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WORDTheatre Short Story Podcast
English, Arts, 1 season, 94 episodes, 2 days, 11 hours, 40 minutes
WORDTheatre Short Story Podcast
English, Arts, 1 season, 94 episodes, 2 days, 11 hours, 40 minutes
Succession's Harriet Walter performs "Her First American" by Lore Segal
10/19/2024 • 45 minutes, 5 seconds
Bridgerton's Ben Miller performs "East Coast West Coast" by Will Cohu
9/28/2024 • 33 minutes, 7 seconds
Veep's Gary Cole performs "Walls" by Tod Goldberg
9/21/2024 • 19 minutes, 27 seconds
The Crown's Alastair Mackenzie performs "Savage" by Kamila Shamsie
9/14/2024 • 23 minutes, 55 seconds
NCIS's Graham Hamilton performs "Sure I Will" by Dan Chaon
9/7/2024 • 24 minutes, 57 seconds
The Wood's Malinda Williams performs "Black Power" by Bernice McFadden
9/1/2024 • 33 minutes, 39 seconds
Billion's Maggie Siff performs "Running" by Joyce Carol Oates
8/24/2024 • 24 minutes, 57 seconds
Staff Picks: Mayans M.C. Richard Cabral performs "Good Things Happen at Tina’s Café" by Daniel Olivas + Daniel Olivas performing his poem "Papa's Car"
8/17/2024 • 50 minutes, 44 seconds
Staff Picks: Brooklyn Bridge's Amy Aquino performs "Tiny, Meaningless Things" by Marissa Silver
8/10/2024 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 19 seconds
Staff Picks: American Vandal's Griffin Gluck performs "Uncle Willem" by Brad Watson plus an interview with his longtime editor, Alane Salierno Mason.
8/3/2024 • 26 minutes, 39 seconds
Staff Picks: Smallville's Cassidy Freeman performs "Each Day is the Same Backward and Forward", Jason Issacs performs "The Meeting, and Roma Maffia performs "Appleless" by Aimee Bender
7/28/2024 • 42 minutes, 55 seconds
Staff Picks: Dune's Tim Blake Nelson reads "The Depletion Prompts" by David Means
7/20/2024 • 39 minutes, 21 seconds
Staff Picks: Jennifer's Body's Johnny Simmons performs "Proxy Marriage" by Maile Meloy
7/13/2024 • 56 minutes, 38 seconds
Tulsa King's Vincent Piazza performs "Uncle Norm Reads Spinoza as His Cookie Business Collapses Due to the Rise in Sugar Prices in the Dominican Republic" by Peter Orner and "The Mighty Shannon" by David Means
7/6/2024 • 51 minutes, 29 seconds
Scandal's Bellamy Young performs "The Hawk", "Mr. Kim", and "Finger of Speech" by Brian Doyle
6/29/2024 • 23 minutes, 49 seconds
Friends' Christina Pickles & Lincoln Lawyer's Christopher Gorham perform “The Apartment” by T.C. Boyle
6/22/2024 • 58 minutes, 23 seconds
Father's Day: Jackie Brown's Robert Forster performs "Sweet Day" by Hal Ackerman
6/15/2024 • 21 minutes, 34 seconds
TC BOYLE MONTH: Home Alone's John Heard performs "Greasy Lake" by T.C. Boyle and T.C. Boyle performs his story "Modern Love"
6/8/2024 • 50 minutes, 13 seconds
TC BOYLE MONTH: Jackie Brown's Robert Forster performs "Slate Mountain" by T.C. Boyle
6/1/2024 • 47 minutes, 56 seconds
TC BOYLE REBROADCAST MONTH: Big's Elizabeth Perkins performs "Hands On" by T.C. Boyle / Dear John's Jere Burns performs "La Conchita" by T.C. Boyle
5/25/2024 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 4 seconds
TC BOYLE REBROADCAST MONTH: The Queen's Gambit's John Schwab and Coupling's Sarah Alexander perform "Three Quarters of the Way to Hell" by T.C. Boyle
5/18/2024 • 43 minutes, 53 seconds
TC BOYLE REBROADCAST MONTH: The Sinner's Bill Pullman performs "Hopes Rise" by T.C. Boyle
5/12/2024 • 47 minutes, 20 seconds
TC BOYLE REBROADCAST MONTH: The Diplomat's Miguel Sandoval performs "Sin Dolor" by T.C. Boyle
5/4/2024 • 51 minutes, 13 seconds
TC BOYLE REBROADCAST MONTH: Jurassic Park's Jeff Goldblum performs "My Pain Is Worse Than Your Pain" by T.C. Boyle
4/29/2024 • 56 minutes, 24 seconds
TC BOYLE REBROADCAST MONTH: Jurassic Park's Jeff Goldblum performs "My Pain Is Worse Than Your Pain" by T.C. Boyle
4/27/2024 • 57 minutes, 28 seconds
In The Cosmos Pt. 2
