The SBTA now offers its repertory of radio productions for free download. Not “old-time radio,” these are broadcast presentations of some of the world’s most gifted classic and contemporary playwrights: Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Luigi Pirandello, Susan Glaspell, George Kelly, Noel Coward, Harold Pinter, Vaclav Havel, Eric Bentley, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Frank Gilroy, Jason Miller, Benjamin Bettenbender, Laura Cahill, Murray Schisgal, etc., etc. Each week one new radio comedy/drama will be podcast here. Tune in! You may discover gems you never knew existed!      Production 12: Relative Strangers, by Sheri Wilner (Comedy-Drama) Starring Nancy Kawalek, Caitlin Ferrara, Marjorie Wass and John Quimby [Playing Time: 29:10] (Everyone has to have a Mom — one way or another!) Sheri Wilner has had plays produced at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Guthrie Theater, Summer Play Festival, Naked Angels, Contemporary American Theater Festival, New Georges, City Theatre, the Illusion Theater and elsewhere.  She has been awarded the 2007 Bush Artist Fellowship, two Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellowships, and two Heideman Awards granted by the Actors Theatre of Louisville for her plays Labor Day and Bake Off.  Her work has been published in many anthologies including New Playwrights: The Best New Plays of 1999; The Best One-Act Plays from the Women’s Project and The Best American Short Plays 2000-2001. Her screenplay “Sugar Fix” is an adaptation of Bake Off.  Other plays include Father Joy, Equilibrium and Bushesteia.  She received her MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University and divides her time between Minneapolis and New York City. FROM THE MINDS OF PLAYWRIGHTS: Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. - Euripides Less

Joanne interviews Blair Singer, writer of the play ‘The Most Damaging Wound’ at Manhattan Theatre Source in New York City. Music: Jackie and Flow by Podington Bear. Less

  The SBTA now offers its repertory of radio productions for free download. Not “old-time radio,” these are broadcast presentations of some of the world’s most gifted classic and contemporary playwrights: Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Luigi Pirandello, Susan Glaspell, George Kelly, Noel Coward, Harold Pinter, Vaclav Havel, Eric Bentley, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Frank Gilroy, Jason Miller, Benjamin Bettenbender, Laura Cahill, Murray Schisgal, etc., etc. Each week one new radio comedy/drama will be podcast here. Tune in! You may discover gems you never knew existed!      Production 11: The Table, by Ida Fink (Drama) Starring William Smithers, George Backman, Sylvia Short, Stan Glenn and Louise Latham [Playing Time: 50:51] (They lived through Poland 1941- but will it matter?) Ida Fink was born in Zbaraz , Poland (now in the Ukraine ) in 1921. She spent 1941-42 in the ghetto there during the Nazi occupation, and escaped using forged identity papers. She has lived in Israel since 1957. A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (which includes “The Table”) was published in Polish in 1983. Two years later it received the first Anne Frank Prize for Literature. The English translation, by Madeline Levine and Francine Prose, appeared in 1987 and was awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. Ms. Finks’s short stories discuss the terrible choices, or lack thereof, that Jews faced during the Nazi period as well as the hardships that survivors faced following the war. Her other works include The Journey (1990) and Traces (1996).   FROM THE MIND OF PLAYWRIGHTS: Less

Building the Ultimate Home Theater, Part two, goes into using a PlayStation 3 to playback all your media content in your living room Less

