Radio Plays, Bangers Only

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Feb 12th, 2025

Radio plays, old & new, are close to my heart. In the Golden Age, radio gave Americans all over the chance to hear live theater, performed by the greatest stars of their day, for free! Today, it gives us the chance to *make* theater at low cost, which opens the door to new voices & stories not yet heard in the mainstr...

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Episode	Description	Date Aired	Categories	Hosts	Episode Guests	Length	Curator's Notes
Soundstage NIGHTNIGHT by Lucas Hnath	"An astronaut goes to space. He can’t sleep. He can’t tell anyone. He can’t go ...	May 28, 2020	Fiction	--	--	33:07s	Zapping between mission control and outreach, NIGHTNIGHT follows the mounting tension, jealousy, and paranoia aboard a spaceship as one of its astronauts struggles to fall asleep. I love the rhythm and pacing in this, and think the straightforw

Fall of the House of Sunshine Teeth Together, Teeth Apart	"SEASON 1 -- Episode 5: Teeth Together, Teeth Apart Previously on the Fall of ...	March 15, 2017	Fiction Arts Performing Arts	--	--	29:10s	Every episode of Sunshine finds a way to out-crazy its predecessors, but this one's my fave. It begins with a ~9 minute long musical history pageant for a cult of molar-obsessed dentists. Awe-inspiringly bonkers, and laugh-out-loud funny.

The Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society Fugue in C Minor	"Our thanks to Scott for this week’s visit to the Listener Library! Scott recom...	July 14, 2019	Tv Film Arts Performing Arts Hobbies Games	--	--	51:02s	Vincent Price gives a chilling performance in this Victorian horror. More importantly, the writer is Lucille Fletcher, an absolute legend among suspense writers whose work literally never missed -- and this time, she comes out swinging particul

The Truth The Other Fran	"When a lawyer (Jo Firestone) attends her 20th high school reunion, a former cl...	February 28, 2019	Fiction Arts Performing Arts Audio Drama	Jonathan Mitchell	--	22:01s	Every minute shines, but for me it's the narrator of this piece -- a cross-faded burnout at her high school reunion, accidentally revealing her old friend's terrible secrets -- giving the best radio performance this side of Agnes Moorehead in

The Harrowing Episode 3 - THE STRANGER	"Jackie and Forbes attempt to interrogate the stranger, but are frustrated by h...	June 24, 2020	Fiction Drama Arts Performing Arts	--	--	34:12s	This is where The Harrowing's back-and-forth narrative structure really pays off. Here, they're presenting Jackie as both the questioner and the questioned, pivoting between her tense interrogation of The Stranger and her clinical debrief after

Homecoming 1. MANDATORY	"New clients arrive. A customer asks for the bill. The airport signage needs a ...	November 16, 2016	Gimlet Media Society Culture Film Tv Audio Drama	Alex Blumberg	--	24:23s	Tbh, I could've taken any Homecoming episode and had tons to say about it. But I love the pilot in particular, because each actor establishes their performance so quickly, and so excellently. The busboys dialogue between David Schwimmer and C

Fast Radio Burst! [Episode 2] Testing Dunleavy-Grove	"Great Pines sleeps. Performed by Sinclair Daniel, Maggie Tully, Charlie Manouk...	November 18, 2020	Fiction Science Fiction	--	--	9:46s	Yeah, I wrote it. So what? It slaps.

The Traverse Podcast When The Sun Meets The Sky \| (Episode One)	"Set in iconic Edinburgh locations - from summertime in the Meadows after the w...	May 4, 2021	Arts Performing Arts Fiction Drama	--	--	23:22s	The Traverse Theatre produces some of the best plays on Earth. One problem: it’s this quirky, literally-underground joint in Scotland, which is... a quick swim from NYC. Nonetheless, by the magic of radio, they’re serving fringey realness to e

The Pack Podcast THE CAT'S PAJAMAS	"Picture the roaring 20s...FEATURING:Tracee Chimo Pallero as Delores LillianJoh...	October 8, 2020	Arts	--	--	16:14s	Tracee Chimo Pallero’s winning performance as Delores, an up-and-coming Follies girl, makes me smile; as does the charming nostalgia for 1920s New York.

Playing On Air: Short Audio Plays SURE THING by David Ives	"Sure Thing, a short play by David Ives, with Carson Elrod and Liv Rooth. From ...	March 9, 2015	Arts Performing Arts	--	--	15:02s	Ok, ok! This is cheating. ‘Sure Thing’ is an old play written for the stage. Nonetheless, this radio production feels definitive. Peep the stealth Joe Rogan reference in the ‘politics’ scene.

The Parsnip Ship Annie Jump and The Library of Heaven by Reina Hardy	"directed by Rudy Ramirez, with musical guest Benjamin Weiner "A play for all a...	October 27, 2017	Arts Performing Arts	--	--	1:59:17s

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