Podcasts by Playing On Air: Short Audio Plays
Hear short, contemporary stage plays with first-rate casts. Playing on Air brings together award winners and emerging young talent, and each play is followed by a conversation with the playwrights and cast. Tune in for great American plays with great American actors, hosted and produced by Claudia Catania.
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SECOND SIGHT by David Ives from 2023-08-20T16:30
In SECOND SIGHT, a world premiere written and directed by renowned playwright David Ives, a retired historian’s (Danny Burstein) minor surgery ...
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MARY MARY QUITE CONTRARY by Rehana Lew Mirza from 2023-08-13T16:30
It’s 1907 and a typhoid fever outbreak among New York City’s elite families has led zealous sanitation engineer George Soper (Matt Park) to the home of the haughty Mr. ...
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TYPHOID MARY by Mike Lew from 2023-08-13T16:30
It’s 1915 and another typhoid fever outbreak, this one in a bustling hospital run by an officious Supervisor (Cindy Cheung), has once again led dogged sanitation engine...
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I DON'T KNOW by James McLindon from 2023-08-06T16:30
An old school drill sergeant under fire from his very modern and diverse new recruits desperately longs for simpler times.
Directed by John Giampietro, James McLi...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. ABERNATHY by Lloyd Suh from 2023-07-30T15:30
In Lloyd Suh’s HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. ABERNATHY, a shared story, formerly repressed, begins to bridge the racial and generational distance between a white American centenarian of t...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. ABERNATHY by Lloyd Suh from 2023-07-30T15:30
In Lloyd Suh’s HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. ABERNATHY, a shared story, formerly repressed, begins to bridge the racial and generational distance between a white American centenarian of t...
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THE ARMY DANCE by Cary Gitter from 2023-07-23T17:30
It's the summer of 1955, and a new U.S. Army private stationed far away from his New Jersey hometown may have met his match, a very modern Southern belle, at a USO-style dance.
ECHO AND NARCISSUS by Amanda Quaid from 2023-07-16T15:15
Hear that?
In ECHO AND NARCISSUS, playwright Amanda Quaid's newfangled take on an infamou...
JFK TAXI by Aurin Squire from 2023-07-09T16:00
A jet-lagged Gen Z couple (Toney Goins and Kerry Warren) decides to take an old school taxicab home to Brooklyn instead of an Uber, and their kooky cab...
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EVENING AT ANAHEIM by James Stevenson (Summer 2022 Re-Release) from 2022-09-04T11:00:04
From brilliant New Yorker cartoonist, illustrator, and children's book author James Stevenson comes this darkly h...
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TENNESSEE by John Patrick Shanley (Summer 2022 Re-Release) from 2022-08-28T11:00:51
In Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner John Patrick Shanley's TENNESSEE, a wannabe musician seeking an escape plan a...
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BANSHEE by John Patrick Shanley (Summer 2022 Re-Release) from 2022-08-21T11:00:57
Anything can happen when you leave your window open on a warm night. Tony, Oscar and Pulitzer Prize winner John Patrick Shanley (
BITE THE HAND by Ara Watson (Summer Re-Release 2022) from 2022-08-14T11:00:42
In this week's summer re-release, we're doing a bit of time travel. It’s a balmy night in the post-WWII Ozarks, and a young woman is leaving behind her life as a "lady of the evening" for an off...
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YOU BELONG TO ME by Daniel Reitz (Summer 2022 Re-Release) from 2022-08-07T11:15:26
This week's summer re-release features Daniel Reitz's ( Listen
AT THE WATER'S EDGE, WET by Jonathan Bernstein (Summer 2022 Re-Release) from 2022-07-31T11:10:58
The curtain is up. The show is in progress. But for a production stage manager and a sound and light board operator calling the cues behind the scenes, the night's most dazzling romance isn't pl...
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RELATIVE STRANGERS by Sheri Wilner (Summer 2022 Re-Release) from 2022-07-24T11:15:35
This week's summer re-release features RELATIVE STRANGERS, a bubbly comedic short from playwright Sheri Wilner (The Miracle of Chanukah, Cake Off Listen
OPEN ARMS by Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros (Summer 2022 Re-Release) from 2022-07-17T10:45:46
In Open Arms by Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros, an impending 50th birthday party sets off calamity over coffee...
