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.
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Sep 28, 2026 · 32:36
Lucius berates his father for killing his own son, and Titus’s brother Marcus implores him to allow them to bury Mutius in the family tomb. Titus grudgingly agrees to it and…
Sep 21, 2026 · 31:44
In the wake of the Emperor’s death, his two sons–Saturninus (the eldest) and Bassianus (the younger, more popular)--argue over who should rule Rome, as their armed supporters…
Sep 14, 2026 · 3:07
Next Chapter Podcasts presents Shakespeare’s bloodiest tragedy: a brutal revenge thriller that descends into a savage spiral of betrayal, mutilation and cannibalism, performed by…
Sep 7, 2026 · 30:46
On Labor Day, Play On Podcasts presents the pilot episode from our 11th series "Love's Labour's Lost". Listen to the full series and learn more here. The King of Navarre gathers…
Aug 31, 2026 · 43:10
We’re bringing you a preview of the new season of Death of An Artist. In February 2024, celebrated children’s book author and illustrator Petra Mathers and her husband,…
Aug 24, 2026 · 2:56:39
***Complete our listener survey for a chance to win a $50 gift card! *** Next Chapter Podcasts presents the complete Play On Podcast series, Troilus and…
Aug 17, 2026 · 34:38
***Complete our listener survey for a chance to win a $50 gift card! *** Hector’s wife, Andromache, and his sister, Cassandra, beg him not to fight,…
Aug 10, 2026 · 24:55
***Complete our listener survey for a chance to win a $50 gift card! *** Patroclus trades insults with Thersites until Achilles breaks it up with news…
Aug 3, 2026 · 32:58
***Complete our listener survey for a chance to win a $50 gift card! *** As dawn breaks, the lovers bid each other a tearful farewell, exchanging love…
Jul 27, 2026 · 37:12
***Complete our listener survey for a chance to win a $50 gift card! *** Just as Troilus and Cressida finally unite, her father Calchas, a traitor who…
Jul 20, 2026 · 34:14
***Complete our listener survey for a chance to win a $50 gift card! *** Thersites delights in insulting Patroclus, Achilles, Agamemnon and everyone they…
Jul 13, 2026 · 34:28
***Complete our listener survey for a chance to win a $50 gift card! *** As Agamemnon and his Generals argue in the Greek camp, the Trojan Aeneas arrives to…
Jul 6, 2026 · 1:00:13
***Complete our listener survey for a chance to win a $50 gift card! *** “There are no good guys.” Renowned theatremaker Lillian Groag explains why “Troilus and…
Jun 29, 2026 · 35:01
***Complete our listener survey for a chance to win a $50 gift card! *** The lovesick Trojan prince Troilus is so consumed by his infatuation with Cressida that he…
Jun 22, 2026 · 1:21
***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”…
Jun 15, 2026 · 48:56
***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…
Jun 8, 2026 · 1:05:29
***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…
Jun 1, 2026 · 55:42
***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…
May 25, 2026 · 51:45
***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…
May 18, 2026 · 38:23
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,…
May 11, 2026 · 43:16
***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…
May 4, 2026 · 53:58
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Apr 27, 2026 · 57:09
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Apr 20, 2026 · 54:06
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Apr 13, 2026 · 3:15:03
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Apr 6, 2026 · 32:02
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Mar 30, 2026 · 36:56
***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…
Mar 23, 2026 · 36:36
***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…
Mar 16, 2026 · 38:52
***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…
Mar 9, 2026 · 37:44
***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…
Mar 5, 2026 · 1:11:51
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…
Mar 2, 2026 · 37:35
***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 has her doctor,…
Feb 23, 2026 · 32:11
***This show is brought to you by Quince. Go to http://quince.com/playonpod for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.*** A writer describes the…
Feb 16, 2026 · 1:27
NEXT CHAPTER PODCASTS PRESENTS THE PLAY ON PODCAST SERIES, “CYMBELINE” SHAKESPEARE’S ROMANTIC FAIRY TALE OF SECRET MARRIAGE, BANISHMENT, FALSE ACCUSATIONS, MISTAKEN IDENTITIES,…
Feb 9, 2026 · 47:13
***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…
Feb 5, 2026 · 26:13
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…
Feb 2, 2026 · 1:00:25
***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…
Jan 26, 2026 · 2:43:50
***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…
Jan 19, 2026 · 31:29
***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…
Jan 12, 2026 · 26:34
