heard so far and are looking forward to our last three.   Our play this week is entitled "Gods Sixth Month Appraisal" and is written by Staffordshire based playwright Ben Macnair (https://sheilanagigblog.com/ben-macnair/, https://arachnepress.com/authors-edito...

Hello there and welcome, once again to Mini Shenanigans, where we have another fabulous short play for you to enjoy.   Our play this week is entitled "Liars Anonymous" (https://newplayexchange.org/script/2032088/liars-anonymous) and is written by Ellen Abrams ( https://newplayexchange.org/users/13566/ellen-abrams )   Cast: Max - George Sapio (https://gsapio.wixsite.com/gsapio & https://gsapio....

Hello there and welcome, once again to Mini Shenanigans, where we have another fabulous short play for you to enjoy.   Our play this week is entitled "Park Benches" ( https://newplayexchange.org/script/2792014/park-benches ) and is written by Darrin J. Friedman (https://newplayexchange.org/users/76352/darrin-friedman & https://www.darrinwrites.com/ )   Cast: David - Darrin Ingram ( https://www...

Welcome, once again to another episode of Mini Shenanigans where we bring you another short play to listen to. This weeks play comes from Manchester based playwright Lucy singer who is student and a writer with a preference for dark comedy stories that test the limits of realism. She's also excited to be a part of the series so  here's hoping we do her play justice. Lucy's play is entitled "My Wor...