Mistress Slapbottom clears the pub of all its rowdy revelers, leaving her alone with a woman who laments being tasked with ghost writing a sexist play about the taming of a shrew. She begins a page one rewrite, making the female protagonist, Katherine, a woman who loves learning and cannot stand being cooped up by the men who try to control her. We meet Lucentio and Tranio, who are visiting Padua. Strolling through the university, Lucentio is immediately smitten by Katherine’s sister, Bianca, an...
Mar 10, 2025•27 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast “She’s possibly the worst written character in all of dramatic history.” Amy Freed on why she re-wrote Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”, with director Art Manke. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 03, 2025•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Written by Amy Freed in response to Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”, hear how one of America’s leading contemporary writers brings an out-moded classic up to date. Featuring an outstanding ensemble of accomplished stage and screen actors, with original music composition and sound design by Lindsay Jones. Directed by Art Manke. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 24, 2025•56 sec•Transcript available on Metacast “He just goes for it!”: Andy Grotelueschen describes how Touchstone inspires us to take chances in life, how a teacher in Iowa inspired him to pursue acting, and why it’s so much easier to be funny on Broadway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 17, 2025•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast “She speaks her mind.” Korean-American actor and lead singer of the rock group Kiss the Tiger, Meghan Kreidler opens up about her experiences playing Rosalind in “As You Like It”, being a woman in the world of rock ’n’ roll, her tumultuous relationship with Shakespeare and her love of lyricism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 10, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast “What does it mean to be a free spirit?” Director Kim Martin Cotten and Radio Play Writer Catherine Eaton discuss the vision and meaning behind the Play On Podcast series adaptation of “As You Like It”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 03, 2025•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast “You cannot skip steps”: David Ivers on the process of acting, directing, writing and translating his way through a career in the arts on a relentless search for clarity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 27, 2025•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Curious Matter Anthology is a multi-award-winning fully immersive fiction podcast. It's a bridge between past and present, a time machine that takes listeners back to the golden era of pulp fiction, and then catapults them back into the future. It's an ode to an era of science fiction, whose stories have influenced some of the greatest filmmakers of our time, and it's a tribute to the largely unrecognized authors who penned these tales. But it's not just about the stories; it's about how they're...
Jan 20, 2025•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast “The goal is to challenge folks.” Glenn Davis reflects on his work as an actor, producer, and Artistic Director of Chicago’s famed Steppenwolf Theater. (Is it possible Marc Antony might just be too good a person?) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 17, 2025•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast “Who am I called to be?” Visionary artist and producer Charlique C. Rolle expounds on her efforts to love recklessly, build faithfully, and create fearlessly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 06, 2025•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast “We’re going to have to stay informed and fight back”: Playwright Jeffrey Solomon and actress Zuleyma Guevarra discuss the making of DeNovo, what leads to mass migration, why it’s our responsibility as U.S. Citizens to see people as human beings and what we can do to help refugees who are on the brink of being deported to death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 03, 2025•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast New York based not-for-profit theater company Houses on the Moon, and playwright Jeffrey Solomon creates acclaimed documentary plays. DE NOVO recounts the life and death of a Guatemalan teenager, Edgar Chocoy, who was deported after a failed asylum bid in the USA and murdered by the very group he testified would execute him were he to be returned to that country. With help of the NYC City Council, we were able to produce an audio adaptation of DE NOVO, which tells the story in three potent half ...
Jan 03, 2025•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast “Whatever you do well, it contributes” - Michael Potts on what he does well, from Shakespeare to August Wilson, and how playing the long game got him where he is today. (With fond remembrances of Chadwick Boseman). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 30, 2024•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast “The themes remain the same.” Actor / Director Harry Lennix expounds on the themes of friendship, politics, religion, the evolution of Black Nationalism, what it takes to be a successful revolutionary and why Julius Caesar may be the greatest person to have ever lived. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 23, 2024•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast June 1949. Heiress Mitzi Ballantyne has gone missing during her "Reno-vation" at the Sidewinder Resort. Detective Francis O'Connell, a Bible-toting bloodhound, would rather be at his Ma's sickbed. Instead, he steps off the train and into a den of liberated ex-wives who test his every nerve. Crooked cops, runaways, and divorcees collide in a female-forward, "west-of-center" take on the classic noir. Created and Directed by Rachel Music Showrunning by Michi Broman and Elena Christina Wagoner Learn...
