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
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...
Two senior citizens, both windowed, meet at a senior citizen event at a Holiday Inn
conference room. They engage in humorous banter and then discuss their former spouses, each deeply affected by their loss.
Bernadette Armstrong directs Gary Lamb as Jesse and Camille Ameen as Sara.
Curt Strickland is a playwright who recently received a masters degree in playwriting from Lesley University’s graduate progra...
Coming appropriately shortly before Valentine’s Day Together chronicles the entire timeline of a love story of two people who were meant for each other. There will be evidence of their love for years to come.
Sue Gisser directs David Andrew Calvillo as Kyle and Leah Jarvik as Lauren.
Playwright Michael Sams is an established playwright in his native Australia. His
previous plays include Hunters a...
The inevitable part of life, losing someone we love. How much time off from work is fair and just? What happens when the law dictates your allowable grieving time, what are your rights? Law vs human emotion. Which would you decide? Listen in to hear what transpires between an employee and her boss. Will sympathy prevail?"
Kim Hlavac directs Goreti da Silva as Tara and Kim Hlavac as Be...
Three friends open Christmas crackers at a holiday party. Two contain the usual paper crowns and bad jokes. The third contains something that's absolutely terrifying.
Bernadette Armstrong directs a cast that includes Noelle Evangelista, Matt Foyer,
Cynthia Gravinese Brown, Kevin Carr, and Gilbert Glenn Brown.
John Leslie is the playwright. He is a Los Angeles-based actor and writer. His
A worm tries to convince a fish to eat something else so that they don’t end up becoming a fisherman’s meal.
Kim Hlavac directs Sue Gisser and Jeff S.S. Johnson.
Matthew Moore is the playwright. With a career spanning over fifteen years, Moore has accumulated numerous awards for his work. Exceptionally prolific, Moore’s many previous plays include Bereavement Days, Superman and the Optometrist, 21 Fo...
Foster and Jackson are trudging along in the desert on the hot sands, the sun beating down on them. Foster brags about his Texas chili, while Jackson praises his wife’s red beans and rice. How did the two of them end up in the desert in the first place?
Gary Lamb directs Peter Bonoff and David Purdham.
Robert Nersesian is the playwright. The Washington, D.C.-based writer is the recipient of an M.F.A....
A man is haunted by his past when he tries to reunite with an old flame.
Gary Lamb directs Elaine Mello as Liz and Michael Fletcher as John.
Mark SaFranko is the playwright. The New Jersey-based writer is the author of four
novels and over fifty published short stories. His previous plays include The Bitch-Goddess, Incident in the Combat Zone, Interrogation #2, Raw Connections, The Promise, A Har...
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