Playful Musings is a new podcast in which host Kristin Post, sometimes accompanied by a guest, will share an overview of a play each week. Each episode will look briefly at key characters, introduce the basic plot, and highlight favorite lines.
Playful Musings host, Kristin Post, gives an overview of the play In The Matter Of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Heinar Kipphardt.
Guest Nathan Pittack joins me this week as we discuss Whales Outside the Window by Lydia Stewart.
Playful Musings host, Kristin Post, gives an update on the plans for the podcast for 2023.
Playful Musings host, Kristin Post, reads several monologues for women from classic theatre literature. Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1519 Portia from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1522 Nora from A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2542 Mrs. Higgins from Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3825 Lady Bracknell from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/844 Maurya from Riders to the Sea by J. M. Synge https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/994 Jocasta from Oedipus the King by Sophocles https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31 Antigone from Antigone by Sophocles https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31 Mrs. Cheveley from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/885 Medea from Medea by Euripides https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35451 Helena from Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1756 Mrs. Keeney from Ile by Eugene O'Neill https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16435
Playful Musings host, Kristin Post, reads several monologues for men from classic theatre literature. Benedick from Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1519 Antony from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1522 Judge Brack from Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4093 Helmer from A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2542 Henry Higgins from Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3825 Algernon from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/844 Teiresias from Oedipus the King by Sophocles https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31 Creon from Antigone by Sophocles https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31 Lord Goring from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/885 Jason from Medea by Euripides https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35451 Cyrano from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1254 Faustus from The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/779
Guest Markel Toler joins me this week as we discuss Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.
Guest David Schwingle joins me this week as we discuss The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus.
Playful Musings host, Kristin Post, gives an overview of the play Good With People by David Harrower.
Guest Karie Jensen joins me on set this week as we discuss Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire.
Guest Callie Summer joins me this week as we discuss Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie.
Guest Sam Stephens joins me this week as we discuss Philoctetes by Sophocles.
Playful Musings host, Kristin Post, gives an overview of the play The Welkin by Lucy Kirkwood.
Guest John Ellis joins me this week as we have a theatre & theology discussion with a focus on the artist as prophet.
Guest Isaac Stephens joins me this week as we discuss Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare.
Playful Musings host, Kristin Post, gives an overview of the play Impromptu by Tad Mosel.
Guest Sarah Estelle joins me this week as we discuss We Are Here by Tracy Thorne.
Playful Musings host, Kristin Post, gives an overview of the play The Corn Is Green by Emlyn Williams.
Guest Bethany Holden joins me this week as we discuss The Crucible by Arthur Miller.
Guest Paul Michael Garrison joins me this week as we discuss The Women by Clare Boothe Luce.
Playful Musings host, Kristin Post, gives an overview of the play Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
Guest Matt Estelle joins me this week as we discuss The Odd Couple by Neil Simon.
Guest Sam Stephens joins me this week as we discuss The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams.
Guest Nathan Samuel Young joins me this week as we discuss Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery.
Playful Musings host, Kristin Post, gives an overview of the play A Doll's House Part 2 by Lucas Hnath.
Playful Musings host, Kristin Post, gives an overview of the play Medea by Euripides, in a new version by Rachel Cusk.
Guest Emily Arcuri joins me this week as we discuss The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan.
Guest John Ellis joins me this week as we have a theatre & theology discussion with a focus on narrative.
Guest Emma Galloway Stephens joins me this week as we discuss The Sandbox by Edward Albee.
Guest Melissa Gibson joins me this week as we discuss Wit by Margaret Edson.
Playful Musings host, Kristin Post, gives an overview of the play Wittenberg by David Davalos.
Guest Jeffrey Stegall joins me this week as we discuss Love's Labor's Lost by William Shakespeare.
Guest Janie Board joins me this week as we discuss Sea Wall by Simon Stephens.
Playful Musings host, Kristin Post, gives an overview of the play Wakey, Wakey by Will Eno.
Guest Carey Nelson joins me this week as we discuss Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov.
Playful Musings host, Kristin Post, gives an overview of the play Mother of the Maid by Jane Anderson.
Guest John Ellis joins me this week as we have a theatre & theology discussion with a focus on absurdism.
Guest Anna Brown joins me this week as we discuss These Shining Lives by Melanie Marnich.
Guest Katrina Gass joins me this week as we discuss Pack of Lies by Hugh Whitemore.
Guest Elizabeth Nelson joins me this week as we discuss The Prisoner of Second Avenue by Neil Simon.
Playful Musings host, Kristin Post, gives an overview of the play Jane Eyre, based on the novel by Charlotte Brontë and devised by the original company.
Guest Sarah Estelle joins me this week as we discuss An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley.
Guest Karie Jensen joins me on set this week as we discuss The Outside by Susan Glaspell.
Guest Shelley Redlinger joins me this week as we discuss Red by John Logan.
Playful Musings host, Kristin Post, gives an overview of the play Voices by Richard Lortz.
Guest Lindsay Morgan Bean joins me this week as we discuss Tigers Be Still by Kim Rosenstock.
Guest Austin Phillips joins me this week as we discuss Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling.
Guest Isaac Stephens joins me this week as we discuss 'Night Mother by Marsha Norman.
Playful Musings host, Kristin Post, gives an overview of the play Salomé by Oscar Wilde.
Guest Karen Garbalosa joins me this week as we discuss Almost, Maine by John Cariani.
Guest Elizabeth Nelson joins me this week as we discuss Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Guest Stephanie Schlosser joins me this week as we discuss Oscar Wilde's play, The Importance of Being Earnest.