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CELL by Cassandra Medley (Summer 2022 Re-Release) from 2022-07-10T10:45:06
Tony winner Tonya Pinkins (Jelly’s Last Jam, “Fear the Walking Dead,” PoA’s Poof!), Tony nominee Condola Rashad (Saint Joan, “Billions”), and Melanie Nicholls-King ("T...
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GUN SHOW by David Auburn (Summer 2022 Re-Release) from 2022-07-03T10:00
From David Auburn (Pulitzer and Tony winner for PROOF) comes a riveting, witty world-premiere commission for Playing on Air: GUN SHOW. In the aftershock of a n...
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The MAN IN RED by Arian Moayed from 2021-12-19T12:30
In this holiday dazzler written, directed and produced by Arian Moayed, Santa keeps a closer eye on the naughty and nice lists than we think, especially during "unprecedented times." Bu...
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JARED AND IVANKA’S PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCE AT MAURICE J. FELDMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL by Jonathan Spector from 2021-12-12T15:05
In the cool, otherworldly confines of a Zoom room, a controversial president's ethereal daughter and hands-on son-in-law surf the choppy waters of chiseled memories, personal responsibi...
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JACOB AND AMAL by Dipika Guha from 2021-12-05T09:00
On the precipice of making a world changing medical breakthrough, Amal visits an old lover and they contend with the uncertain future through the light of a shared, tumultuous past.
JACOB...
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THE HUMAN EXPERIMENT by Mfoniso Udofia from 2021-11-28T09:00
Amal would like to spend the night hiding from, well, everything. But when her bestie has other ideas - ideas that include a world renowned research university, high heels, and lowered expectati...
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THANKSGIVING FOR ONE by Hamish Linklater (Re-Release) from 2021-11-21T18:32:19
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LOCKED AND LOADED. CAN I HELP YOU? by David Ives from 2021-11-14T09:00
The proud owner of a gun shop in a small American city has a peculiar visitor one day - a celebrity of sorts who wants to buy a weapon but can't say exactly why.
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THE WAYFARER'S CODE by Brittany K. Allen from 2021-11-07T08:00
Airstreams, Winnebagos, Chevys, the blood brothers of RV circuit, take us from the shackles of modernity to the freedom of the road! Two couples who might not oth...
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TECH DEMONS by Sarah Gancher from 2021-10-31T16:19
An aspiring writer (Isaac Oliver) who dreams of learning the secrets of...
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THE BURIAL SOCIETY by Susan Sandler (Re-Release) from 2021-10-10T08:00
Husband-wife team Anne Meara 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...
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WAKING UP by Cori Thomas from 2021-10-03T08:00
Playing on Air presents Waking Up, an insightful short by Cori Thomas. It juxtaposes the experiences of an American urbanite’s and an ...
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A DEPARTURE by Andy Reynolds (Re-Release) from 2021-09-26T09:30
When a conservative father and his young gay son (stage legend Len Cariou and ”Ugly Betty’s” Michael Urie) reconnect in the most unlikely of places - an airport terminal - they find that love ca...
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PLAYING GOD by Alan Zweibel (Re-Release) from 2021-09-19T08:00
In PLAYING GOD, a divine comedy from SNL's Alan Zweibel (Playing on Air's HAPPY), a self-involved OB-GYN (Scott Adsit of 30 Rock) creates chaos for his pregnant patient (Emily Bergl). Over the o...
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THE DONOR by Avery Deutsch from 2021-06-27T08:30
Single mom Suzanne needs an actor for a discreet personal favor. It should be simple. But when she casts Mike, she grossly underestimates the lengths an out-of-work actor will go to to ...
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OWNER OCCUPY by Jonathan Spector from 2021-06-20T08:30
In Alvin and Mia’s neighborhood, property owners flip houses or parcel them out for AirBnBs. No one’s investing in the community. So they’re thrilled by the arrival of a new homeowner —...