4/20/2024 • 58 minutes, 23 seconds
In The Cosmos Part 1
4/13/2024 • 54 minutes, 20 seconds
Dan Chaon Stories: Amexicano's Raul Castillo and The Good Wife's Juliana Margulies perform "That's Him, That's The Guy!" and The Walking Dead's Xander Berkeley performs "Take This Brother, May It Serve You Well"
4/6/2024 • 57 minutes, 52 seconds
The Good Fight's Michael Boatman performs "Federation for the Like-Minded" by Sidik Fofana
3/30/2024 • 27 minutes, 28 seconds
Bosch's Sarah Clarke performs "Two Step" by Maile Meloy
3/23/2024 • 26 minutes, 49 seconds
The Walking Dead's David Morrissey & The Last Kingdom's Ian Hart perform Kevin Barry's Beer Trip to Llandudno
3/16/2024 • 40 minutes, 18 seconds
CSI's Robert David Hall performs "The Pass" by Steve Almond
3/9/2024 • 36 minutes, 51 seconds
Appropriate Behavior's Halley Feiffer performs "Ask For Pain" by Julie Orringer
3/2/2024 • 22 minutes, 40 seconds
American Fiction's Keith David performs "Rope Burn" by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
2/25/2024 • 12 minutes, 35 seconds
Black Panther's Sterling K Brown performs "Lost and Found" by John Edgar Wideman and Candyman's Colman Domingo performs "Condemned" by John Edgar Wideman
2/18/2024 • 9 minutes, 30 seconds
Greenleaf's Lynn Whitfield performs "Lamentations" by John Edgar Wideman
2/10/2024 • 33 minutes, 20 seconds
Avatar's CCH Pounder performs "By Love Possessed" by Lorna Goodison
2/3/2024 • 22 minutes, 35 seconds
Saturday Stories Rebrand: Scandinavian/MLK Mashup
1/27/2024 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 20 seconds
The Walking Dead's Xander Berkeley performs "Rastrows Island" by T.C. Boyle
1/21/2024 • 36 minutes, 54 seconds
This is Us's Sterling K. Brown performs Alluvial Deposits by Percival Everett
1/14/2024 • 33 minutes, 29 seconds
David Soul, we honor you by sharing your brilliance, never to be forgotten...
1/7/2024 • 27 minutes, 26 seconds
White Collar's Tim DeKay performs a New Year's story, Lore Segal's "The Arbus Factor"
12/31/2023 • 10 minutes, 53 seconds
Gotham's Donal Logue performs "The H Street Sledding Record" by Ron Carlson
12/22/2023 • 22 minutes, 33 seconds
UnREAL's Craig Bierko performs "The Birds For Christmas" by Mark Richard
12/17/2023 • 20 minutes, 59 seconds
Whiplash's JK Simmons performs Brian Doyle's The Meterorites
12/10/2023 • 35 minutes, 37 seconds
Guardians of the Galaxy's Gregg Henry performs "The Swing" by Margaret McMullan
12/3/2023 • 32 minutes, 36 seconds
The Good Wife's Julianna Margulies performs Thanksgiving by Joyce Carol Oates
In what is becoming an annual tradition on the WORDTheatre Short Story Podcast, we are featuring Julianna Margulies performance of Joyce Carol Oates wonderfully bizarre short story, Thanksgiving, introduced by the author! Enjoy!
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11/25/2023 • 31 minutes, 8 seconds
Station 19's Jason George performs "The Astronaut" by Ben Loory and The Righteous Gemstones' Cassidy Freeman performs "She Floats 1969" by Meg Howrey
11/19/2023 • 25 minutes, 46 seconds
Veterans' Day Special: House of Cards' Kevin Kilner performs "Leper" by veteran author Tom Bird
11/11/2023 • 20 minutes, 37 seconds
Marcia Gay Harden performs "Reading in his Wake" by Pamela Painter & Christopher McDonald performs " Today Will Be A Quiet Day" by Amy Hempel
11/5/2023 • 29 minutes, 10 seconds
Black Panther's Danny Sapani performs 'Comrade Piso's Justice' by Petina Gappah and Ted Lasso's Harriet Walter performs 'Her First American' by Lore Segal
10/30/2023 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 41 seconds
Lizzie Ball on violin, Ozark's Jason Butler Harner, The Witcher's MyAnna Buring, Starsky & Hutch's David Soul perform Stories & Poems by Siv Cedering: A 2020 Winter Solstice Literary Celebration, with some music by Jonathan Sacks!