***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…
Jan 5, 2026 · 27:57
***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…
Dec 29, 2025 · 32:15
***This show is brought to you by Quince. Go to http://quince.com/playonpod for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.*** Benedick and Beatrice are teased…
Dec 22, 2025 · 32:16
***This show is brought to you by Quince. Go to http://quince.com/playonpod for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.*** Borachio and Don John conspire to…
Dec 15, 2025 · 31:08
***This show is brought to you by Quince. Go to http://quince.com/playonpod for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.*** Beatrice jokes at dinner about the…
Dec 8, 2025 · 30:00
***This show is brought to you by Quince. Go to http://quince.com/playonpod for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.*** On a pier in Port De Toulon, France, not…
Dec 1, 2025 · 1:07
Set in the French Riviera at the height of post-war euphoria, Shakespeare’s romantic comedy about bantering rivals who become reluctant lovers and youthful sweethearts who are…
Nov 24, 2025 · 47:45
“When you’re disabled you have to use underhanded means to get what you want”: Actor Mat Fraser talks about why the character of Richard III isn’t much of a leap for him, his…
Nov 17, 2025 · 3:20:26
***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…
Nov 10, 2025 · 40:32
***This show is brought to you by Quince. Go to http://quince.com/playonpod for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.*** King Richard gets an onslaught of bad news…
Nov 3, 2025 · 38:54
***This show is brought to you by Quince. Go to http://quince.com/playonpod for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.*** Richard hires the murderer Tyrell to finish…
Oct 27, 2025 · 34:52
***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 parking garage outside The Tower,…
Oct 20, 2025 · 31:58
***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 young Prince Edward arrives at The Temple…
Oct 13, 2025 · 34:40
Inside the Tower, Clarence begs for his life. Later, at the Gilman DIY Music Venue, King Edward secures a reluctant peace between his family’s rival factions, but collapses in…
Oct 6, 2025 · 36:58
Queen Elizabeth replays a tape of her husband King Edward’s band as she obsesses over his failing health. Her brother, Lord Rivers, tries to comfort her, as do her two sons from…
Sep 29, 2025 · 39:34
As his older brother, the newly crowned King Edward, weakens with illness, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, lays out his plans to take the throne. He frames his brother Clarence for…
Sep 22, 2025 · 1:05
Shakespeare’s tragedy about an unwelcome outsider who uses his genius to destroy his enemies before they destroy him. Translated into modern English verse by Migdalia Cruz and…
Sep 15, 2025 · 1:05:20
In honor of actor Tramell Tillman becoming the first ever African American man to win an Emmy as the best supporting actor in a drama series, Next Chapter Podcasts proudly…
Sep 8, 2025 · 1:00:06
“It’s an absolute mess!” Kenneth Cavander, Andy Wolk and Anthony Cochrane talk about the history, relevance, triumphs and challenges of creating a “Timon” for our times. Learn…
Sep 1, 2025 · 2:26:24
Next Chapter Podcasts presents the complete Play On Podcast series, Timon of Athens, in its entirety. The PLAY ON PODCAST SERIES, “TIMON OF ATHENS”, was written by WILLIAM…
Aug 25, 2025 · 33:41
The Senators arrive at Timon’s cave to beg forgiveness in exchange for funds. Flavia implores her master to let her serve him. Timon writes his epitaph. Alcibiades storms Athens…
Aug 18, 2025 · 32:16
Alcibiades leads his troops past Timon’s hideout in the wilderness, prompting a barrage of insults and mockery from the malcontent. But when Timon learns Alcibiades is planning…
Aug 15, 2025 · 48:15
“Tolerance is a Two-Way Street”: Mental health professional Mohammed Abba-Aji explores the themes in “runboyrun” as a way of opening up paths to healing the traumas refugees…
Aug 11, 2025 · 31:23
Timon leaves Athens with his curses, strips himself bare and goes into the wilderness. As hunger sets in, he digs for a root to eat and discovers a pile of gold hidden…
Aug 4, 2025 · 27:15
Timon throws one more party before withdrawing from society, as Alcibiades pleads for the life of a fellow soldier before the Senate. The PLAY ON PODCAST SERIES, “TIMON OF…
Jul 28, 2025 · 31:03
Flavia presents Timon with the total due on all his debts. He turns to his friends for help. One by one, they deny him. Flavia does her best to keep his creditors at bay, but…
Jul 21, 2025 · 35:57
Everyone who’s anyone in Athens shows up to Timon’s banquet, reveling in the excesses of his generosity and vying for favor in his esteem. The only unwelcome guest is Apemantus,…
Jul 18, 2025 · 1:37