Dec 16, 2024•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Next Chapter Podcasts presents the complete Play On Podcast series, JULIUS CAESAR, in its entirety. **** The PLAY ON PODCAST SERIES, “JULIUS CAESAR”, was written by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE and translated into modern English verse by SHISHIR KURUP. All episodes were directed by HARRY LENNIX. Radio play by MARCUS GARDLEY. The cast is as follows: MICHAEL POTTS as JULIUS CAESAR GLENN DAVIS as MARK ANTONY JEREMY TARDY as MARCUS BRUTUS LESTER PURRY as CAIUS CASSIUS and LIGARIUS MEGAN BOONE as PORTIA, METE...
Dec 09, 2024•3 hr 40 min•Transcript available on Metacast At Philippi, Octavius and Antony disagree over tactics but unite against Brutus and Cassius when they meet for one final negotiation before battle. They hurl insults at each other and part ways. Brutus and Cassius discuss what will happen if they lose. Brutus vows he will not be taken captive. The two friends say goodbye and go into battle. As Brutus attacks Octavius’s army, Cassius watches his troops flee from Antony’s soldiers. When he hears from Pindarus that Antony has entered his camp, Cass...
Dec 02, 2024•30 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast As Brutus waits for Cassius in the rebel camp, he learns from Lucilius that Cassius is not as friendly as he once was. As soon as he arrives, Cassius accuses Brutus of wronging him. Not wanting their soldiers to see them fighting, they withdraw into Brutus’s tent to carry out their argument in private. It all comes to an end when Cassius offers his dagger to Brutus and bares his chest for Brutus to kill him. Once they make their peace, Brutus tells Cassius that his wife, Portia, has killed herse...
Nov 25, 2024•28 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast At Caesar’s funeral, the angry crowd demands answers. Brutus speaks first, saying that he loved Rome more than Caesar. Asking the crowd if they would rather be free with Caesar dead or slaves with Caesar alive, the crowd sides with Brutus. But when Antony enters with Caesar’s body, things begin to change. He reminds the crowd of Caesar’s good qualities and shows them the wounds on Caesar’s body where each knife pierced his skin. Then he reads Caesar’s will, revealing that Caesar has bequeathed t...
Nov 18, 2024•32 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast Caesar approaches the Temple, noting that the “Ides of March” have come. He refuses to read Artemidorus’s warning. Cassius worries their plot has been discovered but Brutus reassures him. As they approach the Temple, Metellus Cimber pleads with Caesar to return her brother, Publius, from banishment. Caesar refuses. Once inside the Temple, the conspirators surround Caesar and stab him to death, proclaiming “Tyranny is dead!” Antony’s servant enters and reports that Antony has fled to his house. B...
Nov 11, 2024•27 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Brutus paces in his study, unable to sleep. His wife, Portia, enters and begs him to tell her why he’s so troubled. He does his best to comfort her and tells her he’ll explain everything later. Caius Ligarius, an ailing Senator, enters to meet with Brutus, who convinces him to join the assassination plot. Caesar has a hard night as well. His wife, Calphurnia, tells him of terrible dreams she’s been having about his murder and says they are omens for Caesar not to go out of the house. When Decius...
Nov 04, 2024•26 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast Caska and Cicero meet on a stormy night. Caska trembles at the omens he’s seen until Cassius arrives and dispels his fears with the encouragement that they’re not alone in fighting tyranny. Cinna nervously joins them, expressing her hope that Brutus will join their conspiracy. Cassius reassures her that Brutus is on board. Later that night, Brutus ruminates at home on the possibility of killing Caesar, deciding that murder is the only way to stop him. His servant, Lucius, announces the arrival o...
