Play On Podcasts
Play On Podcasts are epic audio adventures reimagining timeless tales, featuring original music composition and the voices of extraordinarily gifted artists. This is where Theatre meets Podcast, combining the modern-day audio phenomenon with the power of live performance.
Episodes
April 1, 2023 • 2 min
Introducing...The Tempest
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March 24, 2023 • 8 min
Cloe is an AI researcher who discovers that her AI assistant, Eloc, has the power to analyze love in different objects, she decides to use Eloc's new skill to help her find love.
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March 18, 2023 • 47 min
When Gloria took a waitressing job in a diner outside of Phoenix, she didn't realize she was now an employee of Midnight Burger, a time-traveling, dimension-spanning diner. Every day Midnight Burger appears somewhere new in the cosmos along with its staff: a galactic drifter, a rogue theoretical physicist, a sentient old-timey radio, and some guy named Caspar. No one knows who built Midnight Burger or how it works, but when it appe...
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March 15, 2023 • 41 min
“Every breath opens your heart.” Visionary theater artist Lisa Wolpe has been leading the movement for gender parity and diversity in the arts since way before it was trendy. Hear her describe Shakespeare’s sacred geometry, why Antigonus has to be eaten by a bear, and how Charlotte Cushman shamed Edwin Booth!
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March 8, 2023 • 38 min
“Every breath opens your heart.” Visionary theater artist Lisa Wolpe has been leading the movement for gender parity and diversity in the arts since way before it was trendy. Hear her describe Shakespeare’s sacred geometry, why Antigonus has to be eaten by a bear, and how Charlotte Cushman shamed Edwin Booth!
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March 3, 2023 • 33 min
BEEF is an original scripted non-fiction storytelling podcast where Business Wars meets pop culture history.
Award-winning host Bridget Todd tells the stories of legends in their fields and how they tried to stomp out their competition only to find that their enemies become the driving force behind their success, ultimately changing the world as we know it.
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March 1, 2023 • 13 min
“Shakespeare wrote for the butts in the seats!” Tracy Young traces her path from The Actors Gang to Cornerstone to OSF with the reminder that you can never stop unearthing new meaning, and that Brian Eno can lead an artist to unexpected outcomes.
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February 24, 2023 • 29 min
The Amelia Project is a secret organization offering a very special service: Faking its clients' deaths! Its eccentric clientele includes cult leaders, criminals and politicians all desperate to disappear and start over... For how long can the secrecy last?
With the help of his indispensable assistant Alvina, The Amelia Project's Interviewer needs only a 20 minute consultation to help any troubled client disappear into a new and ex...
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February 22, 2023 • 11 min
The Translator & Director of The Winter's Tale sits down with Executive Producer Michael Goodfriend to discuss this adaption and her career.
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February 17, 2023 • 30 min
Using archival material and interviews with surviving cast and crew members, Forward executive editor Adam Langer presents a story that's never been told: the backstory of "The Diary of Anne Frank," the Pulitzer Prize-winning play and Oscar-winning film, and how this iconic work shapes those involved in performing it — including high school students putting the show on today. The Diary of Anne Frank, which debuted on Broadway in 19...
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February 10, 2023 • 37 min
Leontes welcomes Florizel and Perdita to Sicilia and promises to help when he learns that Polixenes is pursuing them. Autolycus, drinking in a pub, hears about the reunion of Leontes and Polixenes and the discovery that Perdita is Leontes’ daughter. The Old Shepherd and his son enter, reveling in their good fortune. Autolycus apologizes for his misdeeds. Back at the palace, Paulina leads Leontes, Perdita, Florizel, Camillo and Poli...
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February 3, 2023 • 28 min
Autolycus, now in Florizel’s garb, masquerades as a courtier and convinces the Old Shepherd and his son to pay him to be their advocate at Court. Meanwhile, in Sicilia, Cleomenes and another Lord urge Leontes to cease mourning for Hermione, but Paulina insists that he continue to live a life of piety and repentance for his past actions until the prophecy “that which is lost be found” is fulfilled.