Shakespeare’s tragedy about a wealthy Athenian who thinks money can buy him friends. Translated into modern English verse by Kenneth Cavander and directed by Andy Wolk, with…
Jul 14, 2025 · 43:36
Past and present converge as Disciple and Abasiama reach their breaking point. The Huntington continues the sweeping nine-play Ufot Family Cycle and announces plans for…
Jul 7, 2025 · 54:19
“Your ancestors are there with you”: Abigail Onwunali and Christopher Edwards describe the alchemy of storytelling, the painful history of the Nigerian Civil War, the world of…
Jun 30, 2025 · 36:20
Abasiama tries to keep Disciple in the present as he relives his experiences in war-torn Nigeria. The Huntington continues the sweeping nine-play Ufot Family Cycle and announces…
Jun 23, 2025 · 41:56
“This is us. These are our neighbors”. Mfoniso Udofia and Kevin Becerra talk with Michael Goodfriend about the process of making “runboyrun” meaningful for listeners in Boston…
Jun 16, 2025 · 48:31
After a humiliating day teaching at the local community college in Worcester, Massachusetts, Disciple tries to focus on his writing but is pulled by his past into another…
Jun 11, 2025 · 1:08
Next Chapter Podcasts and Huntington Theater present Mfoniso Udofia's haunting series "runboyrun." What happens when war continues inside the body of a survivor? Learn more about…
Jun 9, 2025 · 3:08:39
In honor of sound designer and composer Palmer Hefferan's recent Tony nomination, Next Chapter Podcasts presents her work on the Play On Podcast series, CORIOLANUS, in its…
Jun 2, 2025 · 2:40:02
In honor of director Harry Lennix and actor Glenn Davis' recent Tony nominations for their currenly running Broadway show 'Purpose,' Next Chapter Podcasts presents their…
May 26, 2025 · 3:35:37
In honor of sound designer Lindsay Jones's recent Webby victory for his work on the series, Next Chapter Podcasts presents the complete Play On Podcast series, OTHELLO, in its…
May 12, 2025 · 48:28
Discover The Actor’s Instrument, a podcast for actors dedicated to guiding listeners through the complexities of the entertainment industry. Join host and actor Hassiem Muhammad…
May 5, 2025 · 1:05:29
“What happens if we talk?” Mfoniso Udofia digs into the tough questions raised by her brutal translation of OTHELLO, with discussions about dispossession, marginalization,…
Apr 28, 2025 · 45:56
“I like them better in Shrew!” Allen Gilmore and Susannah Rogers compare notes on playing Kate and Petruchio in “The Taming of the Shrew” and “Shrew!” Plus, what the word obey…
Apr 21, 2025 · 2:22:20
Next Chapter Podcasts presents the complete Play On Podcast series, Shrew!, in its entirety. The PLAY ON PODCAST SERIES, “SHREW!”, was written by AMY FREED and directed by ART…
Apr 14, 2025 · 30:10
Lucentio and Bianca hurry to meet the priest Biondello bribed to perform the marriage. Gremio greets Petruchio, Katherine, Grumio and the real Vincentio at Lucentio’s house,…
Apr 7, 2025 · 28:38
Seeing he has no chance against Lucentio (AKA “Cambio”), Hortensio drops his “Licio” disguise and swears off women. Biondello, meanwhile, has found an old merchant who will…
Mar 31, 2025 · 32:48
Katherine reluctantly goes to church to be married, only to learn through an elaborate pantomime performed by Grumio and Biondello that Petruchio is running late. Finally, a…
Mar 24, 2025 · 28:57
Petruchio negotiates with Baptista for Katherine’s hand until Licio emerges from his tutoring session bruised and battered. It only strengthens Petruchio’s resolve to woo…
Mar 17, 2025 · 25:32
Petruchio tells Hortensio he’s come to Padua to find a partner to give him renewed life after grieving the loss of his first wife. Hortensio tells him about Baptista’s daughter,…
Mar 10, 2025 · 26:12
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…
Mar 3, 2025 · 49:14
“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…
Feb 24, 2025 · 0:56
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.…
Feb 17, 2025 · 45:46
“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…
Feb 10, 2025 · 59:55
“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…
Feb 3, 2025 · 55:33
“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…
Jan 27, 2025 · 53:48
“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…
Jan 20, 2025 · 39:29
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…
Jan 17, 2025 · 53:51
“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…
Jan 6, 2025 · 57:03
“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…
Jan 3, 2025 · 45:21
“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…
Jan 3, 2025 · 25:33
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…
Dec 30, 2024 · 55:33
“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…
Dec 23, 2024 · 56:27
“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…
Dec 16, 2024 · 24:20
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…
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