Playing on Air
Your place for audio plays.
Playing on Air produces short audio plays featuring the best of Broadway.
For free.
“Sometimes hilarious, often affecting and always refined productions. . . Browsing through the selection feels like diving to a treasure chest and picking out whatever jewel suits your fancy for that day.”
— Maya Phillips, New York Times
Pulitzer Prize-winning
playwrights.
Tony-winning
actors.
Whenever you want to hear them.
Jane Kaczmarek • Margo Martindale • Lisa Emery • Michael Esper • Jim Dale • Audra McDonald • Michelle Williams • Dominique Morisseau • Jesse Eisenberg • John Lithgow • Tony Shalhoub • Danny DeVito • William Jackson Harper • Sam Waterston • Rosie Perez • Amy Ryan • Michael C. Hall • Marisa Tomei • John Leguizamo • J. Alphonse Nicholson • David Harbour • Gabriel Ebert • Tonya Pinkins • Daphne Rubin-Vega • Timothée Chalamet • Dana Ivey • John Douglas Thompson • Richard Kind • Ciaran Hinds • Denis O’Hare • Bobby Cannavale • Steven Boyer • Nitya Vidyasagar • Bobby Moreno • Quincy Tyler Bernstine • Martha Plimpton • Judy Gold • Scott Adsit • Carol Kane • Hamish Linklater • Michael Stuhlbarg • Kristine Nielsen • Molly Bernard • April Matthis • Susie Essman • Louisa Krause • Condola Rashad • Zoe Kazan • Scarlett Strallen • Melanie Nicholls-King • Tom Alan Robbins • Len Cariou • Lois Smith • Michael Urie • Celia Keenan-Bolger • Stephen Lang • Bill Irwin • Eisa Davis • Jeremy Shamos • Rupert Friend • David Furr • Marsha Mason • Elizabeth Ashley • Ed Asner • Liv Rooth • Peter Jacobson • Tracee Chimo • Lucy DeVito • Jane Krakowski • Jane Alexander • Sue Jean Kim • Carson Elrod • Geraldine Hughes • Adam Driver • Kelly Hutchinson • Jeanine Serralles • Zach Appelman • Bob Balaban • Frankie Faison • Halley Feiffer • Emily Bergl • Jay O. Sanders • Debargo Sanyal • Heidi Schreck • J. Smith-Cameron • Aidan Quinn • Jean Smart • David Rasche • Jack Wetherall • Merritt Wever • Julie White • Frank Wood • Karen Ziemba • Kathleen Turner • Brandon Uranowitz • Kate Jennings Grant • Lisa Joyce • Bill Buell • Caitlin FitzGerald • Peter Friedman • Arnie Burton • Aaron Clifton Moten • Chris Cooper • Will Dagger • Patch Darragh • Hope Davis • Olympia Dukakis • Mamie Gummer • Julie Halston • Josh Hamilton • Harriet Harris • Jenn Harris • Jessica Hecht • Rick Holmes • Craig muMz Grant • Jodi Long • Matthew Maher • Peter Maloney • Debra Monk • Gregg Mozgala • Alfredo Narciso • Laila Robins • Matthew Saldivar • Sarah Sokolovic • Amy Staats • Robert Stanton • Callie Thorne • Walter Bobbie • Rachel Chavkin • Amelia Roper • David Ives • Sakina Jaffrey • Moritz von Stuelpnagel • Knud Adams • Ken Urban • Taylor Trensch • Hank Azaria
Jane Kaczmarek • Margo Martindale • Lisa Emery • Michael Esper • Jim Dale • Audra McDonald • Michelle Williams • Dominique Morisseau • Jesse Eisenberg • John Lithgow • Tony Shalhoub • Danny DeVito • William Jackson Harper • Sam Waterston • Rosie Perez • Amy Ryan • Michael C. Hall • Marisa Tomei • John Leguizamo • J. Alphonse Nicholson • David Harbour • Gabriel Ebert • Tonya Pinkins • Daphne Rubin-Vega • Timothée Chalamet • Dana Ivey • John Douglas Thompson • Richard Kind • Ciaran Hinds • Denis O’Hare • Bobby Cannavale • Steven Boyer • Nitya Vidyasagar • Bobby Moreno • Quincy Tyler Bernstine • Martha Plimpton • Judy Gold • Scott Adsit • Carol Kane • Hamish Linklater • Michael Stuhlbarg • Kristine Nielsen • Molly Bernard • April Matthis • Susie Essman • Louisa Krause • Condola Rashad • Zoe Kazan • Scarlett Strallen • Melanie Nicholls-King • Tom Alan Robbins • Len Cariou • Lois Smith • Michael Urie • Celia Keenan-Bolger • Stephen Lang • Bill Irwin • Eisa Davis • Jeremy Shamos • Rupert Friend • David Furr • Marsha Mason • Elizabeth Ashley • Ed Asner • Liv Rooth • Peter Jacobson • Tracee Chimo • Lucy DeVito • Jane Krakowski • Jane Alexander • Sue Jean Kim • Carson Elrod • Geraldine Hughes • Adam Driver • Kelly Hutchinson • Jeanine Serralles • Zach Appelman • Bob Balaban • Frankie Faison • Halley Feiffer • Emily Bergl • Jay O. Sanders • Debargo Sanyal • Heidi Schreck • J. Smith-Cameron • Aidan Quinn • Jean Smart • David Rasche • Jack Wetherall • Merritt Wever • Julie White • Frank Wood • Karen Ziemba • Kathleen Turner • Brandon Uranowitz • Kate Jennings Grant • Lisa Joyce • Bill Buell • Caitlin FitzGerald • Peter Friedman • Arnie Burton • Aaron Clifton Moten • Chris Cooper • Will Dagger • Patch Darragh • Hope Davis • Olympia Dukakis • Mamie Gummer • Julie Halston • Josh Hamilton • Harriet Harris • Jenn Harris • Jessica Hecht • Rick Holmes • Craig muMz Grant • Jodi Long • Matthew Maher • Peter Maloney • Debra Monk • Gregg Mozgala • Alfredo Narciso • Laila Robins • Matthew Saldivar • Sarah Sokolovic • Amy Staats • Robert Stanton • Callie Thorne • Walter Bobbie • Rachel Chavkin • Amelia Roper • David Ives • Sakina Jaffrey • Moritz von Stuelpnagel • Knud Adams • Ken Urban • Taylor Trensch • Hank Azaria
OUR ARTISTS
Audra McDonald recording Poof! by Lynn Nottage.
John Lithgow recording If You Win by Emily Chadick Weiss.
Jeremy Shamos and Steven Boyer recording Fake News by Doug Wright.
Ngozi Anyanwu and Whitney White recording G.O.A.T. by Ngozi Anyanwu.
April Matthis recording G.O.A.T. by Ngozi Anyanwu.
Amy Ryan, Arlene Hutton, Gaye Taylor Upchurch, and Michael Stuhlbarg in the studio for Closing Costs by Arlene Hutton.
This month’s highlights
Creepy comedies to die for.
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Tech Demons
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Owner Occupy
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The Blizzard
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"Playing on Air gives discerning listeners a bite-size opportunity to enjoy some of the best talent in American theatre today."
Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros, playwright and Pulitzer Prize finalist
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"No one else does this kind of work, which Playing on Air has been excelling at for years. They occupy an important place in American playwriting."
Lloyd Suh, playwright and Pulitzer Prize finalist
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“It’s so intimate to have actors whispering in your ear and creating a whole world that you get to imagine whenever you are receptive and free. And I think that’s very important to me and very important for a lot of people.”
John Patrick Shanley, Pulitzer-, Tony-, and Oscar-winning playwright
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“[Playing on Air’s] recorded short plays are always wonderful ways to introduce new audiences to theater.”
Tonya Pinkins, Tony-winning actress
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"Playing on Air is a phenomenal endeavor that seamlessly brings the finest playwrights and actors to a large and diverse audience with the utmost grace."
Beth Henley, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
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“Playing on Air is like pickup basketball, but with NBA players–people operating at extremely high levels.”
David Auburn, Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright
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“Playing on Air does something remarkable for playwrights–it gives a new, unexpected life to our plays. Hearing your script performed . . . by such stellar actors is like having one of those dreams in which you discover your house has additional rooms.”
Sheri Wilner, playwright
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