    The SBTA now offers its repertory of radio productions for free download.  Not “old-time radio,” these are broadcast presentations of some of the world’s most gifted classic and contemporary playwrights: Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Luigi Pirandello, Susan Glaspell, George Kelly, Noel Coward, Harold Pinter, Vaclav Havel, Eric Bentley, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Frank Gilroy, Jason Miller, Benjamin Bettenbender, Laura Cahill, Murray Schisgal, etc., etc. Each week one new radio comedy/drama will be podcast here. Tune in! You may discover gems you never knew existed!                                                Production 10: The Way to Miami, by Donald Steele (Comedy-Drama) Starring William Smithers and Gretchen Evans [Playing Time: 29:26] (A woman has a right to change her mind — even on moving day??) Donald Steele is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a Fellow of the MacDowell Colony. He is a graduate of Hope College and the University of Iowa. His work has been performed in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. His full length play Graceland was initially produced at the American Stage festival. He has written many one-act plays including his one-woman piece Miracle at the Del Mar Boulevard Beauty Salon. In 1998 The Way to Miami (our current podcast) was a winner in the 23rd Annual Off-Off Broadway Festival. Other plays: Mother’s Day, Life Support, Going to the Chapel, The Boys They Left Behind.   Less

  The SBTA now offers its repertory of radio productions for free download. Not “old-time radio,” these are broadcast presentations of some of the world’s most gifted classic and contemporary playwrights: Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Luigi Pirandello, Susan Glaspell, George Kelly, Noel Coward, Harold Pinter, Vaclav Havel, Eric Bentley, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Frank Gilroy, Jason Miller, Benjamin Bettenbender, Laura Cahill, Murray Schisgal, etc., etc. Each week one new radio comedy/drama will be podcast here. Tune in! You may discover gems you never knew existed!      Production 10: The Way to Miami, by Donald Steele (Comedy-Drama) Starring William Smithers and Gretchen Evans [Playing Time: 29:26] (A woman has the right to change her mind — even on moving day??) Donald Steele is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a Fellow of the MacDowell Colony. He is a graduate of Hope College and the University of Iowa. His work has been performed in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. His full length play Graceland was initially produced at the American Stage festival. He has written many one-act plays including his one-woman piece Miracle at the Del Mar Boulevard Beauty Salon. In 1998 The Way to Miami (our current podcast) was a winner in the 23rd Annual Off-Off Broadway Festival. Other plays: Mother’s Day, Life Support, Going to the Chapel, The Boys They Left Behind. Less

http://geeks.pirillo.com - http://live.pirillo.com - Have you set up a home theater yet? I finally had the opportunity to finish our home theater system that was started when we moved in. It's a chore to pick the right equipment and set up the right environment. I'm happy with how it turned out, though. http://chris.pirillo.com Distributed by Tubemogul. Less

This week on Etsy How-Tuesday, Norma AKA crankbunny shows us how to make spooky shadow puppets for Hallow's Eve! MAUHAHAH! crankbunny has provided the templates for making her signature Gravestone Shadow Puppet and Dead Guy Shadow Puppet. Less

This week on Etsy How-Tuesday, Norma AKA crankbunny shows us how to make spooky shadow puppets for Hallow's Eve! MAUHAHAH! crankbunny has provided the templates for making her signature Gravestone Shadow Puppet and Dead Guy Shadow Puppet. Less

  The SBTA now offers its repertory of radio productions for free download. Not “old-time radio,” these are broadcast presentations of some of the world’s most gifted classic and contemporary playwrights: Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Luigi Pirandello, Susan Glaspell, George Kelly, Noel Coward, Harold Pinter, Vaclav Havel, Eric Bentley, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Frank Gilroy, Jason Miller, Benjamin Bettenbender, Laura Cahill, Murray Schisgal and many others. Each week one new radio comedy/drama will be podcast here. Tune in! You may discover gems you never knew existed!      Production 9: First Love, by Murray Schisgal (Comedy) Starring Nancy Kawalek and Don Stewart [Playing Time: 43:42] (An ex-husband turns up, complete with empty soda bottles and script ideas.) Murray Schisgal, born in 1926, is an award-winning American playwright and screenwriter. A native New Yorker, Schisgal won his first recognition for the 1963 off-Broadway double-bill The Typists and The Tiger, which won him the Drama Desk Award. His 1965 Broadway debut, Luv, earned him Tony Award nominations for Best Play and Best Author of a Play. Other plays include: Jimmy Shine, The Chinese and Dr. Fish, An American Millionaire, and All Over Town. He wrote screenplays for “Ducks and Lovers” and “The Tiger Makes Out,” and with Larry Gelbart co-wrote the screenplay for “Tootsie,” for which he was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe and for which he won awards from the New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Teleplays: “The Love Song of Barney Kempinski” and “Natasha Kovolina Pipishinsky.” Fiction: Days and Nights of a French Horn Player.  Less

