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.
Don't just listen to podcasts. Learn from them with transcripts, summaries, and chapters for every episode. Skim, search, and bookmark insights. Learn more
*** Complete our listener survey for a chance to win a $50 gift card! *** NEXT CHAPTER PODCASTS PRESENTS THE PLAY ON PODCAST SERIES, “TROILUS AND CRESSIDA” SHAKESPEARE’S BITING COMEDY ABOUT THE ABSURDITY OF WAR AND THE UNDERBELLY OF LOVE. AN EPIC ANTI-LOVE STORY PERFORMED BY AN ENSEMBLE OF AMERICA’S MOST ACCOMPLISHED STAGE ACTORS IN A MODERN ENGLISH VERSE TRANSLATION BY LILLIAN GROAG. DIRECTED BY KIM MARTIN COTTEN RADIO PLAY BY CATHERINE EATON WITH ORIGINAL SOUND DESIGN AND COMPOS...
*** Complete our listener survey for a chance to win a $50 gift card! *** “We Gave Everything We Had” : Actor Randall Duk Kim and Director Annie Occhiogrosso reflect on their lives as artists, creating American Players Theater, how much you can learn from studying “Hamlet” over fifty years, what it takes to be great, where to find the best audiences in the country, how strawberries and chocolate can make all the difference on Press Day, the importance of language, what Keanu Reeves ...
*** Complete our listener survey for a chance to win a $50 gift card! *** “We Gave Everything We Had” : Actor Randall Duk Kim and Director Annie Occhiogrosso reflect on their lives as artists, creating American Players Theater, how much you can learn from studying “Hamlet” over fifty years, what it takes to be great, where to find the best audiences in the country, how strawberries and chocolate can make all the difference on Press Day, the importance of language, what Keanu Reeves re...
*** Complete our listener survey for a chance to win a $50 gift card! *** “I fell into Shakespeare!” Historian and podcaster Cassidy Cash describes how finding a copy of a play tucked between a Bible and a hymnal in her grandmother’s house in rural Alabama led her into a life of learning about the past, the present, engineering information, painting castles, making podcasts, playing Noddy and knowing what a Link Boy was! Check out her excellent show That Shakespeare Life wherever you li...
*** Complete our listener survey for a chance to win a $50 gift card! *** There is no Orthodoxy”: Professor Richard Burt teaches us about the paratext, un-reading Shakespeare, Derrida and Plato in under an hour! With a soothing reminder that writing is both the poison and the remedy... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Holly Brown may have grown up right next to Hollywood, but her life was a world away from her 90s sitcom dreams. Instead, Holly’s childhood was filled with family secrets, immense loss, and heartbreaking grief. SO. What’s a girl to do? Create a genre-bending, dark comedy podcast, of course! Welcome to… Everybody Knows But Me: A dark comedy podcast about the secrets we inherit and the stories we tell to survive Holly revisits her dark, twisty past and proves that you actually can make your life i...
*** Complete our listener survey for a chance to win a $50 gift card! *** “That’s what you hear with Sinatra!” Larry Walsh describes how spending 25 years re-mastering the entirety of “Ol' Blue Eyes” recordings taught him how to tune his ear to Shakespeare. Plus, why a mix engineer will never have a sharkskin suit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
***This show is brought to you by Quince. Go to http://quince.com/playonpod for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.*** Complete our listener survey for a chance to win a $50 gift card! “Everybody Tells the Skinny Kid What To Do” - Sound and Mastering Engineer Larry Walsh reflects on the lifelong journey through audio that led him to Shakespeare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
***This show is brought to you by Quince. Go to http://quince.com/playonpod for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.*** Complete our listener survey for a chance to win a $50 gift card! “There are no villains”: Actors Maria-Christina Oliveras and Christine Toy Johnson open up about the painfulness of trying to belong, the grace of finding forgiveness, and the joy of reinventing yourself through the epic storytelling of “Cymbeline”. Learn m...
***This show is brought to you by Quince. Go to http://quince.com/playonpod for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.*** Complete our listener survey for a chance to win a $50 gift card! “It’s a play about an incredibly broken world”: Playwright Andrea Thome and Director Stephen Brown-Fried reflect on the challenges, liberations, miracles and faith they had putting “Cymbeline” together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...
