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A HEADSPACE MEDITATION by Mara Nelson-Greenberg
Feb 20, 2026
11m 14s
THE RED COAT by John Patrick Shanley
Feb 6, 2026
12m 45s
FATHER'S SIN by Maleek Rae
Jan 23, 2026
20m 50s
THE CORNER CAFE by Charles Mee
Dec 19, 2025
23m 10s
73, SK. by Else Went
Dec 5, 2025
46m 21s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 2/20/26 | ![]() A HEADSPACE MEDITATION by Mara Nelson-Greenberg✨ | meditationcomedic plays+3 | Zoë ChaoPolly Lee | Playing on AirA Headspace Meditation+4 | — | meditationaudio play+3 | — | 11m 14s | |
| 2/6/26 | ![]() THE RED COAT by John Patrick Shanley✨ | teenage loveBronx+4 | John Patrick Shanley | Playing on AirThe Red Coat+4 | — | The Red CoatJohn Patrick Shanley+3 | — | 12m 45s | |
| 1/23/26 | ![]() FATHER'S SIN by Maleek Rae✨ | father-son relationshipdeath row+3 | Maleek RaeFrankie Faison | Playing on Air | — | Father's SinMaleek Rae+3 | — | 20m 50s | |
| 12/19/25 | ![]() THE CORNER CAFE by Charles Mee✨ | audio playtheater+3 | Vandit BhattSasha Diamond+12 | Playing on Airwww.playingonair.org | — | The Corner CafeCharles Mee+5 | — | 23m 10s | |
| 12/5/25 | ![]() 73, SK. by Else Went✨ | radio operatorscommunity+3 | Else WentOlivia Rose Barresi+4 | Playing on AirThe New York Nightingales+1 | Central Coast of California | radiocommunity+3 | — | 46m 21s | |
| 12/5/25 | Playing on Air '25 - '26 Season Announcement✨ | season announcementtheater+3 | — | 73, SKTHE CORNER CAFE+3 | — | Playing on Airseason announcement+3 | — | 6m 44s | |
| 12/29/24 | A STICKY MEMENTO by Ken Urban✨ | college lifeparental expectations+3 | Jane KaczmarekTaylor Trensch | Playing on AirA Sticky Memento+5 | Rockford, Illinois | collegeparents+5 | — | 33m 38s | |
| 12/29/24 | SHEILA: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF by Kirsten Greenidge✨ | zealotrysupermarket+3 | Claudia Catania | Playing on Air | — | Kirsten GreenidgeMelia Bensussen+5 | — | 37m 42s | |
| 12/29/24 | CRISIS PLANNING by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb✨ | birthdayscrisis planning+3 | Peter Sinn Nachtrieb | Bay AreaPlaying on Air | — | Crisis PlanningPeter Sinn Nachtrieb+4 | — | 32m 46s | |
| 12/29/24 | DISNEY/FUKIJAWA BY Lloyd Suh✨ | World War IIpropaganda+4 | Lloyd Suh | Playing on Air | — | Walt DisneyGyo Fujikawa+5 | — | 44m 05s | |
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| 12/22/24 | ![]() REVERIE by John Patrick Shanley | A woman (Carol Kane) is drawn into a neighborhood church by the sound of music beautifully sung. A marriage is taking place within. Do beautiful music and ceremony make a marriage? Reverie, a world premiere written and directed by Oscar, Tony, and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley (Doubt, Brooklyn Laundry, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea), showcases the talents of Carol Kane (The Princess Bride, "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt") and Scarlett Strallen (Cole Porter's The New Yorkers, She Loves Me). Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation between the playwright, actors, and Playing on Air's founder, Claudia Catania. Please be sure to follow us on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn or visit us at www.playingonair.org, where you'll find our complete collection of audio plays. | — | ||||||
| 12/22/24 | ![]() KANSAS ANYMORE by David Ives | 1976 Kansas or Oz, that is the question. Here's a new spin on a great tale spun. To go, or say no? And in which direction? Kansas? or Oz? Tell me. Anyone? Kansas Anymore, a world premiere from esteemed playwright David Ives (Here We Are, Venus in Fur), features screen legend Lois Smith (Twister, "ER") and TV star Catherine Curtin ("Orange Is the New Black", "Stranger Things"). Ives also directs. Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation between the playwright, actors, and Playing on Air's founder, Claudia Catania. Please be sure to follow us on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn or visit us at www.playingonair.org, where you'll find our complete collection of audio plays. | — | ||||||
| 12/22/24 | ![]() DID I MISS ANYTHING IMPORTANT by Patricia Cotter | Parents, Don and Charlotte, summon their adult children, Susanna and Brian, to a meeting at Le Pain Quotidien scheduled smack in the middle of their workday. What's up? Patricia Cotter's comedy ensues. Did I Miss Anything Important? is a world-premiere James Stevenson commission from accomplished playwright Patricia Cotter (Mulan, Jr., The Daughters). The cast includes stalwarts David Rasche, Maryanne Plunkett, Zach Appelman, Lesley Fray, and Lakisha May. Marchánt Davis (Reality, Ain't No Mo') directs. Music by Tom Kochan Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation between the playwright, actors, and Playing on Air's founder, Claudia Catania. Please be sure to follow us on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn or visit us at www.playingonair.org, where you'll find our complete collection of audio plays. | — | ||||||
