Open-Door Playhouse
Open-Door Playhouse is a monthly podcast harking back to live radio theater broadcasts. Created to introduce New Plays, New Writers, and… a wealth of unknown talent. Giving them the opportunity to have their works created in sound studios as opposed to live stage productions and presented on the Podcast as “Radio Productions.” Play submissions will be solicited online, outreach centers and word of mouth. Broadcasts will be once a month (to start) and grow as demand requires. Long term goal is to reach out to undeserved writing communities: prisons, school and community groups to provide an avenue to have their voices heard, via plays, short stories or poetry, and to establish Podcast as its own 501c3 organization.To submit your play contact:open-doorplayhouse@gmail.com
Episodes
For reasons he can't explain, Stephen feels compelled to enter a sketchy-looking tattoo parlor that any reasonable person would avoid altogether. Once inside, he encounters a peculiar old woman, who Stephen enlists to become the artist of his baptismal ink job. At the first prick of the needle, Stephen decides to make a move for the door, but the old woman bars his way with a terrifying
plan in store.
Miranda ...
Do citizens have the right to judge elected leaders on personal morals? An idealistic voter lost faith in a political candidate and is demanding that he return the contribution she made to his campaign. A man with ties to the candidate appears at her door, offering her money if she will "back off." Can her values stand up to the test?
Bernadette Armstrong directs a cast that includes Rosemary Thomas as Agn...
Allison and Mark have been best friends since grade school. Now, they’re fortyish. Allison is a married suburban mom with three kids. Mark is single and gay. Allison has a lifelong fear of the dark. Just what happens when it’s Lights Out?
Bernadette Armstrong directs a cast that includes Cynthia Gravinese Brown as Allison, Matthew Scott Montgomery as Mark, and Noelle Evangelisti as The Nurse.
Michael...
Matt and Lisa always seem to have plenty of money. Neither one of them has jobs. This perplexes and vexes their friends Erin and Tom.
Miranda Stewart directs a cast that includes Michael Fletcher as Matt, Caitlin Bell as Lisa, Brittany Vallely as Erin, and Jaime Pla as Tom.
Kevin B is the playwright. His recent play, The Jelly Bean, was a selection at the Pittsburgh New Works Festival. His other play...
A wealthy couple is having dinner. They had invited two other couples to join them but the guests left after some sort of disagreement. What was it all about?
Rachel Berney Needleman directs Goreti da Silva as Louise and David Trice as Walter.
Rosemary FrisinoToohey is the playwright. A married mother of four, she resides in Baltimore. Her plays have received over 280 productions, domestically and in...
A man gets the surprise of his life when he calls the Suicide Hotline.
Rachel Berney Needleman directs a cast that includes Noelle Evangelisti as Anita and Matt Foyer as Charlie.
Richard Fouts is the playwright. His previous plays include Running Mate, The Birthday Lottery, My Afternoon with Lenny, Summer Me, Winter Me, Family Secrets, and Dead Serious.
Founded by playwright and filmma...
A soap opera addict gets some much-needed advice from a TV spokesman.
Bernadette Armstrong directs a cast that includes Zelda Kimble as Beverly, Camille Ameen as Delilah, and Kevin Carr as Todd-Brentley and The Announcer.
Lori Londagin is the playwright. Her previous plays include Lockout, Scale, Chipotle, and First Rodeo. Her plays have been performed in Washington, Ohio, North Carolina, New York, and Califor...
After their father’s funeral, adult siblings Sam and Grace, each somewhat embittered in their own way, discover that they had wildly divergent experiences while growing up.
Yunyi Zhu directs a cast that includes Christine Uhebe as Grace and Gerald James as Sam.
Amber Patterson is the playwright. This is her first play. She is also an actor.
Founded by playwright and filmmaker Bernadett...
In this comedy, a generation gap is explored between a senior customer at a marijuana dispensary and the young dude running the place.
Gary Lamb directs a cast that includes Joyce Hananel as Susan and Justice Davis as Tommy.
Romney Humphrey is the playwright. An award-winning screenwriter, she is a former media writer and producer. Her many plays include Best Friends, Holidays, Dogs & Nuts, The V...