***This show is brought to you by Quince. Go to http://quince.com/playonpod for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.*** Complete our listener survey for a chance to win a $50 gift card! Next Chapter Podcasts presents the complete Play On Podcast series, CYMBELINE, in its entirety. The PLAY ON PODCAST SERIES, “CYMBELINE”, was written by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE and translated into modern English verse by ANDREA THOME. All episodes were directed by RAK...
***This show is brought to you by Quince. Go to http://quince.com/playonpod for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.*** Complete our listener survey for a chance to win a $50 gift card! Caius Lucius asks Cymbeline to ransom his servant, a British boy (who is, of course, the disguised Imogen). Cymbeline does not recognize her but orders her freed and offers to give her any privilege within his power to grant. She speaks with him in private, and Belar...
***This show is brought to you by Quince. Go to http://quince.com/playonpod for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.*** The Queen is stricken with a wasting fever as she frets over the absence of her son, Cloten. Cymbeline threatens Pisanio with torture in an attempt to find out where Imogen has fled. The Romans invade Britain, and Belarius can’t keep his sons from joining the fight. Posthumus returns to Britain with the Roman soldiers, believing Imogen...
***This show is brought to you by Quince. Go to http://quince.com/playonpod for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.*** Belarius and his sons return to their cave to find Imogen feasting on their food. She apologizes and offers to pay for what she’s taken, introducing herself as “Fidele”. Guiderius and Arviragus (who go by the names Polydore and Cadwal) feel an immediate kinship with the stranger and take to calling Imogen their brother. Meanwhile, Cloten...
***This show is brought to you by Quince. Go to http://quince.com/playonpod for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.*** In the wilderness, an old shepherd named Belarius wakes his two sons, Guiderius and Arviragus, telling them to get out of their cave and enjoy the wonders of nature. The boys complain about never being allowed to go to the city. Belarius tells them the city is nothing but treachery, recalling his days as a nobleman in Cymbeline’s court bef...
***This show is brought to you by Quince. Go to http://quince.com/playonpod for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.*** Cloten orders a group of hastily assembled musicians to play under Imogen’s window, hoping to win her heart. As they play, Cymbeline and the Queen pass by and tell Cloten to keep persisting with Imogen. A messenger brings word that ambassadors from Rome have arrived. The royal couple goes to greet the Romans, telling Cloten to join them afte...
It’s the final episode of A Walk In The Garden and that can only mean one thing: the broadcast of the entire audio presentation of Botanic Garden The Musical! You’ve heard all of the episodes that have taken you through the entire process of creating the show, now you can enjoy the final results and see how all of the collaborators worked together to make this timeless musical experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Executive producer Michael Goodfriend introduces the episode by discussing Cymbeline's critical reception and its place among Shakespeare's late, boundary-pushing romances. The plot thickens as Posthumus and Iachimo make a fidelity wager, while the Queen schemes with a fake poison and Pisanio's loyalty is tested. Iachimo manipulates a grieving Imogen with false tales of Posthumus's infidelity, ultimately tricking her into safeguarding a trunk, setting the stage for his nocturnal infiltration to gather "proof."
This episode introduces Shakespeare's "problem play," Cymbeline, exploring its ambiguous genre and critical history. It sets the scene with the forbidden marriage of Princess Imogen to the worthy but commoner Posthumus, leading to his banishment and her imprisonment. The narrative follows Posthumus to Rome where a dangerous wager is struck with the skeptical Iachimo regarding Imogen's unwavering virtue, setting the stage for betrayal and conflict.
NEXT CHAPTER PODCASTS PRESENTS THE PLAY ON PODCAST SERIES, “CYMBELINE” SHAKESPEARE’S ROMANTIC FAIRY TALE OF SECRET MARRIAGE, BANISHMENT, FALSE ACCUSATIONS, MISTAKEN IDENTITIES, RECONCILIATION AND REUNION. PERFORMED BY AN ALL ASIAN AMERICAN, ALL-FEMME CAST, IN A MODERN ENGLISH VERSE TRANSLATION BY ANDREA THOME. RADIO PLAY BY CATHERINE EATON. DIRECTED BY RAKESH PALISETTY. INSPIRED BY THE ACCLAIMED STAGE PRODUCTION PRESENTED BY THE NATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN THEATRE COMPANY. “FALSEHOOD IS WORSE IN KIN...