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REVELATIONS by JuCoby Johnson from 2021-06-13T08:30
Mahalia, a Black trans woman, returns to her hometown of Minneapolis during the tumultuous summer of 2020. Against a backdrop of fire and protest, she and her father tentatively rekindl...
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CAMBERWELL HOUSE by Amelia Roper from 2021-06-06T08:30
A tale of old age, murder and gingernut biscuits.
CAMBERWELL HOUSE, a darkly comic one-woman play by Amelia Roper ("The Great"...
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DUMMY DIALOGUE by David Ives from 2021-05-30T08:30
Norman and Max may be dummies, but they’re no fools. Offstage, ventriloquist dummies are the same as anyone else — smack-talking their bosses, worrying about being behind the times — but beneath...
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REAL AMERICAN DINNER PARTY by Jen Silverman from 2021-05-23T08:30
Sometimes you lose your keys, sometimes you lose your temper, and sometimes you lose the most unexpected of things. When Marcy and her difficult boyfriend come fo...
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I THINK IT’S WORTH POINTING OUT THAT I’VE BEEN VERY SERIOUS THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE DISCUSSION OR, DAVE AND JULIA ARE STUCK IN A TREE by Mallory Jane Weiss from 2021-05-16T08:30
When runaway snow tubes send a dad and his grown daughter flying off a cliff, they’re left hanging on for dear life -- and testing the limits of a punchline. This...
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HOW MY GRANDPARENTS FELL IN LOVE by Cary Gitter (Re-Release) from 2021-02-28T09:30
“A gorgeous high note...a Jewish screwball romance… uproarious and beautifully cast, with tone-perfect direction by Colette Robert."
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NAPOLEON IN EXILE by Daniel Reitz (Re-Release) from 2021-02-21T09:30
“I felt I really had given birth ... rebirth ... to Napoleon.”
“So wait. A...
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SKIN by Naveen Bahar Choudhury (Re-Release) from 2021-02-14T09:30
Nobody comes to the campus health clinic looking for love. But as he waits for the nurse to call him in, Robby (Vandit Bhatt) finds himself drawn to Angie (Nitya ...
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THE FINAL INTERROGATION OF CEAUSESCU’S DOG by Warren Leight (Re-Release) from 2021-02-07T09:30
In the wake of the 1989 Romanian Revolution, a dictator’s beloved pet must answer for the crimes of his owner. What’s the cost of staying loyal to the hand that f...
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VERNON BAKER AND DANIEL INOUYE by Stephen Lang from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
First Lieutenant Vernon Baker and Captain Daniel Inouye (who later became the long-serving US Senator from Hawaii) both experienced racism in the armed forces during WWII and recount that as wel...
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THE OTHER WOMAN by David Ives from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In The Other Woman by David Ives, an insomniac writer experiences a different side of his wife after darkness falls. It features Laila Robins ("Homeland"; Planes, Trains & ...
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DAMAGE CONTROL by David Auburn from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the comic Damage Control, a political operative has a public relations nightmare on his hands as he preps a scandal-plagued politician to meet the press. Damage Control by P...
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YOU BELONG TO ME by Daniel Reitz from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In You Belong To Me by Daniel Reitz, two old friends from graduate school meet in a subway car 18 years later under vastly different circumstances. Featuring Amy Ryan (Oscar nomination ...
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CHRISTMAS BREAKS by Patrick Gabridge (Rerelease) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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", ...
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THE MIRACLE OF CHANUKAH by Sheri Wilner (Re-release) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In The Miracle of Chanukah by Sheri Wilner, a holiday guest’s personal miracle...
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THE FINAL INTERROGATION OF CEAUSESCU'S DOG by Warren Leight from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A deposed dictator’s beloved pet answers to the disenfranchised population of Romania in The Final Interrogation of Ceausescu’s Dog by Warren Leight. Featuring Ed Asner (UP, "T...
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THE PRESS CONFERENCE by Jessica Dickey from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In The Press Conference by Jessica Dickey, Inner longing and outer reality come to a hilarious head in the form of a chaotic Sheriff's press conference in small town America. Featuring ...
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I'M WITH YA, DUKE by Herb Gardner from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In I'M WITH YA, DUKE, by Oscar and Tony winner Herb Gardner (A Thousand Clowns, I'm Not Rappaport), Jerry Stiller plays a fruit vendor dreaming of the good old days whe...
