Soundstage
by Playwrights Horizons
Theater is for everyone and we want to make it available everywhere. Soundstage is an anthological, scripted fiction series of portable stories from Playwrights Horizons theater in New York City. Featuring short-form commissions from America’s best playwrights, these audio experiences are written specifically for the ear, not translated or recorded live from the stage. Now, the theater is wherever you are.
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Episodes
Bonus! YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM YOURSELF by Erin Courtney
16m · PublishedA darkly comedic fable of violently lonely doppelgängers who mind-meld and are brought together through cookies, rats, and their cosmic connection to an exterminator.
Written by Erin Courtney
Produced and directed by Kate Bergstrom
Written for Crystal Finn and Lucy Taylor and Todd Almond as the Exterminator.
Sound Designer and Additional Music Works by Michael Costagliola
Associate Produced and Stage Managed by Calvin Anderson
With music by Todd Almond
Bonus! FREEDOM, FREEDOM, FREEDOM, ET CETERA by Dave Harris
37m · PublishedA panel of Black thinkers (a Broadway playwright, a spoken word poet, a Columbia professor, and an activist) try to define Freedom in the year ???? in this dark comedy about ancestors and artists.
Written by Dave Harris
Directed by Taylor Reynolds
Sound Design by Ben Scheff
Sound Editing by Dylan Carrow
Production Stage Manager -- Hanako Rodriguez
CAST:
Walter Mixon Riley -- JEROME PRESTON BATES
LaToya Beasley -- BRITTANY BRADFORD
Jake Dillers / Sponsors / Announcer -- YONATAN GEBEYEHU
Jones Joseph -- DAVE HARRIS
Jerome Barker Thomas -- BEETHOVEN ODEN
Season 2 of Soundstage was made possible with the generous support of the Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Playwrights Horizons is supported in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. In addition, Playwrights Horizons receives major support from the Howard Gilman Foundation, the J. L. Greene Arts Access Fund in The New York Community Trust, and The Shubert Foundation.
Bonus! VAPOR TRAIL by Ken Urban
57m · PublishedThis week we're so happy to bring you a full length audio play written, directed, and produced by our friends and frequent collaborators Ken Urban, Dan Kluger, and Knud Adams. It premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Festival as part of their Audio Storytelling program, and we're so pleased to be able to re-release and amplify it here for you, our Soundstage audience! Enjoy!
At a chance meeting at the farmers market, two strangers find a connection rooted in their own unspeakable tragedies. The evening they spend together becomes an encounter they can’t forget.
Written by Ken Urban
Directed by Knud Adams
Audio Produced and Mixed by Daniel Kluger
Starring Maulik Pancholy and April Matthis
Recorded by Noel Nichols
Edited by Noel Nichols and Christian Frederickson
Foley by Daniela Hart
Additional Sound Design by Christian Frederickson
Produced by John Albert Harris
Original Music by Daniel Kluger and Occurrence
To listen to the music from Vapor Trail, the soundtrack is available here: https://occurrencemusic.ffm.to/vaportrail
VAPOR TRAIL premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Festival as part of their Audio Storytelling program and it was developed at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, MN during the 2020-21 season. VAPOR TRAIL was made possible thanks to the support of the d'Arbeloff Fund, the DeFlorez Fund and the SHASS Research Fund from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Bonus! VAPOR TRAIL by Ken Urban
57m · PublishedThis week we're so happy to bring you a full length audio play written, directed, and produced by our friends and frequent collaborators Ken Urban, Dan Kluger, and Knud Adams. It premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Festival as part of their Audio Storytelling program, and we're so pleased to be able to re-release and amplify it here for you, our Soundstage audience! Enjoy!
At a chance meeting at the farmers market, two strangers find a connection rooted in their own unspeakable tragedies. The evening they spend together becomes an encounter they can’t forget.
