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Sarah and Will's little podcast about big plays! Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaywrights/support

William Wright


    • Feb 14, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 1h 19m AVG DURATION
    • 30 EPISODES


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    Everyman by Anonymous

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2022 48:16


    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

    Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2022 87:45


    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

    It's Only a Play by Terrance McNally

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2022 92:22


    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 Addams Family Musical ft. Seemingly Ordinary Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2022 67:45


    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

    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2022 76:18


    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

    You Can't Take it With You by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2022 63:53


    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

    Oslo by J.T. Rogers

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2022 73:39


    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

    Picnic by William Inge

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2021 91:05


    "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

    Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2021 81:02


    "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: Osage County by Tracy Letts

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2021 103:46


    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

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 63:59


    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

    Proof by David Auburn

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2021 90:39


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

    Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Part II by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2021 87:54


    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

    Woyzeck by Georg Buchner

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2020 126:11


    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

    Radium Girls by DW Gregory

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2020 85:36


    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

    The Crucible by Arthur Miller

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2020 76:39


    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

    What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2020 70:27


    "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

    Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Part I by JK Rowling

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2020 110:30


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

    Our Town by Thornton Wilder

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2020 87:08


    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

    Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2020 108:06


    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

    The Flick by Annie Baker

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2020 86:09


    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

    Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2020 79:58


    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

    How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2020 70:48


    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

    The Christians by Lucas Hnath

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2020 74:07


    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

    To be continued...

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2020 2:16


    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

    Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2020 91:46


    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

    Straight White Men by Young Jean Lee

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2020 80:19


    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

    True West by Sam Shepard

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2020 84:34


    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

    Betrayal by Harold Pinter

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2020 64:45


    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

    The Humans by Stephen Karam

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2020 66:50


    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

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