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CLOSING COSTS by Arlene Hutton from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In Closing Costs by Arlene Hutton, a real estate broker hits her threshold when a client reveals her listing is the 396th co-op he’s seen. It features Amy Ryan (Gone, Baby, Gone; Listen
BANSHEE by John Patrick Shanley (Rerelease) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Tony, Oscar and Pulitzer Prize winner John Patrick Shanley (Doubt, Moonstruck, Outside Mullingar) writes and directs this short play about a banshee, a fantastical Irish spirit. In it, she pays ...
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Winter Mini Season Begins Next Sunday, February 7th! from 2021-01-31T09:30
Throughout February, Playing on Air returns with four episodes from our back catalog starting Sunday, February 7th.
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BIRD by Rachel Bonds from 2020-12-13T09:30
The year is 2030. On the snowy outskirts of DC, an underground musician (Tony winner Julie White) and her pragmatic teenage daughter (Erin Wilhelmi) battle the fo...
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THIRD GRADE by Dominique Morisseau from 2020-12-06T09:30
THIRD GRADE continues Playing on Air’s yearlong celebration of MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ winner Dominique Morisseau (The Detroit Project, Pipeline, Ain't Too Proud — The Life...
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THE THOMPSONS by Andrew Massey from 2020-11-29T09:30
Ah, the holiday season! The wine is flowing. In-laws are gossiping in the kitchen. And the Thompson family is indulging in their most bizarre Thanksgiving ritual:...
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THANKSGIVING FOR ONE by Hamish Linklater from 2020-11-22T09:30
After his hit Nudity Rider, OBIE winner Hamish Linklater returns for anothe...
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SCRAPS AND THINGS by Melis Aker from 2020-11-15T09:30
At a laundromat in Istanbul, a chatty seamstress (Carol Kane) and a guarded, young academic (Melis Aker) discover that they're linked, and haunted, by the myth of...
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HOW TO BE A WIDOW by Tori Keenan-Zelt from 2020-11-08T09:30
On a sweltering afternoon in 1864, two Civil War widows meet in a graveyard. Mirabelle is trying to paint a pineapple; Annaleigh needs to make sure that her husba...
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JEZELLE THE GAZELLE by Dominique Morisseau from 2020-10-25T08:30
JEZELLE THE GAZELLE continues Playing on Air’s yearlong celebration of MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’...
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THE COURTSHIP OF ANNA NICOLE SMITH by Lucas Hnath from 2020-10-18T08:30
“Back when I was a kid my mother took me to see a fortune teller for my 12th birthday…
She said that when...
ST. FRANCIS PREACHES TO THE BIRDS by David Ives (Re-Release) from 2020-08-23T08:30
In the middle of the desert, two vultures find their lunch interrupted by a man of faith. Now, they have a bone to pick with Saint Francis of Assisi.
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CELL by Cassandra Medley (Re-Release) from 2020-08-16T08:30
Tony winner Tonya Pinkins (Jelly’s Last Jam, “Fear the Walking Dead,” PoA’s Poof!), Tony nominee Condola Rashad (Saint Joan, “Billions”), and Melanie Nicholls-King ("T...
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ANNIVERSARY by Rachel Bonds (Re-Release) from 2020-08-09T08:30
“This doesn’t seem like your kind of place -
Why?
I dunno. You don’t look like you eat a lot of crappy deli meat.”
Through a haze of gin, medio...
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HAPPY by Alan Zweibel (Re-Release) from 2020-08-02T08:30
Never underestimate the persistence of a Mets fan.
In HAPPY by Alan Zweibel (“SNL,” 700 Sundays with Billy Crystal), a baseball fan shows up at the home of his childhood...
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Getting to Know You! from 2020-07-26T08:30
Hi Playing on Air listeners! We hope you're all safe and well. If you're willing to give us around 10 minutes of your time, we'd like to get to know you a bit better; it'll help us to program ep...
