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Something I'll Tell You Tuesday by John Guare
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Lois Smith
Starring Carol Kane, Julie White, Lois Smith; written by Tony winner John Guare; directed by Tony winner Doug Hughes is Something I’ll Tell You Tue...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 34:03
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
Dear Kenneth Blake by Jacquelyn Reingold
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Jodi Long
Dear Kenneth Blake by Jacquelyn Reingold features Matthew Cowles and Jodi Long in a moving romance between a Cambodian refugee and a homeless man.

  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 20:23
A Very Very Short Play by Jacquelyn Reingold
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
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
Cosmic Connections: Two Short Plays by David Auburn and David Ives
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
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
Teenagers: The Agony and the Ecstasy - Two short plays by Christopher Sullivan
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Lucy DeVito
Two short plays about teenagers facing their futures. With summer imminent, they look ahead with anxiety, optimism, resignation, possibility. In th...

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


  • Added: Nov 04, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Two Jewish Men In Their Seventies: A short play by Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Jerry Stiller
Two Jewish Men In Their Seventies by Pulitzer Prize finalist Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros features the hilarous Bob Dishy (Along Came Polly) and Je...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 15:10
THE INDIE ROCK SHOW
From: Mike Matthews
Series: Mike's Daily Podcast
Caption: CURE FOR GRAVITY, Credit: CURE FOR GRAVITY
Today it’s the return of the much-loved feature INTO AN INTERVIEW where we’ll hear from JOE MARKERT of the wonderful BERKELEY band CURE FOR GRAVITY...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2015
  • Length: 35:45
All Well and Good: Two Short Plays by David Ives
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Kelly Hutchinson
Two short plays by the master of the form, David Ives (Venus In Fur, All in the Timing). In David Ives’ ITS ALL GOOD, a Chicago native visits his h...

Bought by WHRV, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KZYX, and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
THE COUNTRY SHOW
From: Mike Matthews
Series: Mike's Daily Podcast
Caption: MIKE AND BENITA, Credit: MIKE MATTHEWS
Today it’s the return of a segment that we have not had in OVER A YEAR! It’s called the CASSETTE CUBBYHOLE where I’ll be playing back a MATTHEWS IN...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2015
  • Length: 22:37
THE INDIE POP SHOW
From: Mike Matthews
Series: Mike's Daily Podcast
Caption: MIKE AND BASIL AT THE BEACH, Credit: MIKE MATTHEWS
Today it’s the return of the much loved feature INTO AN INTERVIEW where I’ll be speaking with the EXTREMELY talented Nashville-based singer/songwri...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 20:34
THE INDIE ROCK SHOW
From: Mike Matthews
Series: Mike's Daily Podcast
Caption: KS RHOADS, Credit: KS RHOADS
Today it’s the return of the much loved feature INTO AN INTERVIEW where I’ll be speaking with the EXTREMELY talented Nashville-based singer/songwri...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2015
  • Length: 31:54
Teaming Up: Two Short Comedies by Kim Merrill and Lanford Wilson
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Marsha Mason
Marsha Mason (4 time Academy Award nominee) and Steven Boyer (Tony nominee for HAND TO GOD and regular on TV's "Trial and Error") star in TASHA WA...

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


  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist Jane Smiley
From: New Letters on the Air
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Jane Smiley discusses her 2014 book, SOME LUCK, the first in a trilogy that follows an Iowa farm family for more than a century. Smiley talks about...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR


  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 2
Sure Thing: A Short Play by David Ives
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Liv Rooth
A meet-cute in a coffeeshop contains multitudes, in this entertaining, experimental short, now a classic, from David Ives (Venus in Fur). It is fro...

Bought by KZYX, KUNM, and WABE


  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 15:03
  • 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
Vets and Nets
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Tonya Pinkins
In Forward Observer, Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins plays a harried Veterans Administration Hospital clerk. An elderly World War II veteran is giv...

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


  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
First Novel to TV Series: Author Jason Mott and “The Returned"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
Piece image
Jason’s first novel was inspired by a dream in which his late mother visited him. He goes on to describe his day job while he was writing the book ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 19, 2015
  • Length: 09:55
  • Purchases: 2
Banshee: A Short Play by John Patrick Shanley
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Aidan Quinn
In BANSHEE, a teacher (Aidan Quinn) who's home sick receives a visitation from an Irish sprite (Geraldine Hughes) and an out-of-this-world proposal...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2015
  • Length: 25:46
I Do's
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Michael Urie
Michael Urie, Harriet Harris and a great ensemble of actors star in three short plays about love and marriage. A couple celebrates their 24th anniv...

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


  • Added: Feb 11, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Authors Readers Theatre
From: New Letters on the Air
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Richard Peck (A YEAR DOWN YONDER), Brian Selznick (THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET), Sarah Weeks (PIE), and Avi (CRISPEN: THE CROSS OF LEAD) discuss t...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Birds and the Bees
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: William Jackson Harper
William Jackson Harper is a lascivious bee swarming a young woman’s Upper West Side apartment. Two vultures have a bone to pick with Saint Francis....

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


  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
Crazy Love
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Rosie Perez, Credit: Rob Northway
John Leguizamo, Rosie Perez and Bobby Cannavale star in CRAZY EIGHTS by David Lindsay-Abaire (Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner). Two recovering drug ...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WRGY, KUNM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 8
Food and Wine Books in the News
From: The Book Report
Series: The Book Report
Caption: Elaine Charles, Credit: Former Library of Congress and Miami Herald staffer
A spread of new books about food: from evil sugar to wonderful wine.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 54:10