The PlayWrights

The PlayWrights is a podcast all about plays! Sarah and Will take you through a variety of titles by award-winning playwrights. We talk about our love of theatre, the secrets of production and acting and much more! It's a great time over here at The PlayWrights! This week we take a look at the National Theatre's 2015 production of EVERYMAN starring Chiwetel Ejiorfor! It's certainly...interesting. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

The PlayWrights is a podcast all about plays! Sarah and Will take you through a variety of titles by award-winning playwrights.  We talk about our love of theatre, the secrets of production and acting and much more! It's a great time over here at The PlayWrights! This week we are looking at the father of modern drama, Henrik Ibsen and his incendiary psychological analysis of Hedda Gabbler.  Is she a raving lunatic who drives the people around her to early graves or is she a radical individualist who we all should aspire to become?  You decide! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

The PlayWrights is a podcast all about plays! Sarah and Will take you through a variety of titles by award-winning playwrights.  We talk about our love of theatre, the secrets of production and acting and much more! It's a great time over here at The PlayWrights! This week, Sam Smeltzer joins the pod! He's back to talk about his trip to NYC way back in 2014.  He saw the Broadway Revival of It's Only a Play starring Matthew Broderick, Martin Short and (kind of) Nathan Lane! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

The PlayWrights is a podcast all about plays! Sarah and Will take you through a variety of titles by award-winning playwrights.  We talk about our love of theatre, the secrets of production and acting and much more! It's a great time over here at The PlayWrights! Come on over and join us! We have a special treat this week! A few weeks ago, Sarah had the pleasure of sitting down with Tim Wuebker, host of the podcast Seemingly Ordinary.  Tim asked her all sorts of questions about her production of The Addams Family that she directed in the Fall of 2021! If you liked this, give Seemingly Ordinary a listen, Tim interviews all sorts of awesome people! Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

The PlayWrights is a podcast all about plays! Sarah and Will take you through a variety of titles by award-winning playwrights. We talk about our love of theatre, the secrets of production and acting and much more! It's a great time over here at The PlayWrights! Come on over and join us! Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee is confusing, dark, funny and poignant all at the same time. Sarah and Will attempt to say something profound about this play that basically everyone has commented upon before them. Will they succeed? Are YOU afraid of Virginia Woolf? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

The PlayWrights is a podcast all about plays! Sarah and Will take you through a variety of titles by award-winning playwrights. We talk about our love of theatre, the secrets of production and acting and much more! It's a great time over here at The PlayWrights! Come on over and join us! This week's episode is all about the classic comedy, You Can't Take it With You. The Sycamores are a family that's a bit off-kilter to the rest of the world. But are they? Are they crazy or do they just do what makes them happy? You decide! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

Peace in the Middle East? A Norwegian couple thinks its possible... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

"I always wonder, maybe some wonderful person is getting off here, just by accident, and he'll come into the dime store for something and see me behind the counter, and he'll study me very strangely and then decide I'm just the person they're looking for..." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

"For never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

August in Osage County. Hot, dry and full of intense familial problems brought on by pills and incest. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

Tennessee Williams' American Classic! Check out our Youtube Channel! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

2+2 = ??? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

We're back baby!! After a much needed hiatus, we bring you the long awaited follow up to our most popular episode! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

You may have never heard of this dramatic fragment from 19th century Germany but that doesn't mean you haven't felt its influence. Patrick Graham is our operatic guest! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

A tragic story that is poorly written. Thanks for being on with us Bubba! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

I saw the PlayWrights with the devil! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

Yer a wizard, Harry. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

In which Sarah and Will discuss the true American Classic, Our Town by Thornton Wilder --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

Who's that? Sam Smeltzer? Sarah's brother joins the pod to talk about the fascinating adaptation of the Greek myth. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

Sarah and Will explore Annie Baker's wonderful and absorbing drama! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

We have a new guest! Andrew Wright, our best man, and Will's brother brings his unique insight to the pod as we discuss Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

In which Sarah and Will discuss the Pulitzer Prize winning drama, How I Learned to Drive.   Warning: this play deals with sexual abuse of minors.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

Sarah and Will are back for Season 2 and it starts with the incendiary drama, The Christians. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

We have LOVED creating this podcast! We are in a bit of a transitional phase right now so we will be back in a week or two with new episodes! Rate us, review us and leave a voice message! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

The PlayWrights discuss this beautifully modern piece with their dear friend and colleague, Clare Tassinari! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

Sarah and Will explore the first play to arrive on Broadway that was written by a woman from Korea.  It is a magnificent exploration of race, privilege and emotion.  Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

Sarah, Will and our special guest Gaines Semler discuss the American classic, True West, by Sam Shepard. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

Will and Sarah discuss the modern masterpiece, Betrayal, by Harold Pinter. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

Sarah and Will discuss Stephen Karam's Tony Award winning play, The Humans. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support