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G.O.A.T. by Ngozi Anyanwu from 2020-05-31T08:30
Jay, Bonita, and Row have gathered on the rooftop to burn the sage and drink the sacred Gatorade. To pray to the goddess Nike, and the ghosts of Billie Jean King ...
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IF YOU WIN by Emily Chadick Weiss from 2020-05-24T08:30
John Lithgow ("The Crown," "3rd Rock from the Sun," Hillary and Clinton) and Tony nominee Steven Boyer (Hand to God, PoA's An Upset) star in Emily Chadick Weiss's IF YOU WIN.
JUNE WEDDINGS by Barbara Hammond from 2020-05-17T08:30
One summer morning, in a cool and dusty bar, two strangers seek refuge from the past. RJ is a single father, on a break from his only son’s wedding. The mysteriou...
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HUMAN RESOURCES by Jason Gray Platt from 2020-05-10T08:30
Playing on Air is proud to present the winner of our 2019 James Stevenson Prize: Jason Gray Platt’s HUMAN RESOURCES.
CLEAN SLATE by Rajiv Joseph from 2020-05-03T08:30
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FAKE NEWS by Doug Wright from 2020-04-26T08:30
Content Warning: Violence
Anchors Bob Tunley and Fran Mercer are the iconic voices behind radio’s KLWP News Hour Listen
WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE by Patricia Cotter from 2020-04-19T08:30
There's a lot of money to be made at this funeral.
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NIGHT VISION by Dominique Morisseau from 2020-04-12T08:30
Content Warning: Violence
“I don’t want you hunting anyone. What if you become the prey...
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THE CLAM by Amanda Quaid from 2020-04-05T08:30
Tony Shalhoub and Kristine Nielsen star in Amanda Quaid’s THE CLAM, the Second Place winner of Pl...
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New Season Out Next Sunday, April 5! from 2020-03-29T08:30
Starting next Sunday and continuing every Sunday throughout April and May, we’ll be releasing a new short play. We f...
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An Exciting Announcement about Playing on Air! from 2020-02-23T17:00
We're announcing some exciting changes to Playing on Air's release calendar! Listen to find out more.
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NUDITY RIDER by Hamish Linklater (Re-Release) from 2020-02-09T09:30
We're re-releasing 5 of our most popular episodes for a 2020 fresh start!
(Psst: keep yo...
RULES OF COMEDY by Patricia Cotter (Re-Release) from 2020-02-02T09:30
We're re-releasing 5 of our most popular episodes for a 2020 fresh start!
(Psst: keep your eyes open for an exciting announcement, coming soon...)
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MISADVENTURE by Donald Margulies (Re-Release) from 2020-01-12T09:30
COUNTING IN SHA'AB by Emma Goldman-Sherman from 2019-12-22T09:30
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BEYOND GLORY: JOHN WILLIAM FINN by Stephen Lang from 2019-12-07T09:30
THE WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING VIOLET by Max Baker from 2019-11-24T09:30
I know I’m not your therapist. I’m your brother.
In THE WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING VIOLET by Max Baker, two brothers struggle with t...
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3:59 AM: A DRAG RACE FOR TWO ACTORS by Marco Ramirez from 2019-11-10T09:30
LA TRAVIATA by Lisa D'Amour from 2019-10-27T08:30
Debra Monk, Johanna Day, Katie Finneran, and Zach Appelman star in the world-premiere audio production of LA TRAVIATA by Lisa D’Amour (Pulitzer Prize finalist for Detroit<...
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2B OR NOT 2B by Jacquelyn Reingold from 2019-10-13T08:30
THERE YOU ARE by Leslie Ayvazian from 2019-09-22T08:30
A LITTLE PART OF ALL OF US by Jesse Eisenberg (Re-Release) from 2019-09-08T08:30
THE GOODNESS OF YOUR HEART by David Ives from 2019-08-25T08:30
What would you sacrifice for a lifelong pal? A kidney? Your safety? $900 -- for a very specific television?
From acclaimed wordsmith David Ives (Venus in Fur, PoA...
AT THE WATER'S EDGE, WET by Jonathan Bernstein (Re-Release) from 2019-08-11T08:30
The curtain is up. The show is in progress. But for two stage managers calling the cues behind the scenes, the night's most dazzling romance isn't playing out onstage. Written and directed by Jo...