CREDITS
The Play On Podcast serie...
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January 27, 2023 • 28 min
As Florizel proclaims his love for Perdita to all the guests at the Sheep Shearing festival (including his father and Camillo who are still in disguise), the Old Shepherd calls for their wedding to take place during the celebration. The unknown guest tries to persuade the young man to hold off until he’s told his father, or at least discussed it with him, but Florizel refuses, saying his father must not know anything about it. Enra...
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January 20, 2023 • 30 min
As Perdita prepares for the sheep shearing feast, Florizel flirts with her and vows he’ll stay with her no matter what. Perdita is less carefree, fearing the repercussions that will come if the king discovers his son has been cavorting with someone beneath his station. Perdita’s father, the Old Shepherd, arrives and tells his daughter to greet their guests, including two strangers (Polixenes and Camillo, disguised as farmers), who ...
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January 13, 2023 • 38 min
CREDITS
The Play On Podcast series, “THE WINTER’S TALE”, was translated into modern English verse and directed by TRACY YOUNG.
The Cast is as follows:
ELIJAH ALEXANDER as LEONTES
KAYLA CARTER as PERDITA and EMILIA
GINA DANIELS as HERMIONE, MOPSA, SHEPERD’S SERVANT and PAULINA’S STEWARD
RODNEY GARDINER as POLIXENES
ELIJAH GOODFRIEND as MAMILLIUS
IAN GOULD as CLOWN, LORD and GENTLEMAN
CRISTOFER JEAN as ANTIGONUS, OLD SHEPHERD, SERVA...
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January 6, 2023 • 32 min
After presenting him with his newborn daughter, Leontes throws Paulina out of his chambers and commands Antigonus to kill the child. His Lords beg him to relent and he appeases them by commanding Antigonus to abandon the baby in the wilderness instead. Cleomenes and Dion, meanwhile, return from the Oracle of Delphi full of optimism. The trial comes to order. Hermione testifies in her own defense against her husband’s accusations. T...
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December 30, 2022 • 33 min
Camillo assures Leontes he’ll carry out his orders but secretly informs Polixenes of the plot against his life. Together, they flee to Polixenes’ kingdom of Bohemia. An enraged Leontes claims their flight is proof of their guilt in conspiring against his life and his crown. He orders his son, Mamillius, to be taken from Hermione’s chambers and has her imprisoned on charges of adultery and conspiracy. Hermione insists on her innocen...
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December 23, 2022 • 33 min
King Polixenes of Bohemia bids adieu to his childhood friend, King Leontes of Sicilia, after a visit of nine months. Leontes implores him not to leave and prevails on his pregnant wife, Hermione, to persuade him to stay. When Polixenes gives in to Hermione, Leontes goes mad with jealousy and paranoia, convinced that his wife is carrying his best friend’s child, not his own. He orders his top advisor, Camillo, to poison Polixenes.
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December 9, 2022 • 26 min
Mariana confronts Angelo as the Duke calls for Friar Lodowick. In a scuffle with Lucio, the Friar is unmasked and revealed as the Duke. He calls for the women to be released and forces Angelo to marry Mariana before condemning him to death. Mariana begs for mercy on behalf of Angelo. Barnardine arrives and is pardoned by the Duke. The Provost confesses that she’s kept Claudio alive, and reunites him with Isabella. The Duke sends Lu...
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December 6, 2022 • 13 min
In Part Two of his interview, Nat Cassidy explains why the “rape room” got cut, why horror exists, why writing a script is forty-seven thousand times easier than writing a novel, why actors should celebrate the audition even if they don’t get the job, why Open Source Shakespeare is the adapters’ best friend, and why the elitism and classism of rehearsal rooms drove him from pursuing a career as a classical actor. Plus, a special ea...
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