In 2064, Bruce Koinstra, an 85-year-old history professor, passes away in a moon colony senior housing complex. Following his memorial service, his husband of thirty years, Kirby, along with his forty-year old daughter Septima; and teen grandson Plurial gather at Bruce's Midwest Victorian home. They await the reading of Bruce's will and the demolition crew scheduled to raze the house. Reflecting on Bruce&apo...
Buttercup is a detective in the big city. A woman has been abandoned by her husband, who has absconded with their funds. All the woman has left is a statue of a duck. She’s hiring Buttercup to locate her husband (and her money). But Buttercup is finding that the duck comes with strings attached.
Rachel Berney Needleman directs a cast that includes Maureen Davis as Buttercup, Annette Homewood as the Wife, Nathan Smythe ...
Set in the Winslow home in 1935, a wife and mother of five is pregnant again, but she is keenly aware that something is very wrong with this pregnancy.
Bernadette Armstrong directs a cast that includes Ayla Rose Barreau as Mary, Gilbert Glenn Brown as James, Omari Williams as Doctor #1, and David Purdham as Doctor #2.
Melissa May Curtis is the playwright. Her play The Deal was warmly received at the ...
Looking for a new apartment together is a great way to get to know somebody and their existential despair.
Bernadette Armstrong directs Kim Hlavac as Kathleen, Michael Fletcher as Jeremy, and Barika Phillips Bell as the Rental Agent.
Nino Greene is the playwright. The recipient of an MFA from San Francisco State University, his previous plays include You Don’t Have to Cry and The Undecided Voters of ...
A man is exceptionally devoted to his mother….much to the chagrin of his wife. No spoilers here, but a diamond is involved.
Mimi Kmet directs Grey Gable, Ashley Taylor, and David Baer.
Charles Simon is the playwright. A graduate of University of Wisconsin and Jewish Theological Seminary, his previous plays include The Wine Club, Backwards, and Therapisssts.
Founded by playwright and filmmaker Bernadette A...
This is the fourth in a series of audio comedies featuring the Penny Slots, a trio of mature ladies who somehow find themselves doing heroic deeds and saving the day when thrown into dangerous adventures.
The three superheroines are back by popular demand.
In Theatre 80, Part Three; Ladies Fly Home To Vero Beach, Penny Slots Ladies, Kay, Marie and Helen handed in “their wings” after saving their plane from cr...
A desperate man and woman accidently choose the same bridge to bring their troubles to an end and realize they may have found what they’ve been missing in each other, but is it too little too late?
Yunyi Zhu directs Christine Uhebe as Alina and Larry Coleman as Harris.
Rich Nagle is the playwright. He’s a musician and songwriter active in the Washington State area who also writes screenplays.
Fo...
In Jerusalem, at the Western Wall, a traumatized Israeli soldier gets into a debate with a rabbi about prayer notes stuck into cracks in the Wall, while nearby air raid sirens wail a warning.
Bernadette Armstrong directs Gary Lamb and Dennis Gersten.
Peter Prizel is the playwright. He is the author of two fiction books, The Fermented
Savior and An Angelic Folly. He also writes poetry. Based in Bedford Fall...
The classic tale of The Little Matchstick Girl is beloved, but also...depressing? That's why the protagonist has decided to take matters into her own hands. Can she avoid her tragic fate without derailing her entire story? A comedy about rewriting your own narrative.
Bernadette Armstrong directs Gloria Tsai as The Little Match Girl, Matthew Scott
Montgomery as The Duke, and Matt Foyer as The Narrator.
Kevin B...
Founded by playwright and filmmaker Bernadette Armstrong, Open-Door Playhouse is a Theater Podcast- like the radio dramas of the 1940s and 1950s. The Playhouse launched on September 15, 2020. At the time, Open-Door Playhouse provided Playwrights, Actors and Directors a creative outlet during the shutdown. Since its inception. Open-Door Playhouse has presented Short and One-Act plays from Playwrights ac...
After the death of his father, a grief-stricken Hamlet is plagued by psychotic delusions making him think several others have died and that he is at fault. He finds comfort in an unexpected source: the dearly not departed Ophelia.
Rachel Berney Needleman directs Kim Hlavac as Ophelia and Omari Williams as
Hamlet.
Allie Costa is the playwright. Remarkably prolific, her many, many plays include Two...
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