Podcast Categories: Performing Arts

Shipwreck: A History Play About 2017

Audio Version and Original Stage Play by Anne Washburn
Directed and Freely Adapted by Saheem Ali

Produced by The Public Theater In a co-production with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

Original Music Composed and Performed by The Bengsons
Sound Designer Palmer Hefferan
Audio Engineering by UltraViolet Audio; Matt Boynton Owner and Chief Engineer; Lead Audio Engineer Ania Grzesik
Assistant Audio Engineer Beth Lake

In Fall 2020, as the election draws near, tune in to a searing and searching new audio drama from acclaimed playwright Anne Washburn about America’s present-day divisions, seen through the eyes of the very recent past. SHIPWRECK centers on a group of liberal friends gathered at an upstate farmhouse on a day of crystalline beauty. While the weather outside grows increasingly apocalyptic and the conversation within grows precariously honest, the group discovers that in turbulent times, every dinner invitation comes at a cost. Slated to be a stage production in The Public’s 2020 season, SHIPWRECK has been re-worked specifically for an audience listening from home or headphones. Saheem Ali directs this harrowing and hilarious masterpiece about race, religion, family and the nightmarish fallout of the American experiment.

Featuring Mia Barron , Brooke Bloom, Phillip James Brannon , Bill Camp, Rob Campbell, Raúl Esparza, Sue Jean Kim, Jenny Jules, Bruce McKenzie, Joe Morton, Jeremy Shamos, and Richard Topol.

A series of thirteen original stories reveling in the horror and comedy of Halloween.

Plans We Make with Son Lux is a unique artist-interviewing-artist podcast where band members Ryan Lott, Rafiq Bhatia, and Ian Chang take turns speaking with guests about a shared theme in three volumes: Technology, Collaboration, and Voice. Volume 1 includes conversations digging deeply into the relationship between technology, perception, and creativity: • Composer and Singer Ryan Lott interviews Producer Chris Tabron (Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, Common). • Guitarist Rafiq Bhatia interviews Experimental Drummer and Songwriter Deantoni Parks (The Mars Volta, We Are Dark Angels). • Drummer Ian Chang interviews Visual and Performance Artist and former Google Artist in Residence Sougwen Chung.

Amanda Palmer is a rock star, best-selling author, TED speaker and community leader who does everything on her own terms simply by asking. Now, she turns the tables on her colleagues and heroes to find out how they create art, love difficult people, work for change, and survive the worst moments of their lives. From porn stars to empathy researchers, and cartoonists to climate scientists, no topic is out of bounds.

Word for Word is a San Francisco based theater company that brings works of literature to the stage. Instead of adapting a script, they use every word of a text in a dynamic, evocative style that communicates the intended beauty of the prose or poetry.

In this new podcast, the company brings their unique style into your home for the first time, revisiting some favorite stories from the past as well as exploring some works they haven’t previously performed. Fans of Word for Word will appreciate the same aesthetic from their full theatrical productions and their Off the Page reading series.

Created and hosted by musical theater writers Kyle Wilson and Sam French, [insert movie here]: The Musical! is a chaotic love letter to both movies and musical theater. In an unscripted podcast format, Kyle and Sam take movies that should probably never become musicals and transform them into outrageous musical comedies. Listen in as they grapple in real time with the task of adapting a three-act movie into a two-act musical, conceiving songs, scenes, cuts, casting… to create breathtaking theatrical experiences ready for Broadway.

Recent college grad Selah Copeland (Jerrika Hinton) is being groomed to takeover her mother’s accounting business, but after a life-changing weekend away at a yoga retreat, she’s considering other options. Centered is an audio drama about finding yourself on and off the mat.

J. Claude Deering is a comedian and actor whose friends are much more successful than he is. Join him and his famous guests for fun and insightful conversations about the intersection of career, art, and life.

Each episode of the series features interviews with huge movie stars, big TV stars, and even some bright shining Broadway stars. As well as second guest interviews with exciting up-and-coming comics and actors, and established producers, directors, and writers.

For the listener who wants to be encouraged to live in the light of Jesus, performing artist, founder of Rise Collective and host Laura Leigh Turner brings you conversations surrounding stories of faith and Biblical truth. You will hear from performers in the Broadway community, various creatives, authors, ministry leaders and more! For the listener who needs a little uplifting and a reminder of the goodness of our God.