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NUDITY RIDER by Hamish Linklater from 2019-07-28T08:30
MY HUSBAND by Paul Rudnick from 2019-07-14T08:30
NEW YORK STORY by Mike Reiss (Re-Release) from 2019-06-30T08:30
"It's not luck, it's fate. You, me - a couple of old showbiz pros. At the same place, at the same time..."
When a slick comedian (Ed Asner) and leading lady (Elizabeth Ashley), now both i...
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TWO DADS by David Auburn from 2019-06-16T08:30
HEDGEHOG YEARS by Lily Akerman from 2019-05-26T08:30
HATE BABY by Gracie Gardner from 2019-05-12T08:30
AN UPSET by David Auburn from 2019-04-28T08:30
Content advisory: this episode contains explicit language and sexual references.
When a cocky, jaded tennis star (David ...
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TWO CROWS APART by Max Baker from 2019-04-14T08:30
THE HELPERS by Cusi Cram from 2019-03-24T08:30
What do you do when your former therapist starts talking to a cat that isn't there?
When Nate meets his longtime psychiatrist in the park, he realizes that she may be losing it. With tend...
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MILTON BRADLEY by Peter Sagal (Re-Release) from 2019-03-10T08:30
BEYOND GLORY: CLARENCE SASSER by Stephen Lang from 2019-02-24T09:30
BEYOND GLORY "allows the voices of servicemen to be heard without the filter of the conventions of drama or the prerogatives of deadline-driven journalism" (NY Times).
Since 200...
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52ND TO BOWERY TO COBBLE HILL, IN BROOKLYN by Chiara Atik from 2019-02-10T09:30
POOF! by Lynn Nottage (Re-Release) from 2019-01-27T09:00
Loureen is at the end of her rope. And now, she's just turned her husband into a pile of ashes.
As Lynn Nottage's funny and wrenching POOF! opens, Loureen (Audra McDonald) has inadv...
CARRY THE ZERO by Christopher Sullivan from 2019-01-13T09:00
CARRY THE ZERO "gets the awkwardness of teenage hookup culture squeamishly right" (NY Times).
Mark and Nicole just had sex for the first time, and now they're facing th...
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THE BLIZZARD by David Ives (Bonus Release!) from 2019-01-06T09:00
RULES OF COMEDY by Patricia Cotter from 2018-12-23T09:00
Caroline can't find anything funny -- not her awkward love life, not her jaded standup coach Guy, and definitely not the punchlines she's been reading in 101 Dirty Jokes.
Origin...
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DRUNK CHRISTMAS by James McLindon from 2018-12-09T09:30
In James McLindon’s DRUNK CHRISTMAS, a teenage runaway and a swerving mom crash into each other on Christmas Eve; the night ahead is anything but silent. An unorthodox holiday parable, ...
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PLAYING GOD by Alan Zweibel from 2018-11-25T09:30
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I LOVE YOU by Lynn Rosen from 2018-11-11T09:00
Hear two of Broadway's greatest comedians tackle family drama. A sarcastic alcoholic man in recovery (Steven Boyer) tries to pro...
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THE MYSTERY AT TWICKNAM VICARAGE by David Ives from 2018-10-28T08:00
From the beloved narrator of the Harry Potter audiobooks and the playwright of Venus in Fur comes a wickedly clever whodunit.
In THE MYSTERY AT TW...
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THE MANDELA EFFECT by Max Baker from 2018-10-14T08:00
Are the Berenstain Bears, Nelson Mandela's death, and Darth Vader's most famous line evidence of a parallel universe?
During lunch with a friend, an actress works herself into a cosmic ti...
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WOKE by Leland Frankel from 2018-09-23T08:00
In Leland Frankel's modern comedy WOKE, an aspiring Pakistani-American rapper named Sunny crashes into Rebecca, a misguided activist, and the cop pursuing her across Queens. As Rebecca and Sunny...
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LAST NIGHT IN THE GARDEN I SAW YOU by John Patrick Shanley from 2018-09-09T08:30
"If I gave you my heart, that would be the knife."