  The SBTA now offers its repertory of radio productions for free download. Not “old-time radio,” these are broadcast presentations of some of the world’s most gifted classic and contemporary playwrights: Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Luigi Pirandello, Susan Glaspell, George Kelly, Noel Coward, Harold Pinter, Vaclav Havel, Eric Bentley, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Frank Gilroy, Jason Miller, Benjamin Bettenbender, Laura Cahill, Murray Schisgal and many others. Each week one new radio comedy/drama will be podcast here. Tune in! You may discover gems you never knew existed!      Production 8: Trifles, by Susan Glaspell (Drama) Starring Louise Latham, Edie Talt, Larry Williams, David Newton and Braden McKinley [Playing Time: 24:59] (An eerie crime in an isolated farmhouse. Who uncovers the “why”?) Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) was born in Davenport, Iowa and worked as a journalist for the Des Moines Daily News. When her stories began appearing in magazines she gave up the newspaper business. In 1915 she met stage director George Cook; together they founded the Provincetown Players on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a troupe that included Eugene O’Neill and Edna St. Vincent Millay.  It was largely thanks to Glaspell’s intervention that O’Neill’s first plays were performed, and she played a major role in stimulating and encouraging his writing in the following years. Much of her writing is strongly feminist, dealing with the roles that women play, or are forced to play, in society and the relationships between men and women. She wrote more than 50 short stories, nine novels, one biography and eleven plays including Alison’s House for which she recieved the Pulitzer Prize in 1931.Trifles (our current podcast), inspired by a murder she covered while working as a reporter, was produced in 1916 for the Provincetown Playhouse. A year later she rewrote it as the short story “A Jury of Her Peers.” Less

  The SBTA now offers its repertory of radio productions for free download. Not “old-time radio,” these are broadcast presentations of some of the world’s most gifted classic and contemporary playwrights: Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Luigi Pirandello, Susan Glaspell, George Kelly, Noel Coward, Harold Pinter, Vaclav Havel, Eric Bentley, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Frank Gilroy, Jason Miller, Benjamin Bettenbender, Laura Cahill, Murray Schisgal and many others. Each week one new radio comedy/drama will be podcast here. Tune in! You may discover gems you never knew existed!       Production 7: Larry Parks’ Day in Court, by Eric Bentley (Drama) Starring: Dan Gunther, William Smithers, Don Stewart, Braden McKinley, Stan Glenn, Richard Hoag, Tony Miratti, Ross Borden, John Strawn, David Newton and David Brainard. [Playing Time: 59:05] (When international tensions are high, who is a patriot? - who is a traitor? ) Eric Bentley, playwright, critic, editor, translator and cabaret singer, was born in England in 1916 and became an American citizen in 1948. Drama critic for The New Republic from 1952-1956, he authored such works as The Playwright As Thinker, Bernard Shaw, What Is Theatre? and The Life of the Drama. He’s also known for his translations of the plays of Bertholt Brecht (whose work he championed) and Luigi Pirandello, and for his editions of collected plays such as The Classic Theatre. His own plays include Lord Alfred’s Lover and Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?  (from which our current podcast is taken.) In 1998 he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Less