10/22/2023 • 57 minutes, 46 seconds
"Searching the Cosmos: the Ultimate Quest" Full Show narrated by John Schwab with Ben Miller, Jason Isaacs, Gina Bellman & Matt Barber featuring original music by Jonatha Sacks & Starr Parodi
10/15/2023 • 1 hour, 39 seconds
Guardian's of the Galaxy's Gregg Henry performs 'Subtract One Zero' by TC Boyle and NYPD Blue's Sharon Lawrence performs 'Hospital' by Michelle Latiolais
10/8/2023 • 1 hour, 35 minutes, 11 seconds
Liar Liar's Amanda Donohoe performs "Totty" by James Lasdun and Starsky & Hutch's David Soul performs "What Time is it Where You Are?" by Colum McCann
10/1/2023 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 53 seconds
The Sinner's Bill Pullman performs Au Sable by Joyce Carol Oates and Simply Heavenly's Rhashan Stone performs Nabo by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
9/24/2023 • 1 hour, 21 seconds
Hina Abdullah's performs 'Saint Chola' by Kerrie Kvashay-Boyle & Imogen Poots performs 'Nickel Mines Hardware' by Linda Oatman High
9/17/2023 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 15 seconds
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9/10/2023 • 34 minutes, 10 seconds
Amanda Seyfried performs 'Fatso' by Leelila Strogov & Anson Mount performs 'The Grid' by Rick Moody
9/3/2023 • 43 minutes, 32 seconds
Robert Forster performs "The Visit" by Russell Banks & John Heard performs "Greasy Lake" by TC Boyle
8/27/2023 • 58 minutes, 36 seconds
Excerpts: Brian Cox reads from early memoir & and Forest Whitaker performs Curt Flood's unpublished memoir
8/20/2023 • 47 minutes, 58 seconds
Dan Chaon's "Prosthesis" read by Frasier's Peri Gilpin & Donald Hall's "Revivals' read by James Cromwell
8/13/2023 • 36 minutes, 27 seconds
Raymond Carver's "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" performed by Weekend at Bernie's Andrew McCarthy
8/6/2023 • 29 minutes, 21 seconds
Righteous Gemstones' Cassidy Freeman performs 'The Summer Before' by Alethea Black
7/30/2023 • 31 minutes, 21 seconds
Downton Abbey's Elizabeth McGovern Performs "Keith" by Ron Carlson
7/23/2023 • 41 minutes, 43 seconds
REBROADCAST Starsky & Hutch's David Soul performs "My Uncle's Numbers" by Siv Cedering
This episode of the WORDTheatre Short Story Podcast features David Soul performing "My Uncle's Numbers" by Siv Cedering. Please support us by signing up on our website at WORDTheatre.org, by writing us a review, and by sharing this link with friends! Our Live Author/Actor Events are available free to Annual WordTheatre Members every month!
7/15/2023 • 25 minutes, 13 seconds
JAZZ Special with Danny Sapani, Ginny Holder, Indira Varma & Joseph Marcell
7/9/2023 • 35 minutes, 1 second
Game of Thrones' Gethin Anthony performs 'Reassurance' by Allan Gurganus
7/2/2023 • 31 minutes, 52 seconds
Search Engine's Joely Fisher performs Tim O'Brien's "The Streak"
6/24/2023 • 28 minutes, 22 seconds
House's Lisa Edelstein performs 'How I Became a Banker' by Lisa Cupolo
6/17/2023 • 28 minutes, 29 seconds
Scandal's Dan Bucatinsky performs 'Biology' by Kevin Wilson
6/11/2023 • 38 minutes, 34 seconds
Hanif Kureishi's 'She Said, He Said,' performed by Game of Thrones' Indira Varma, Hollington Drive's Rhashan Stone, Happy Valley's Derek Riddell & Love Actually's Nina Sosanya
6/4/2023 • 19 minutes, 21 seconds
Flashdance's Michael Nouri performs 'Memorial Day' plus Spiderman's JK Simmons & Alfred Molina, & More performing Brian Doyle Stories
5/28/2023 • 30 minutes, 44 seconds
Fast & Furious' Sung Kang reads The Entrepreneur's Story by Ha Jin
5/20/2023 • 27 minutes, 34 seconds
London's Danny Sapani, Emma Hamilton, Guy Paul & Harriet Walter perform stories by Brian Doyle
5/14/2023 • 29 minutes, 8 seconds
Spider-Man's Alfred Molina performs 'Nipple Jesus' by Nick Hornby
5/7/2023 • 30 minutes, 8 seconds
The Walking Dead's Kevin Barry & Harry Potter's Ian Hart perform Kevin Barry's “Beer Trip to Llandudno”
4/29/2023 • 39 minutes, 30 seconds
Succession's Brian Cox performs Steve Almond's 'The Problem of Human Consumption'
4/23/2023 • 29 minutes, 10 seconds
A Spy Among Friends' Damian Lewis performs Anthony Doerr's "The Deep"
4/16/2023 • 48 minutes, 6 seconds
Downton Abbey's Lesley Nicol performs Jill McCorkle's "Intervention"
4/9/2023 • 49 minutes, 9 seconds
Ted Lasso's Hannah Waddingham performs 'But The One On The Right' by Dorothy Parker
Seated next to a bore on her left, Dorothy Parker has a field day with her neighbors in this story. Who but Hannah Waddingham could step into Parker's shoes and deliver so brilliantly? You are in for a treat!