With one hop of the fence, a star-crossed lover (Emmy nominee Rupert Friend) storms back into the life of the married woman (Golden Glob...
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CORA AND DAVE ARE GETTING OLDER by Julia Cho from 2018-08-26T08:30
Cora and Dave love Abby and Tim. Really. They're the kind of fabulous, beautiful people you love to be seen at dinner with. The friends you wake up...
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CRAZY EIGHTS by David Lindsay-Abaire (Re-Release) from 2018-08-12T08:30
HOW MY GRANDPARENTS FELL IN LOVE by Cary Gitter from 2018-07-29T08:30
In Cary Gitter’s romantic comedy HOW MY GRANDPARENTS FELL IN LOVE, it's 1933, and a young Jewish immigrant returns to his Polish hometown in search of a wife. He sets his sights on Chav...
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EVENING AT ANAHEIM by James Stevenson from 2018-07-15T08:30
From brilliant New Yorker cartoonist, illustrator, and children's book author James Stevenson comes th...
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A DEPARTURE by Andy Reynolds from 2018-06-24T08:30
When a conservative father and his young gay son (stage legend Len Cariou and ”Ugly Betty’s” Listen
CELL by Cassandra Medley from 2018-06-10T08:30
WILDWOOD PARK by Doug Wright from 2018-05-27T08:30
Watch your step. Look at those hardwood floors. Don’t lose your mind.
While touring a prospective buyer through a mansion for sale, a wary real-estate agent is ensnare...
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INSIDE VOICE by Kate Robin from 2018-05-13T08:30
Playground tantrums. Modern angst. Hungarian dance festivals. In Kate Robin's Inside Voice, dive into the secret lives of parents. Directed by Rebecca Taichman (Tony Award winner for Br...
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DEAR KENNETH BLAKE by Jacquelyn Reingold from 2018-04-29T08:30
When she hears his story on a daytime talk show, a Cambodian refugee (Jodi Long) start to exchange letters with a homeless man (Matthew Cowles). From Jacquelyn Reingold...
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THE PHILADELPHIA by David Ives (Rerelease) from 2018-04-15T08:30
From David Ives (Venus in Fur) comes a madcap satire of Brotherly Love and cosmic misunderstandings. Mark thought he woke up in New York City this morning, so why isn't there a cab, a c...
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GUN SHOW by David Auburn from 2018-03-24T10:00
From David Auburn (Pulitzer and Tony winner for PROOF) comes a riveting, witty world-premiere commission for Playing on Air: GUN SHOW. In the aftershock of a national tragedy, ...
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WINTER GAMES by Rachel Bonds from 2018-03-11T09:30
Winter Games: as stray cats prowl and dough rises, two sardonic twenty-somethings flirt with dreams of Olympic glory - or maybe just escape from the small town bakery where they work. P...
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MISADVENTURE by Donald Margulies from 2018-02-25T09:30
The police picked up teenage Ethan (Timothée Chalamet) for drunkenly wandering down the highway. Now, he's facing the real ...
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WANTING NORTH by Tanya Barfield from 2018-02-11T15:00
The 1840s South. In the thick plantation air, two enslaved sisters spin a poetry of escape. Today’s the day: Field Girl is making her run for freedom. Inspired by oral histories of sla...
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HATE THE LOSER INSIDE by Jon Kern from 2018-01-28T09:30
In Jon Kern's short comedy Hate the Loser Inside, a college football coach is tackling a local television commercial and fumbling more than his team ever d...
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TENNESSEE by John Patrick Shanley from 2018-01-07T09:30
In Tennessee, a small town 20-year-old wannabe musician (Timothée Chalamet) seeks an escape plan from the town's resident psychic (Caitlin FitzGerald). Featuring Caitlin FitzGerald who...
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SURE THING by David Ives (Re-release) from 2017-12-24T09:30
A meet-cute in a coffee shop contains multitudes, in this entertaining, experimental short, now a classic, from David Ives (Venus in Fur). It is from his collection of shorts called IT'S ALL IN ...
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IF WE'RE USING A SURROGATE, HOW COME I'M THE ONE WITH MORNING SICKNESS? by Marco Pennette from 2017-12-10T09:00
Presents are wrapped, carols are playing - and the department store Santa is asking some awkward questions. In the comedy If We're Using A Surrogate, How Come I'm The One With Morning Sickne...