  The SBTA now offers its repertory of radio productions for free download. Not “old-time radio,” these are broadcast presentations of some of the world’s most gifted classic and contemporary playwrights: Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Luigi Pirandello, Susan Glaspell, George Kelly, Noel Coward, Harold Pinter, Vaclav Havel, Eric Bentley, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Frank Gilroy, Jason Miller, Benjamin Bettenbender, Laura Cahill, Murray Schisgal and many others. Each week one new radio comedy/drama will be podcast here. Tune in! You may discover gems you never knew existed!        Production 6: Home, by Laura Cahill (Drama) Starring Bonnie Bartlett and Nancy Kawalek [Playing Time: 23:14] (Thomas Wolfe told us you can’t go there again, but a divorced daughter has to try.) Laura Cahill has written the one-act plays Jersey Girls in the Park and Home (our current podcast) and the full length plays Mercy and Hysterical Blindness. She adapted the last for an HBO Film starring Uma Thurman and Juliette Lewis, for which she received a “Best First Screenplay Award” from Independent Spirit Awards. Her plays have been produced or workshopped at the Vineyard Theater, New Harmony Project, PS NBC, Naked Angels and Ensemble Studio Theatre. She has said, “I’m always fascinated with what [people] really mean to say and what comes out of their mouth.” Less

  The SBTA now offers its repertory of radio productions for free download. Not “old-time radio,” these are broadcast presentations of some of the world’s most gifted classic and contemporary playwrights: Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Luigi Pirandello, Susan Glaspell, George Kelly, Noel Coward, Harold Pinter, Vaclav Havel, Eric Bentley, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Frank Gilroy, Jason Miller, Benjamin Bettenbender, Laura Cahill, Murray Schisgal, etc., etc. Each week one new radio comedy/drama will be podcast here. Tune in! You may discover gems you never knew existed!       Production 5: The Siren Song of Stephen Jay Gould, by Benjamin Bettenbender (Comedy-Drama) Starring William Smithers and Gretchen Evans [Playing Time: 32:25] (Deciding life is pointless after reading Gould’s “Full House,” a man jumps off a bridge. His planning leaves something to be desired.) Benjamin Bettenbender is the author of eight full-length plays and several one-acts. He has had productions in the US and abroad, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, and Wellington, New Zealand. Mr. Bettenbender was a longtime member of the Circle Rep Playwrights Lab, and is currently a member of the Cape Cod Theater Project. He is a graduate of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and lives in New Jersey with his wife, Felice, and their two daughters Less

  The SBTA now offers its repertory of radio productions for free download. Not “old-time radio,” these are broadcast presentations of some of the world’s most gifted classic and contemporary playwrights: Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Luigi Pirandello, Susan Glaspell, George Kelly, Noel Coward, Harold Pinter, Vaclav Havel, Eric Bentley, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Frank Gilroy, Jason Miller, Benjamin Bettenbender, Laura Cahill, Murray Schisgal and many others. Each week one new radio comedy/drama will be podcast here. Tune in! You may discover gems you never knew existed!      Production 4: Lou Gherig Did Not Die of Cancer, by Jason Miller (Comedy-Drama) Starring Danielle Aubuchon, Nancy Kawalek and Tony Miratti [Playing Time: 47:29] (Do nice guys finish last — in Little League??) Jason Miller (1939-2001) was an American actor/playwright who was launched into stardom in 1973 when he received the Pulitzer Prize for his play That Championship Season. That same year he was offered the role of the troubled priest in William Friedkin’s horror film “The Exorcist”; for that performance (see accompanying photo) he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Other plays: Nobody Hears a Broken Drum (1970), Barrymore’s Ghost (2000), and our current podcast, included in Three One-Act Plays. He was the father of actor Jason Patric by first wife Linda Gleason, daughter of Jackie Gleason. At age 62, Miller died of a heart attack in his home town, Scranton, PA. Close friend actor Paul Sorvino was commissioned by the city to create a bust of Miller to honor him.   Less