| 8/27/23 | ![]() BONNET by John Patrick Shanley | In BONNET, the incredibly talented John Patrick Shanley's marital (and sometimes martial) comedy of manners, Dan (John Turturro) has a few questions for his wife Ava (Debra Messing) when she appears at the breakfast table with a meaningful new accessory. BONNET, written and directed by the Tony Award, Academy Award, and Pulitzer Prize-winning Shanley himself, was recorded live at Playing on Air's 10th anniversary benefit celebration at 54 Below and features a feisty score by composer Tom Kochan—plus a bit of adult language! Stay tuned after the play for a rollicking conversation with Shanley, Messing, and Turturro. | — | ||||||
| 8/20/23 | ![]() SECOND SIGHT by David Ives | In SECOND SIGHT, a world premiere written and directed by renowned playwright David Ives, a retired historian's (Danny Burstein) minor surgery brings up major questions that his affable surgeon (Steven Boyer), bemused wife (Susie Essman) and brother (Lee Wilkof) can't seem to answer. Or is he, with the help of an otherworldly stranger (Brittany K. Allen), just seeing things clearly for the first time? SECOND SIGHT is directed by Ives and features music by Dan Moses Schreier, musical direction and piano by Alan Johnson, and special guest vocals by Chloe Holgate, Hai-Ting Chinn, Gregory Purnhagen, and Barbara Rearick. Stay tuned after the play for an insightful conversation with Ives, the actors, Founder and Consulting Director Claudia Catania, and Executive Director Yvie Jones. | — | ||||||
| 8/13/23 | ![]() MARY MARY QUITE CONTRARY by Rehana Lew Mirza | It's 1907 and a typhoid fever outbreak among New York City's elite families has led zealous sanitation engineer George Soper (Matt Park) to the home of the haughty Mr. Winthrop (Michael Chernus) and a face-off with Winthrop's proud, though not very hygienic cook, "Typhoid Mary" Mallon (Catherine Curtin). Playwright Rehana Lew Mirza's history-inspired comedy, a 2021 Wordsmith Duo Commission supported by the Axe-Houghton Foundation, is directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel and features music by composer Tom Kochan. Stay tuned after the play for a lively conversation with Playing on Air Executive Director Yvie Jones and all the featured artists. | — | ||||||
| 8/13/23 | ![]() TYPHOID MARY by Mike Lew | It's 1915 and another typhoid fever outbreak, this one in a bustling hospital run by an officious Supervisor (Cindy Cheung), has once again led dogged sanitation engineer George Soper (Matt Park) to the hospital's newest cook, "Typhoid Mary" Mallon (Catherine Curtin). It's been years since Soper reluctantly released her from a forced quarantine on an inhospitable island. Can Mary finally wash her hands of him for good? Playwright Mike Lew's history-inspired comedy TYPHOID MARY, a 2021 Wordsmith Duo Commission supported by the Axe-Houghton Foundation, is directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel and features music by composer Tom Kochan. Stay tuned after the play for a lively conversation with Executive Director Yvie Jones and all the featured artists. | — | ||||||
| 8/6/23 | ![]() I DON'T KNOW by James McLindon | An old school drill sergeant under fire from his very modern and diverse new recruits desperately longs for simpler times. Directed by John Giampietro, James McLindon's short satire I DON'T KNOW features stage and screen favorite Jay O. Sanders as the Drill Sergeant and an ensemble cast of Broadway, off-Broadway, and TV regulars as his new recruits: Bobby Moreno, Sue Jean Kim, Jeff Biehl, and Brittany K. Allen. After the play, Producing Artistic Director Claudia Catania moderates a conversation with the creative team. | — | ||||||
| 7/30/23 | ![]() HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. ABERNATHY by Lloyd Suh | In Lloyd Suh's HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. ABERNATHY, a shared story, formerly repressed, begins to bridge the racial and generational distance between a white American centenarian of the Greatest Generation (Len Cariou) and his Asian American great-grandson (Ken Leung). Stay tuned after the play for a poignant conversation between the playwright and Founder and Consulting Director Claudia Catania. | — | ||||||
| 7/23/23 | ![]() THE ARMY DANCE by Cary Gitter | It's the summer of 1955, and a new U.S. Army private stationed far away from his New Jersey hometown may have met his match, a very modern Southern belle, at a USO-style dance. Emily Bergl directs a pitch perfect cast—Eli Gelb, Erin Wilhelmi, and Vance Barton—in Cary Gitter's THE ARMY DANCE, which also boasts a nifty-fifties-style score by composer Tom Kochan. After the play, host Claudia Catania and executive director Yvie Jones moderate a lively and poignant conversation with the playwright, director, and actors. | — | ||||||