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NICK BACON by Stephen Lang from 2017-11-12T11:30
For Veterans Day, Memorial Day or any day, NICK BACON is a powerful tribute to military valor, written and performed by stage and screen star Stephen Lang (Colonel Quaritch in Avatar). In this e...
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HAPPY by Alan Zweibel from 2017-10-24T21:45:25
In Happy by Alan Zweibel (“SNL,” Curb Your Enthusiasm,” 700 Sundays with Billy Crystal) a baseball fan (Scott Adsit of “30 Rock” and “Veep”) makes a pilgrimag...
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WAKING UP by Cori Thomas (Rerelease) from 2017-10-08T08:30
In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness month, please listen to Waking Up, an insightful short by Cori Thomas. It juxtaposes the experiences of an American urbanite's and an African v...
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TASHA WALKS by Kim Merrill from 2017-09-24T08:30
In the comic TASHA WALKS by Kim Merrill, a young man (Steven Boyer, Tony nominee for Hand to God) returns dejected from his bomb of a vacation with his fiancee who has called t...
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GETTING IN by Frank Gilroy (Rerelease) from 2017-09-10T08:30
In the autobiographical GETTING IN by Pulitzer Prize and Tony winner Frank Gilroy (The Subject Was Roses), a scrappy GI, gleefully recalls how he went from truancy, almost flunking high school, the...
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AT THE WATER'S EDGE, WET by Jonathan Bernstein from 2017-08-20T08:30
The curtain is up. The play is in progress. We hear two stage managers. Calling the show. A man and a woman. At The Water’s Edge, Wet is written and directed by Jonathan Bernstein, whos...
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REPORT ON MOTHERHOOD by Beth Henley from 2017-08-06T08:30
For a grammar school assignment a grand-daughter interviews her great-grandma on motherhood. She gets more than she bargained for. Way more. The illustriou...
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BITE THE HAND by Ara Watson from 2017-07-23T08:30
A young woman ‘of ill repute' is grabbing a chance at marriage when a client shows up with some jaw-dropping news. Oscar-winner Chris Cooper, Emmy-winner Margo Martindale and Broadway's Liv Root...
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A BETROTHAL by Lanford Wilson from 2017-07-09T08:30
A BETROTHAL brings you into the cutthroat world of iris breeding, where delicacy meets domination. Lanford Wilson's classic brings us two competitors, two irises--and one ingenious chance to win...
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24 YEARS by Leslie Ayvazian from 2017-06-25T08:30
In 24 Years by Leslie Ayvazian (Nine Armenians), a couple celebrates their 24th anniversary. Champagne in hand, and huge cast on leg (from an overly enthusiastic socce...
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A MAN OF HIS TIME by Kate T. Billingsley from 2017-06-11T08:30
In A Man of His Time by Kate T. Billingsley, a descendant of Supreme Court Chief Justice Taney (who handed down the disastrous 1857 Dred Scott decision) invites a descendant of Dred Sco...
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HECTOR CAFFERATA by Stephen Lang from 2017-05-28T08:30
"As starkly moving as taps at dusk" says the Washington Post about Beyond Glory, a powerful tribute to military valor written and performed by stage and screen star Stephen Lang (Colonel Quaritc...
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GOODBYE, HOWARD by Romulus Linney from 2017-05-14T08:30
In Goodbye, Howard, a rich comedy by Romulus Linney, three North Carolinian sisters in a total tizzy about their esteemed 85-year-old kid brother's imminent death, avoid an embarrassmen...
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IT'S ALL GOOD by David Ives from 2017-04-23T08:30
In IT'S ALL GOOD, a short play by a master of the form, David Ives (Venus In Fur, All in the Timin...
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TWO JEWISH MEN IN THEIR SEVENTIES by Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros from 2017-04-09T08:30
In Two Jewish Men In Their Seventies, by pulitzer nominated playwright Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros, comedians Jerry Stiller ("Seinfeld", "The King of Queens") and Bob Dishy (Sly Fo...
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