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Playing on Air is a public radio show and podcast featuring great American short plays with great American actors. We distribute audio productions of contemporary theater, translating stage...
Today we share the final audio play in our '25 - '26 Season, "A Headspace Meditation" by Mara Nelson-Greenberg, directed by Sarah Lunnie. Th...
Today, we are back with a Playing on Air favorite! POA Regular, Playwright John Patrick Shanley and his two-hander, "The Red Coat". It's bee...
Today, we are proud to premiere the inaugural MC Libby Commission, "Father's Sin" by Maleek Rae with music by Xander Browne . "Father's Sin"...
Welcome back to another episode of Playing on Air! Playing on Air is back for a new season! We've got 5 plays for the '25 - '26 Season, 4 of...
Playing on Air is back for a new season! We've got 5 plays for '25 - '26 Season, 4 of which are new plays, and 3 of those new plays are comm...
Playing on Air's Leadership team, Artistic Director, Joshua Kahan Brody and Associate Artistic Director & Creative Producer, Garlia Cornelia...
When Dee–a forty-something from Rockford, Illinois–visits Harvard's namesake statue, she discovers a legacy student, hiding from his parents...
It's not easy living with a zealot. Or being at the local supermarket where he prowls. Suppose you like bacon? Suppose disposable diapers? T...
What's with these birthdays that end in a zero? How is it that a mere multiple of ten can wield such power? A touch of wit and love language...
It's 1942. WWIl is raging. Mr. Walt Disney is in New York to discuss another propaganda film requested by the US government to boost the war...
A woman ( Carol Kane ) is drawn into a neighborhood church by the sound of music beautifully sung. A marriage is taking place within. Do bea...
1976 Kansas or Oz, that is the question. Here's a new spin on a great tale spun. To go, or say no? And in which direction? Kansas? or Oz? Te...
Parents, Don and Charlotte, summon their adult children, Susanna and Brian, to a meeting at Le Pain Quotidien scheduled smack in the middle...
In BONNET, the incredibly talented John Patrick Shanley 's marital (and sometimes martial) comedy of manners, Dan ( John Turturro ) has a fe...
In SECOND SIGHT , a world premiere written and directed by renowned playwright David Ives , a retired historian's ( Danny Burstein ) minor s...
It's 1915 and another typhoid fever outbreak, this one in a bustling hospital run by an officious Supervisor ( Cindy Cheung ), has once agai...
It's 1907 and a typhoid fever outbreak among New York City's elite families has led zealous sanitation engineer George Soper ( Matt Park ) t...
An old school drill sergeant under fire from his very modern and diverse new recruits desperately longs for simpler times. Directed by John...
In Lloyd Suh's HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. ABERNATHY , a shared story, formerly repressed, begins to bridge the racial and generational distance bet...
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 S...
Hear that? In ECHO AND NARCISSUS , playwright Amanda Quaid 's newfangled take on an infamous myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses , a young woman...
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 th...
From brilliant New Yorker cartoonist, illustrator, and children's book author James Stevenson comes this darkly hilarious reimagining of ico...
In Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner John Patrick Shanley 's TENNESSEE, a wannabe musician seeking an escape plan and a glimpse at his fu...
Anything can happen when you leave your window open on a warm night. Tony, Oscar and Pulitzer Prize winner John Patrick Shanley ( Doubt, Moo...
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...
This week's summer re-release features Daniel Reitz 's ( NAPOLEON IN EXILE ) affecting one-act YOU BELONG TO ME, featuring Amy Ryan (Oscar n...
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...
This week's summer re-release features RELATIVE STRANGERS , a bubbly comedic short from playwright Sheri Wilner ( The Miracle of Chanukah ,...
In Open Arms by Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros , an impending 50th birthday party sets off calamity over coffee and Kindles. Open Arms is dire...
Tony winner Tonya Pinkins ( Jelly's Last Jam , "Fear the Walking Dead," PoA's Poof! ), Tony nominee Condola Rashad ( Saint Joan , "Billions"...
From David Auburn (Pulitzer and Tony winner for PROOF ) comes a riveting, witty world-premiere commission for Playing on Air: GUN SHOW . In...
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...
In the cool, otherworldly confines of a Zoom room, a controversial president's ethereal daughter and hands-on son-in-law surf the choppy wat...
On the precipice of making a world changing medical breakthrough, Amal visits an old lover and they contend with the uncertain future throug...
Amal would like to spend the night hiding from, well, everything. But when her bestie has other ideas - ideas that include a world renowned...
After his hit NUDITY RIDER , OBIE winner Hamish Linklater returns for another helping of irresistible comedy: the world-premiere commission...
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 c...
Airstreams, Winnebagos, Chevys, the blood brothers of RV circuit, take us from the shackles of modernity to the freedom of the road! Two cou...
An aspiring writer ( Isaac Oliver ) who dreams of learning the secrets of the human heart summons an ancient demon ( Vera Beren ). Good thin...
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...
Playing on Air presents Waking Up, an insightful short by Cori Thomas . It juxtaposes the experiences of an American urbanite's and an Afric...
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...
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 ch...
Single mom Suzanne needs an actor for a discreet personal favor. It should be simple. But when she casts Mike, she grossly underestimates th...
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...
Mahalia, a Black trans woman, returns to her hometown of Minneapolis during the tumultuous summer of 2020. Against a backdrop of fire and pr...
A tale of old age, murder and gingernut biscuits. CAMBERWELL HOUSE , a darkly comic one-woman play by Amelia Roper ("The Great"), stars five...
Norman and Max may be dummies, but they're no fools. Offstage, ventriloquist dummies are the same as anyone else — smack-talking their bosse...
Sometimes you lose your keys, sometimes you lose your temper, and sometimes you lose the most unexpected of things. When Marcy and her diffi...