***This show is brought to you by Quince. Go to http://quince.com/playonpod for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.*** “There is great reward and great risk in love”: Actors Reg Rogers and Tracie Lane talk about their relationships with the roles they play, the work they do, and the lives they lead in the every-shifting sands of showbiz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Todd Logan invites Lindsay Jones to help adapt Todd’s play Botanic Garden into a musical and almost immediately Lindsay realizes he has no idea how to write a musical. Lindsay writes the perfect opening song which everyone loves until they all realize that perhaps it’s not the perfect opening song. Inspired by Stephen Sondheim’s struggle to write “Comedy Tonight”, Lindsay creates “Why Am I Here” which is actually becomes the perfect song to open the show. Lindsay then vows to write an entire mus...
***This show is brought to you by Quince. Go to http://quince.com/playonpod for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.*** “It’s a perfect play”: Director Brendon Fox delves into the nooks and crannies of “Much Ado About Nothing,” shedding new light on a story he’s told five times (and counting!). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
***This show is brought to you by Quince. Go to http://quince.com/playonpod for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.*** Next Chapter Podcasts presents the complete Play On Podcast series, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, in its entirety. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
***This show is brought to you by Quince. Go to http://quince.com/playonpod for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.*** Claudio performs his penance and is rewarded with a miraculous gift that brings everyone together again– this time, for good. The PLAY ON PODCAST SERIES, “MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING”, was written by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE and translated into modern English verse by RANJIT BOLT. All episodes were directed by BRENDON FOX. Radio play by CATHERINE EATON. Exe...
***This show is brought to you by Quince. Go to http://quince.com/playonpod for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.*** The Sexton enters the interrogation room of the Battleship Richelieu to record the accusation against Borachio and Conrade. When Borachio confesses everything, the Sexton tells him that Hero has died and Don John has fled. Meanwhile, Leonato and Antonia confront Don Pedro and Claudio on their way out the door of the villa. The men stand by their sto...
***This show is brought to you by Quince. Go to http://quince.com/playonpod for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.*** Claudio shames Hero at the altar as Don Pedro and Don John back him up. Hero collapses and the guests are cleared out of the chapel. Leonato rages at his daughter until the Deacon intervenes, vouching for Hero’s honor. She makes a plan to keep Hero in hiding and spread word that she is dead in order to stir guilt and remorse in the conspirators that f...
This episode sees Benedict and Beatrice playfully teased about their changing behavior, hinting at newfound romance. Meanwhile, Don John masterminds a cunning plot, convincing Claudio and Don Pedro of Hero's disloyalty, setting the stage for public humiliation at her wedding. In a stroke of comedic irony, bumbling Chief Constable Dogberry and his watchmen inadvertently overhear Borachio's confession, revealing the entire deception. However, their ineptitude delays the crucial news, leading to a dramatic and heartbreaking confrontation as the wedding ceremony begins, fulfilling the episode's title, "We've Caught Our Fish."
This episode of Play On Podcasts' "Much Ado About Nothing" delves into the play's themes of love, deception, and cuckoldry. Don John conspires to ruin Hero's reputation, while Don Pedro, Leonato, and Claudio scheme to make Benedick believe Beatrice loves him, leading him to abandon his anti-marriage stance. Simultaneously, Hero and Margaret trick Beatrice into believing Benedick is in love with her, causing her to reconsider her own disdain for marriage.
The episode delves into the masked ball where Beatrice, unknowingly, mercilessly teases Benedick, setting the stage for their volatile relationship. Meanwhile, Don John orchestrates a deceitful plot, tricking Claudio into believing Don Pedro has wooed Hero for himself, leaving Claudio crestfallen. However, the truth is revealed, leading to Claudio and Hero's engagement, and inspiring Don Pedro, Leonato, Claudio, and Hero to conspire to bring the feuding Beatrice and Benedick together.