  The SBTA now offers its repertory of radio productions for free download. Not “old-time radio,” these are broadcast presentations of some of the world’s most gifted classic and contemporary playwrights: Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Luigi Pirandello, Susan Glaspell, George Kelly, Noel Coward, Harold Pinter, Vaclav Havel, Eric Bentley, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Frank Gilroy, Jason Miller, Benjamin Bettenbender, Laura Cahill, Murray Schisgal, etc., etc. Each week one new radio comedy/drama will be podcast here and posted to: www.theatre-of-the-air.com . Tune in! You may discover gems you never knew existed!    Production 2: I Can’t Remember Anything, by Arthur Miller (Comedy-drama) Starring Mitchell Ryan and Salome Jens (The widow of a man’s best friend drops in every day. What’s up?) Arthur Miller (1915-2005), recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, was one of the best known an d most successful American playwrights of the 20th Century. His Death of a Salesman, All My Sons, View From the Bridge, The Crucible and Incident at Vichy - among others - have become classics of dramatic literature. His screenplay “The Misfits” starred his then-wife Marilyn Monroe. He is notable too for having refused to give testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities . (On this subject, be sure to hear Larry Parks’ Day in Court, by Eric Bentley, later in this series.) Less

  The SBTA now offers its repertory of radio productions for free download. Not “old-time radio,” these are broadcast presentations of some of the world’s most gifted classic and contemporary playwrights: Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Luigi Pirandello, Susan Glaspell, George Kelly, Noel Coward, Harold Pinter, Vaclav Havel, Eric Bentley, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Frank Gilroy, Jason Miller, Benjamin Bettenbender, Laura Cahill, Murray Schisgal, etc., etc. Each week one new radio comedy/drama will be podcast here and posted to: www.theatre-of-the-air.com . Tune in! You may discover gems you never knew existed!    Production 1: A Way With Words, by Frank Gilroy. (Comedy-drama. Missed cues and little white lies change the lives of three people)  Frank Gilroy has won both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for The Subject Was Roses.  He adapted that play and another, The Only Game In Town, for film, and wrote screenplays for “Desperate Characters” and “The Gallant Hours.”  Wholl Save the Plowboy?, in which SBTA’s producer/director William Smithers played a leading role, received the Obie Award for Best Drama. Gilroy’s son Tony is a screen writer who also directed the recent George Clooney film “Michael Clayton.” Less

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed What was the first movie you ever saw in a movie theater? For me, I remember watching The Rescuers at a drive-in when I was a kid. I’ve been going to movie theaters all my life, even still today. Even though I have excellent home equipment to watch from the comfort of my couch, there’s still a place for the movie theater. There needs to be some changes, yes. And the cost? Don’t get me started there. I talked to my chat room, and asked them what their thoughts are as to what movie theaters need to be like for the future. Here is what they came up with: Free food! We know that’s how they make their money, but maybe they can come up with other ways to make money. I mean seriously. Bring on the popcorn dripping butter! Why not trying free popcorn or soda night? Discount licensing. Imagine if you went to a movie and you take your stub… and use it to buy that DVD, or be able to download it. Your ticket would entitle to you to a discount. Aroma and audience ambiance That would likely get me to go to the theater for that kind of experience. Force-feedback seats. How cool would that be? The only feedback I get on my seat is when I move it around. Bringing the movie off the screen and into the audience is something that would be really cool. Interaction! Let the audience choose their own ending. The audience could create a noise level or push a button to choose how they would like to see the movie end. Excellent Movie-Related Deals! Want to embed this video on your own site, blog, or forum? Use this code or download the video: <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BHxDWZlXxhk"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BHxDWZlXxhk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/">Chris</a> | <a href="http://live.pirillo.com/">Live Tech Support</a> | <a href="http://media.pirillo.com/">Video Help</a> | <a href="http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirilloShow">Add to iTunes</a> How to Watch a Show At a Movie Theater Near You Roxio Toast 9: Burn, Watch, Listen, Share Are You Ready for Blu-Ray DVD? Xbox DVD How to Buy an MP4 Player Buy a Camcorder Favorite Sci-Fi Movies of All Time How to Create a DVD for Free Scary Halloween Movies for Geeks Less

http://live.pirillo.com - What was the first movie you ever saw in a movie theater? For me, I remember watching The Rescuers at a drive-in when I was a kid. I've been going to movie theaters all my life, even still today. Even though I have excellent home equipment to watch from the comfort of my couch, there's still a place for the movie theater. Less

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