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Steel Magnolias
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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The classic story of friendship, in its original theatrical version.

Bought by KFCF FM, KMUN, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 27
The Man In Red
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
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BRIAN COX as Santa Claus! In this musical, holiday dazzler written, directed and produced by Arian Moayed (“Succession,” Bengal Tiger at the Baghda...

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


  • Added: Nov 08, 2021
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 3
TRUTH HURTS: A Two-Part Radio Thriller
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Amy Ryan
Amy Ryan (“The Office”) and Jeremy Shamos (Netflix's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom") star in TRUTH HURTS, a two-part radio thriller from Playing on Air...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Dec 30, 2020
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
AFTERMATH: Loss and Hope in Short Middle Eastern Plays
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Carol Kane
Carol Kane ("The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt") stars in AFTERMATH, two short plays set in the present-day Middle East on how to begin the work of reb...

Bought by KUNM and Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Dec 10, 2020
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 2
RDD: A Night of Improv
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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We're going to hang out with Unfiltered, one of the longest running improv troupes in Toledo, on this week's episode of The Rough Draft Diaries. We...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 06:09
RDD: It's Never Too Late
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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We're meeting two best friends, Mary and Mary. That's Mary Aufman and Mary Boyer creators of The Lakeside Theatre Company in Toledo, Ohio. It's Tol...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2019
  • Length: 06:14
A Hedgehog and a Spatula
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Carol Kane
Carol Kane and Jeremy Shamos in A HEDGEHOG AND A SPATULA. The show features recordings of the winners of Playing on Air's 2018 James Stevenson Priz...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR) and KUNM


  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 53:05
  • Purchases: 2
Last Night in the Garden I Saw You by John Patrick Shanley
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
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With one hop of the fence, a star-crossed lover (Emmy nominee Rupert Friend) storms back into the life of the married woman (Golden Globe winner Mi...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:18
New York Story by Mike Reiss
From: Playing on Air
Caption: Mike Reiss
In NEW YORK STORY by Mike Reiss (“The Simpsons”), Ed Asner is a master of the one-liner to his public, a pain-in-the-neck to his son (Peter Jacobso...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2018
  • Length: 31:31
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
Inside Voice by Kate Robin
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Kate Robin
In Kate Robin's Inside Voice, two parents watching their toddlers having fun in an indoor playground take on the big wide world beyond. Hear an exc...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 33:45
Misadventure by Donald Margulies
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Timothée Chalamet
Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) and Zoe Kazan (The Big Sick) star in Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Donald Margulies' Misadventure. In ...

Bought by KZYX and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 12:12
  • Purchases: 2
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
Wanting North by Tanya Barfield
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: April Matthis
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 freed...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 20:56
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
Dissenting Adults: Two short plays by David Auburn and Leland Frankel
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Martha Plimption
Featuring Emmy winners Bobby Cannavale and Martha Plimpton, and recorded live on stage at Playwrights Horizons, the entertaining and timely plays i...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR) and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
The Art and Talent of Christopher Peltier
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode, we visit with a Minnesota native who is acting in two productions at Great Riv er Shakespeare Festival. He can be seen as one of t...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 16:52
Talented Women
From: Justine Yan
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A 75-year-old actress confronts her fear of aging while writing and performing on Cape Cod.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 3
We'll Be Fine: Three Short Plays by Donald Margulies, Julia Cho, and Max Baker
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Timothee Chalamet
Timothee Chalamet, Zoe Kazan, Ciaran Hinds, Geraldine Hughes star in three humorous shorts in which love trumps panic, insecurity and anxiety! In ...

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


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Freedom in the Wings: Two short plays by Tanya Barfield and Kate T. Billingsley
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: John Douglas Thompson
Sam Waterston and John Douglas Thompson star in this offering from Playing on Air. It features two short plays about American Black History. In th...

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


  • Added: Feb 28, 2017
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 7
Lending A Hand: Two Short Plays by Cusi Cram and Arlene Hutton
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Jane Alexander
Jane Alexander, Peter Jacobson, Amy Ryan and Michael Stuhlbarg star in two short, touching and humorous plays about stepping up when you are neede...

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


  • Added: Nov 02, 2016
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Beyond Glory, Part 2 - Two short pieces by Stephen Lang
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Stephen Lang
"One of the richest, most complex pieces of acting I've seen in my theater going life." The Wall Street Journal "As starkly moving as taps at dusk...

Bought by KUNM, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WHRV, and Oregon Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4