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4/2/2023 • 17 minutes, 30 seconds
This is Us/After Hours' Griffin Dunne performs 'Ambush' by Tim O'Brien
3/26/2023 • 16 minutes, 48 seconds
(Rebroadcast) This Is Us / Castle's Jon Huertas performs "How to Tell a True War Story" by Tim O'Brien
3/12/2023 • 50 minutes
Righteous Gemstones' Cassidy Freeman performs Aimee Bender's Tiger Mending
3/5/2023 • 27 minutes, 14 seconds
The Crown's Olivia Williams performs 'Your Ad Could Go Here' by Oksana Zabuzhko
As the war in Ukraine rages into the second year, we honor the people of Ukraine by shining a spotlight on one of the country's many supremely talented authors, Oksana Zabuzhko. Olivia Williams inhabited the titular story of her collection, Your Ad Could Go Here, in a fully realized performance at WORDTheatre's London Benefit for Okhmatdyt, Kyiv's largest Children's Hospital, in October of 2022. Support Oksana by picking up her book at Bookshop.org!
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2/25/2023 • 25 minutes, 43 seconds
NCIS's CCH Pounder performs 'Love Possessed' by Lorna Goodison
For Black History Month, we are celebrating one of the great poets, Lorna Goodison, whose Pushcart Prize winning story, By Love Possessed, was performed by the brilliant CCH Pounder in Venice, California. Enjoy!
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2/19/2023 • 20 minutes, 41 seconds
Jennifer's Body's Johnny Simmons performs 'Proxy Marriage' by Malie Meloy
A great story by Maile Meloy, delightfully performed by Johnny Simmons, to enjoy on Valentine's Day, or any day!
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2/12/2023 • 49 minutes, 53 seconds
CSI's Gary Dourdan performs "Bug Juice" by Christine Lincoln
Rebroadcast of episode 19 of Wordtheatre Short Story Podcast.
2/5/2023 • 29 minutes, 44 seconds
A Serious Man's Fred Melamed performs 'The Lair' by Brian Doyle
1/29/2023 • 9 minutes, 43 seconds
Jurrasic Park's Jeff Goldblum performs 'Bulldog' by Arthur Miller
Here is a wonderful story by one of the United States' most acclaimed playwrights, Arthur Miller, performed by the one and only Jeff Goldblum recorded live back in the early days of WORDTheatre®. We offer you this special gift as the celebrations of our 20th Anniversary Year continue! Please support our work by joining us as contributing Member at wordtheatre.org. And spread the word about WORDTheatre ©2023. All Rights reserved!
1/22/2023 • 28 minutes, 51 seconds
CSI's Gary Dourdan performs Witness: Letter From France by John Edgar Wideman
TRIGGER WARNING: The N word is used and the first sentence in the piece is "My people are being killed." In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we are presenting a brave, brilliant and powerful piece of writing by John Edgar Wideman.
1/15/2023 • 16 minutes, 37 seconds
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's Michael Zegen performs "Grief" by Pamela Painter
This episode features Michael Zegen performing "Grief" by Pamela Painter. Please support us by signing up on our website at WORDTheatre.org, by writing us a review, and by sharing this link with friends! Our Live Author/Actor Events are available free to Annual WordTheatre Members every month!
1/8/2023 • 24 minutes, 59 seconds
White Collar's Tim DeKay performs Lore Segal's "The Arbus Factor"
Two friends meet in Manhattan at a favorite lunch place and discuss resolutions for the New Year.
1/1/2023 • 11 minutes, 3 seconds
In Memoriam: A Tribute to Philip Baker Hall
Four great short stories performed by Philip Baker Hall penned by Mark Halliday, Ron Carlson, Joyce Carol Oates and Kevin Brockmeier, produced and directed by Cedering Fox exclusively for WORDTheatre.
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7/10/2022 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 59 seconds