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Caption: Dudley Riggs in 2012, Credit: Sheila Regan
"Instant Theater" was a term that Dudley Riggs, founder of the Brave New Workshop theater came up with in the 1950s. The former circus and vaudevil...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 17:42
Caption: HUGE Improv Theater has purchased the Art Materials building and will transform the south half of the building into a theater., Credit: Sheila Regan
After learning that their landlord had donated to a former KKK leader, HUGE Improv Theater knew they needed to move. So how did a small arts non-pr...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 05:24
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Brad Phillips has served as a sideman for some of Michigan’s biggest singer/songwriter acts, but today on The Rough Draft Diaries we're talking all...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2019
  • Length: 06:04
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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
Caption: Mixed Precipitation singers., Credit: Regina Woolson
Theater-in-the-park often means Shakespeare, not a mashed up operetta that serves food. But that's what Mixed Precipitation has been presenting to ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2018
  • Length: 03:43
Caption: Rachel Bonds
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 b...

Bought by KZYX and KUER


  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 15:27
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Nick Bacon
The story of Nick Bacon is a portrait from Stephen Lang's one-man show, Beyond Glory, based on the book by Larry Smith of the same title. He portra...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 16:50
Caption: Scott Adsit
In Alan Zweibel’s short play Happy, a baseball fan (Scott Adsit of “30 Rock” and “Veep”) makes a pilgrimage to the home of a former baseball star w...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 34:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Composer Craig Harris moves to center stage in "SenseAbility", a multimedia performance he created at Open Eye Figure Theatre. Harris explores the ...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:48
Caption: Kira Obolensky, Credit: Xan Holston
Playwrights are a lot like the song writers of the theatre world; both are almost always overshadowed by the artists who perform them. But local pl...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 04:16
Caption: Marsha Mason
Starring Marsha Mason and Steven Boyer. In the short comedy, TASHA WALKS, a young man (Steven Boyer, Tony nominee for HAND TO GOD, NBC's "Trial & E...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 16:14
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"The Theatre, the Theatre, what's happened to the Theatre?" Well according to Elizabeth Cottle, manager of support services at The Valentine Theat...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2016
  • Length: 06:07
Caption: Amy Ryan
Two short plays. In Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn’s Fifth Planet, a professional astronomer played by Amy Ryan (Birdman; Gone, Baby, Gone) an...

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


  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Zach Appelman
In Christmas Breaks by Patrick Gabridge, a young man surprises his girlfriend with some curve ball gifts. Featuring Zach Appleman (War Horse and "S...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 15:57
Caption: Lexington High School senior Alex Parrish leads the actors in a version of "Two-Headed Boy" by Neutral Milk Hotel, while freshman Emma Feinberg (right) sings along., Credit: Avishay Artsy
Students in Lexington, Mass. have written a play based on the music of '90s band Neutral Milk Hotel.

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 07:10