Oct 28, 2024•31 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast Activists assemble outside the Stadium to celebrate Caesar when they’re interrupted by Flavius and Murellus, who challenge them to honor not just one man but all the people who helped in the Movement. Once the group breaks up and moves on, Flavius tells Murellus to help him take down all the posters celebrating Caesar. Inside the stadium, Caesar and his entourage–including his closest friend, Antony, and his wife, Calphurnia–are enjoying the thrills of a drag race when they’re interrupted by an ...
Oct 21, 2024•35 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast Marcus Gardley’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s roiling political drama takes us into the heart of the Civil Rights movement. Directed by Harry Lennix and translated into modern English verse by Shishir Kurup, featuring the voices of Michael Potts, Glenn Davis, Megan Boone and Jeremy Tardy, with original composition and Sound Design by Lindsay Jones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 14, 2024•1 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this special episode we’re featuring a conversation from The History of Literature, the chart-topping books podcast from our friends at The Podglomerate. This show covers all of the classic literature you love, and even ones that you love to critique. Join host and book enthusiast Jacke Wilson for thoughtful conversations with expert guests that range from explorations of the longevity of The Illiad, to making the case for Persuasion being Jane Austen’s best novel. In today’s episode, Jacke t...
Sep 30, 2024•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Next Chapter Podcasts presents the complete Play On Podcast series, AS YOU LIKE IT, in its entirety. The PLAY ON PODCAST SERIES, “AS YOU LIKE IT”, was written by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE and translated into modern English verse by DAVID IVERS. All episodes were directed by KIM MARTIN-COTTEN. Radio play by CATHERINE EATON. The cast is as follows: MEGHAN KREIDLER as ROSALIND JULIAN CIHI as ORLANDO ADELIN PHELPS as CELIA JAMES UDOM as OLIVER and SIR OLIVER MARTEXT FRANCELLE STEWART DORN as DUKE SENIOR D...
Sep 23, 2024•3 hr•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Phebe confronts Rosalind (“Johnnyseed”) for being rude, leading Sylvius, Phebe, Orlando and Rosalind to expound on the meaning of love as a thunderstorm descends. Rosalind ends their railing by telling them to meet again tomorrow for a wedding where they will all be married to the one they love. Touchstone and Audrey celebrate as two musicians from Duke Senior’s camp pass by. Touchstone asks them to sing a song, which they do to great fanfare, but he gets jealous and mocks their music when they ...
Sep 16, 2024•32 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Jacques returns to Duke Senior’s camp to discover that someone killed a deer. He suggests they present it to Duke Senior as an offering and asks Amiens to sing a song to mark the occasion. Back at the farm, Silivius delivers Phebe’s letter to “Johnnyseed”. Seeing it’s full of praise for Johnnyseed, Rosalind scolds Silvius for loving a woman who treats him so badly. S/he sends him back to Phebe with the message that Phebe should love Silvius. As Silvius is leaving, Orlando’s brother Oliver enters...
Sep 09, 2024•30 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Celia tries to comfort Rosalind when Orlando doesn’t show up at the cottage for his first coaching. Corin arrives to invite them to spy on Silvius courting the reluctant Phebe. Rosalind, still dressed as Johnnyseed, follows and confronts Phebe when she sees how poorly she treats Silvius, but it backfires when Phebe falls for her instead. Rosalind beats a hasty retreat with Celia. Phebe tells Silvius she’s going to write “Johnnyseed” a love letter for him to deliver. Back in the forest, Rosalind ...
Sep 02, 2024•32 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast Celia tells Rosalind that Orlando is the poet whose writing has so delighted them. When they hear Orlando approaching in argument with Jacques about love, they hide to eavesdrop. Once Jacques leaves, Rosalind steps out and introduces herself as “Johnnyseed”. She promises to cure Orlando of his lovesickness provided he agrees to pretend that she’s Rosalind and comes every day to practice wooing him. Orlando happily agrees. Back at the concert, Touchstone and Audrey make their way through the crow...
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