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Playing On Air: Short Audio Plays

Playing On Air: Short Audio Plays

119 Episodes • By Playing on Air • playingonair.org
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 C ...more
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Playing On Air: Short Audio Plays
Playing On Air: Short Audio Plays
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BONNET by John Patrick Shanley
In BONNET, the incredibly talented John Patrick Shan... more
Aug 27 2023 19m
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SECOND SIGHT by David Ives
In SECOND SIGHT, a world premiere written and direct... more
Aug 20 2023 47m
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MARY MARY QUITE CONTRARY by Rehana Lew Mirza
It’s 1907 and a typhoid fever outbreak among New Yor... more
Aug 13 2023 33m
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TYPHOID MARY by Mike Lew
It’s 1915 and another typhoid fever outbreak, this o... more
Aug 13 2023 32m
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I DON'T KNOW by James McLindon
An old school drill sergeant under fire from his ver... more
Aug 6 2023 23m
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. ABERNATHY by Lloyd Suh
In Lloyd Suh’s HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. ABERNATHY, a shar... more
Jul 30 2023 22m
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THE ARMY DANCE by Cary Gitter
It's the summer of 1955, and a new U.S. Army private... more
Jul 23 2023 30m
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ECHO AND NARCISSUS by Amanda Quaid
Hear that? In ECHO AND NARCISSUS, playwright Amanda... more
Jul 16 2023 25m
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JFK TAXI by Aurin Squire
A jet-lagged Gen Z couple (Toney Goins and Kerry War... more
Jul 9 2023 41m
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EVENING AT ANAHEIM by James Stevenson (Summer 2022 Re-Release)
From brilliant New Yorker cartoonist, illustrator, a... more
Sep 4 2022 37m
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TENNESSEE by John Patrick Shanley (Summer 2022 Re-Release)
In Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner John Patrick... more
Aug 28 2022 23m
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BANSHEE by John Patrick Shanley (Summer 2022 Re-Release)
Anything can happen when you leave your window open ... more
Aug 21 2022 25m
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BITE THE HAND by Ara Watson (Summer Re-Release 2022)
In this week's summer re-release, we're doing a bit ... more
Aug 14 2022 31m
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YOU BELONG TO ME by Daniel Reitz (Summer 2022 Re-Release)
This week's summer re-release features Daniel Reitz'... more
Aug 7 2022 17m
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AT THE WATER'S EDGE, WET by Jonathan Bernstein (Summer 2022 Re-Release)
The curtain is up. The show is in progress. But for ... more
Jul 31 2022 20m
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RELATIVE STRANGERS by Sheri Wilner (Summer 2022 Re-Release)
This week's summer re-release features RELATIVE STRA... more
Jul 24 2022 32m
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OPEN ARMS by Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros (Summer 2022 Re-Release)
In Open Arms by Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros, an imp... more
Jul 17 2022 20m
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CELL by Cassandra Medley (Summer 2022 Re-Release)
Tony winner Tonya Pinkins (Jelly’s Last Jam, “Fear t... more
Jul 10 2022 52m
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GUN SHOW by David Auburn (Summer 2022 Re-Release)
From David Auburn (Pulitzer and Tony winner for PROO... more
Jul 3 2022 31m
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The MAN IN RED by Arian Moayed
In this holiday dazzler written, directed and produc... more
Dec 19 2021 52m
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JARED AND IVANKA’S PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCE AT MAURICE J. FELDMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL by Jonathan Spector
In the cool, otherworldly confines of a Zoom room, a... more
Dec 12 2021 29m
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JACOB AND AMAL by Dipika Guha
On the precipice of making a world changing medical ... more
Dec 5 2021 21m
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THE HUMAN EXPERIMENT by Mfoniso Udofia
Amal would like to spend the night hiding from, well... more
Nov 28 2021 31m
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THANKSGIVING FOR ONE by Hamish Linklater (Re-Release)
After his hit NUDITY RIDER, OBIE winner Hamish Linkl... more
Nov 21 2021 30m
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LOCKED AND LOADED. CAN I HELP YOU? by David Ives
The proud owner of a gun shop in a small American ci... more
Nov 14 2021 30m
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