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This week on On Story we’ll hear from Seinfeld writer David Mandel. And later will hear from screenwriting duo Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewsk...

  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Tony Shalhoub
Featuring Tony Shalhoub ("The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," The Band's Visit) and Kristine Nielsen (Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus), YOU NEED THERAPY...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Aug 26, 2020
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Hospitalist Ann Knapp navigates her own doubts and assumptions when her patient, a ninety-year-old man, states he wants to die -- today.

  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 29:25
Caption: Lucy DeVito
In 1933, a young Jewish immigrant returns to his Polish hometown in search of a wife and sets his sights on Chava, a savvy shopgirl. Written by Car...

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, and KUER


  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 18:21
  • Purchases: 3
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
Caption: Brad Bellamy
"[A]s funny a 20 minutes as you’re likely to see in a theater, thanks to a spectacular performance by Brad Bellamy as a football coach who recently...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 19:02
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
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Join Neil deGrasse Tyson as he goes where no scientist has boldly gone before - on an intergalactic exploration of the Great American Songbook!

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 16, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:29
  • Purchases: 3
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In this episode For the Record Tom and Julian go behind the scenes of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd.

  • Added: Nov 10, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Bird Cages, Credit: Thomas Quine
In this episode of For the Record, Tom and Julian put "a little more mascara on" to go behind the scenes of the original cast recording of La Cage ...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2016
  • Length: 59:59
Caption: Ed Asner
Starring Ed Asner and Jesse Eisenberg, in The Final Interrogation of Ceausescu’s Dog, a deposed dictator’s beloved pet answers to the disenfranchis...

Bought by KZYX and KZYX


  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 10:25
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: James Lescene
Starring James Lecesne, Elizabeth is a short play about a son moving back in with his mother after his divorce. Written by David Cale, it features ...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 14:23
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
Caption: Hope Davis
Two passengers of very different statures meet on a plane and take off! A Very Very Short Play by Jacquelyn Reingold features Tony nominee Hope Dav...

  • Added: May 05, 2016
  • Length: 13:37
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Stories of relationships that have ended, and the things (the often slightly nutty things) that people do in the aftermath.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 01:11:19
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From theater to radio to Hollywood...the ambition of Orson Welles, as Patrick McGilligan tells us in his new book Young Orson, was already old-fash...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 59:57
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring Actress Sandra Luesse, Writer Matt James, and Grey Mountain by John Grisham, in ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2015
  • Length: 57:56
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Noa Guy was a promising Israeli composer. When she came to New York twenty-one years ago to rehearse for a concert at Carnegie Hall, she never imag...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2015
  • Length: 14:09
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CAFÉ ACOUSMATIC: the finest blend of electroacoustic music, sound art, and 3D binaural audio.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2015
  • Length: 58:01
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The Bricklayers (Matt Trucano, founding artistic director; Kyle Cadotte, co-founding artistic director, and Jonathan Greene, international theater ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 02, 2013
  • Length: 16:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Diane... is an audio documentary that explores the world of Twin Peaks-fandom.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 14:58
  • Purchases: 1
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It's happened again. Your favorite TV show is beginning to lose its appeal. Now the shark has been jumped, and there's no going back. Now what?

Bought by XRAY.fm and KUT


  • Added: Jun 08, 2012
  • Length: 10:37
  • Purchases: 2
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Actor / writer / composer David Ingber has created musicals about Zombies, and Fantasy Football, an ESPN web series, and several screenplays. He ch...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2012
  • Length: 58:04
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An interview with clown, accordion player & medal award winning unicyclist Bartek Soroczynski about his experiences while traveling with Cirque E...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2004
  • Length: 10:09