| 7/16/23 | ![]() ECHO AND NARCISSUS by Amanda Quaid | Hear that? In ECHO AND NARCISSUS, playwright Amanda Quaid's newfangled take on an infamous myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses, a young woman falls in love with a narcissist after a vengeful wife condemns her to a unique fate. The sprightly production is directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, stars Sarah Manton, Christian Conn, and Mia Katigbak, and features a kinetic score by composer Tom Kochan. After the play, Playing on Air (playingonair.org) founder and consulting director Claudia Catania and executive director Yvie Jones dive into conversation with the playwright, director, and actors. | — | ||||||
| 7/9/23 | ![]() JFK TAXI by Aurin Squire | A jet-lagged Gen Z couple (Toney Goins and Kerry Warren) decides to take an old school taxicab home to Brooklyn instead of an Uber, and their kooky cabbie (Louis Mustillo) introduces them to a very different (under)side of New York City. Playwright Aurin Squire's otherworldly urban comedy is a James Stevenson Commission for Short Comedic Plays, generously supported by Josie Merck, and boasts an animated score by composer Tom Kochan. Stay tuned after the play for a spirited conversation, starting at 25:11, with Claudia Catania, Playing on Air's founder and consulting director, executive director Yvie Jones, director Marchánt Davis, and our talented trio of actors. Editing: Joanna Lynne Staub Sound Design: John Kilgore of John Kilgore Sound & Recording [Running Time: 41 minutes and 29 seconds] | — | ||||||
| 9/4/22 | ![]() EVENING AT ANAHEIM by James Stevenson (Summer 2022 Re-Release) | From brilliant New Yorker cartoonist, illustrator, and children's book author James Stevenson comes this darkly hilarious reimagining of iconic animated characters - now "over the hill" and waiting out their golden years at a seedy retirement community in Los Angeles. Directed by Tony nominee Dana Ivey (The Last Night of Ballyhoo, "Boardwalk Empire"), EVENING AT ANAHEIM features Richard Kind (The Producers, "Spin City", "American Dad!"), Karen Ziemba (Tony winner for Contact), Emily Bergl ("Gilmore Girls," Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), Brandon Uranowitz (Falsettos), Carson Elrod (Peter and the Starcatcher), Peter Maloney (Requiem for a Dream), and Tom Alan Robbins (The Lion King). Stay tuned after the play for a high spirited conversation with the cast, director, and Playing on Air founder and consulting director Claudia Catania. EVENING AT ANAHEIM was co-presented with Playwrights Horizons and recorded live in New York City. | — | ||||||
| 8/28/22 | ![]() TENNESSEE by John Patrick Shanley (Summer 2022 Re-Release) | In Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner John Patrick Shanley's TENNESSEE, a wannabe musician seeking an escape plan and a glimpse at his future approaches a dissatisfied woman who's blessed, and possibly cursed, with the power of foresight. The audio play stars Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet (our audio production of MISADVENTURE, Dune, Beautiful Boy, Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird, and Shanley's Prodigal Son on Broadway) and Caitlin FitzGerald ("Succession," "Masters of Sex," It's Complicated). Stay tuned after the play for a spirited behind-the-scenes conversation with playwright/director John Patrick Shanley (BANSHEE, LAST NIGHT IN THE GARDEN I SAW YOU, Doubt, Outside Mullingar), Caitlin FitzGerald, Timothée Chalamet, and founder and consulting director Claudia Catania. TENNESSEE was recorded and co-presented in front of a live audience at The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at New York Public Radio. | — | ||||||
| 8/21/22 | ![]() BANSHEE by John Patrick Shanley (Summer 2022 Re-Release) | Anything can happen when you leave your window open on a warm night. Tony, Oscar and Pulitzer Prize winner John Patrick Shanley (Doubt, Moonstruck, Outside Mullingar) wrote and directed this week's summer re-release about a curious banshee, a fantastical Irish spirit, who pays an ailing teacher a visit and makes him an otherworldly proposal. The mystical comedy features Geraldine Hughes (THE MANDELA EFFECT, TWO CROWS APART, Jerusalem, Gran Torino) and Aidan Quinn ("Elementary," Michael Collins, Desperately Seeking Susan). Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation between the playwright, actors, and founder and consulting director Claudia Catania that includes a few delightfully surprising responses. | — | ||||||
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