Written by Ken Urban
Directed by Knud Adams
Audio Produced and Mixed by Daniel Kluger
Starring Maulik Pancholy and April Matthis
Recorded by Noel Nichols
Edited by Noel Nichols and Christian Frederickson
Foley by Daniela Hart
Additional Sound Design by Christian Frederickson
Produced by John Albert Harris
Original Music by Daniel Kluger and Occurrence
To listen to the music from Vapor Trail, the soundtrack is available here: https://occurrencemusic.ffm.to/vaportrail
VAPOR TRAIL premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Festival as part of their Audio Storytelling program and it was developed at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, MN during the 2020-21 season. VAPOR TRAIL was made possible thanks to the support of the d'Arbeloff Fund, the DeFlorez Fund and the SHASS Research Fund from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
THE MARRIAGE OF EARTH AND SKY by Agnes Borinsky
39m · PublishedThe farmer wants the shepherd. The shepherd wants God. The playwright isn't quite sure what she wants. A play about grief and desire and the mess that is the theater.
Written by Agnes Borinsky
Directed by Brooke O'Harra
Sound Design by Nick Auer
CAST:
Loretta -- JANICE AMAYA
Leah / Bruce -- JESS BARBAGALLO
Bonita -- AGNES BORINSKY
Vinie -- VINIE BURROWS
Martha -- ANNIE FANG
Adam -- ADAM GREENFIELD
Mary -- MARY NEUFELD
Bettina -- BRYNA TURNER
Flautist -- Isabel Lepanto Gleicher
HIS CHEST IS ONLY SKELETON by Julia Izumi
31m · PublishedA little meditation on what it is to carry what we can and can't control, and the crossroads of being and belonging.
Written by Julia Izumi
Directed by Sarah Cameron Hughes
Sound Design by Fan Zhang
Rocks -- JESS BARBAGALLO
Someone -- JORGE CORDOVA
Grandchild -- MIDORI FRANCIS
She -- HARUNA LEE
He -- RONALD PEET
Mother -- SAORI TSUKADA
(THERE'S) NO TIME FOR COMEDY / LOOPS by David Greenspan
26m · PublishedTwo audio plays -- an old radio comedy of anxiety in the modern world, and a soliloquy of lost love -- sprung from the mind of this singular and iconic playwright.
Written by David Greenspan
Directed by Ken Rus Schmoll
Sound Design by Leah Gelpe
(There's) No Time for Comedy Cast:
Sidney - EVANDER DUCK JR.
Henry Flower - DAVID GREENSPAN
Darlene - BETH GRIFFIN
Mona - LISA KRON
Donald - PACO TOLSON
Loops Cast:
Player - DAVID GREENSPAN
(THERE'S) NO TIME FOR COMEDY / LOOPS by David Greenspan
26m · PublishedTwo audio plays -- an old radio comedy of anxiety in the modern world, and a soliloquy of lost love -- sprung from the mind of this singular and iconic playwright.
Written by David Greenspan
Directed by Ken Rus Schmoll
Sound Design by Leah Gelpe
(There's) No Time for Comedy Cast:
Sidney - EVANDER DUCK JR.
Henry Flower - DAVID GREENSPAN
Darlene - BETH GRIFFIN
Mona - LISA KRON
Donald - PACO TOLSON
Loops Cast:
Player - DAVID GREENSPAN
LAST WORDS OF UNCLE DIRT by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
45m · PublishedPROGRAM B: RAPID IMMERSION by Sheila Callaghan
45m · PublishedCongratulations for choosing Program B! Our goal is to challenge and elevate you. It won't be easy, but transformation is possible! If you trust the process.
Written by Sheila Callaghan
Directed, Designed, and Edited by Alex Barron
Original music by Surrija
CAST: Rashan – FRANCIS BENHAMOU
Chatty Stranger – SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Whispering Man – MATTHEW J. HARRIS
Additional voices – BRANDT ADAMS, KAILEE AYYAR, ALEX BARRON, ALISON KOCH, NGOFEEN MPUTUBWELE, J.J. SUELTO, MAGGIE THOMPSON, NYSELI VEGA
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Soundstage has 53 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 20:37:15. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 25th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 17th, 2024 22:12.