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HOLY MOLY: Two short comedies by Alan Zweibel and David Ives
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Susie Essman of "Curb Your Enthusiasm"
Jim Dale and Susie Essman star in HOLY MOLY, two short comedies by Alan Zweibel and David Ives. In PLAYING GOD, a divine comedy from SNL's Alan Zw...

Bought by KZYX, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Connecticut Public (WNPR), Prairie Public, and KUNM


  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
Come In From The Cold: Three short plays by Rachel Bonds, Cary Gitter, and James McLindon
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Elizabeth Ashley
Featuring Tony winner Elizabeth Ashley, COME IN FROM THE COLD features a wintry trio of short plays about connection, lost and found. With wit, h...

Bought by WRKF, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KFCF FM, KUNM, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
I Don't Know by James McLindon
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Jay O. Sanders
In James McLindon’s I Don’t Know, an old school drill sergeant is faulted by his new recruits and desperately, hysterically longs for the time when...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 23:39
I Love You by Lynn Rosen
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Steven Boyer
Starring comic legend Bill Irwin, Tony Nominee Steven Boyer, Broadway stars Len Cariou and Michael Urie. In I LOVE YOU by Lynn Rosen, a struggling ...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 24:14
The Mandela Effect by Max Baker
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Geraldine Hughes
In The Mandela Effect, written and directed by Max Baker, an actress is convinced that the present is no longer in sync with the past and she has a...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:15
  • Purchases: 1
At The Water's Edge, Wet by Jonathan Bernstein
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Callie Thorne
Starring Jeremy Shamos and Callie Thorne, in the short-play At The Water’s Edge, Wet, a Production Stage Manager and his Sound and Light Board oper...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 20:18
Changing of the Guard: Two short plays by Max Baker and James McLindon
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Geraldine Hughes
CHANGING OF THE GUARD features two short comedies about getting outpaced by a world zooming way ahead. In The Mandela Effect, written and directed...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, KZYX, and WHRV


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Beyond Your Control: Two short plays by David Auburn and Mike Reiss
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Peter Gallagher
Ed Asner, Bobby Cannavale, Peter Gallagher, Elizabeth Ashley and others star in two shorts about fatherhood, and fathers who don’t always enjoy a s...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WCPN, WHRV, KUNM, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 6
Fifth Planet by David Auburn
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Amy Ryan
Amy Ryan stars in Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn’s Fifth Planet. A professional astronomer played by Amy Ryan (Birdman; Gone, Baby, Gone; “The ...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 39:50
Anniversary by Rachel Bonds
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Sarah Sokolovic
ANNIVERSARY by Rachel Bonds, a comic drama about a young, grieving woman who finds love again. Featuring Michael Esper (The Last Ship, A Beautiful ...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 21:24
My Husband: A Short Play by Paul Rudnick
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Michael Urie
Starring Harriet Harris and Michael Urie. After gay marriage is legalized in New York, one mother will stop at nothing to get her son to the altar....

  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 19:52
Crazy Eights by David Lindsay-Abaire
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Rosie Perez
Rosie Perez, John Leguizamo, and Bobby Cannavale star in Crazy Eights, a short play by David Lindsay-Abaire. Two recovering drug addicts (Perez, Le...

Bought by KZYX and KZYX


  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 32:14
  • Purchases: 2
The Philadelphia: A Short Play by David Ives
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Jenn Harris
In the manic, outrageous and other dimension comedy The Philadelphia by David Ives, even ordering a sandwich is a challenge of epic proportions - l...

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, and KZYX


  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 15:04
  • Purchases: 3
Section 310, Row D, Seats 5 & 6: A Short Play by Warren Leight
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Peter Jacobson
SECTION 310, ROW D, SEATS 5 & 6 is a short entertaining play from Tony winner Warren Leight about three buddies who bond over their shared passion ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2015
  • Length: 29:40
Higher Powers
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Audra McDonald, Credit: Autumn de Wilde
Aidan Quinn, Audra McDonald and Tonya Pinkins star in shorts by John Patrick Shanley (Oscar, Pulitzer, Tony winner) and Lynn Nottage (Pulitzer Priz...

Bought by KUNM, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 10
Ives Said It
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Liv Rooth
A trio of short plays from a master of the medium, David Ives, with an April Fools Day feel to them. First, in SURE THING, a chance meeting between...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), Oregon Public Broadcasting, KZYX, and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Home Runs
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Jerry Stiller
In I'M WITH YA, DUKE, by Tony winner Herb Gardner, Jerry Stiller plays a fruit vendor dreaming of the good old days when Duke Snider played for the...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), Oregon Public Broadcasting, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 09, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Dearly Departed, Two Comedies
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Peter Sagal
Two short plays. In MILTON BRADLEY by "Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me" host Peter Sagal, a flummoxed Rabbi has to eulogize a mother whose son has only te...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUER, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUNM, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2012
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 6
Two Holidays and a Blizzard
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Jesse Eisenberg
Three short plays. THE BLIZZARD, a chilly thriller, features Jesse Eisenberg as a snowed-in screenwriter facing unexpected guests. In THE MIRACLE O...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WLRH, Connecticut Public (WNPR), WRKF, KUNM and more


  • Added: Dec 16, 2012
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 23
The Mikie Show #56, Jane
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Well, well, here we are again. Another episode hits the airwaves or cyber-lanes, whichever you like, we’re there for you! We’re all the way up to e...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 28:02
The Mikie Show #47, Kara
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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It’s another episode of The Mikie Show! I know, we were all hoping I’d say that. Well, I did. Join us as we speak with Kara Hartzler, an attorney w...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 26, 2012
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1