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WORDTheatre Short Story Podcast
English, Arts, 1 seasons, 49 episodes, 1 day 7 hours
WORDTheatre Short Story Podcast
English, Arts, 1 seasons, 49 episodes, 1 day 7 hours
Guardians of the Galaxy's Gregg Henry performs "The Swing" by Margaret McMullan
03/12/2023 • 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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25/11/2023 • 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
19/11/2023 • 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
05/11/2023 • 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
30/10/2023 • 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!
22/10/2023 • 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
15/10/2023 • 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
08/10/2023 • 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
01/10/2023 • 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
24/09/2023 • 1 hour 21 seconds
Hina Abdullah's performs 'Saint Chola' by Kerrie Kvashay-Boyle & Imogen Poots performs 'Nickel Mines Hardware' by Linda Oatman High
17/09/2023 • 1 hour 16 minutes 15 seconds
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10/09/2023 • 34 minutes 10 seconds
Amanda Seyfried performs 'Fatso' by Leelila Strogov & Anson Mount performs 'The Grid' by Rick Moody
03/09/2023 • 43 minutes 32 seconds
Robert Forster performs "The Visit" by Russell Banks & John Heard performs "Greasy Lake" by TC Boyle
27/08/2023 • 58 minutes 36 seconds
Excerpts: Brian Cox reads from early memoir & and Forest Whitaker performs Curt Flood's unpublished memoir
20/08/2023 • 47 minutes 58 seconds
Dan Chaon's "Prosthesis" read by Frasier's Peri Gilpin & Donald Hall's "Revivals' read by James Cromwell
13/08/2023 • 36 minutes 27 seconds
Raymond Carver's "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" performed by Weekend at Bernie's Andrew McCarthy
06/08/2023 • 29 minutes 21 seconds
Righteous Gemstones' Cassidy Freeman performs 'The Summer Before' by Alethea Black
30/07/2023 • 31 minutes 21 seconds
Downton Abbey's Elizabeth McGovern Performs "Keith" by Ron Carlson
23/07/2023 • 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!
15/07/2023 • 25 minutes 13 seconds
JAZZ Special with Danny Sapani, Ginny Holder, Indira Varma & Joseph Marcell
09/07/2023 • 35 minutes 1 second
Game of Thrones' Gethin Anthony performs 'Reassurance' by Allan Gurganus
02/07/2023 • 31 minutes 52 seconds
Search Engine's Joely Fisher performs Tim O'Brien's "The Streak"
24/06/2023 • 28 minutes 22 seconds
House's Lisa Edelstein performs 'How I Became a Banker' by Lisa Cupolo
17/06/2023 • 28 minutes 29 seconds
Scandal's Dan Bucatinsky performs 'Biology' by Kevin Wilson
11/06/2023 • 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
04/06/2023 • 19 minutes 21 seconds
Flashdance's Michael Nouri performs 'Memorial Day' plus Spiderman's JK Simmons & Alfred Molina, & More performing Brian Doyle Stories
28/05/2023 • 30 minutes 44 seconds
Fast & Furious' Sung Kang reads The Entrepreneur's Story by Ha Jin
20/05/2023 • 27 minutes 34 seconds
London's Danny Sapani, Emma Hamilton, Guy Paul & Harriet Walter perform stories by Brian Doyle
14/05/2023 • 29 minutes 8 seconds
Spider-Man's Alfred Molina performs 'Nipple Jesus' by Nick Hornby
07/05/2023 • 30 minutes 8 seconds
The Walking Dead's Kevin Barry & Harry Potter's Ian Hart perform Kevin Barry's “Beer Trip to Llandudno”
29/04/2023 • 39 minutes 30 seconds
Succession's Brian Cox performs Steve Almond's 'The Problem of Human Consumption'
23/04/2023 • 29 minutes 10 seconds
A Spy Among Friends' Damian Lewis performs Anthony Doerr's "The Deep"
16/04/2023 • 48 minutes 6 seconds
Downton Abbey's Lesley Nicol performs Jill McCorkle's "Intervention"
09/04/2023 • 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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02/04/2023 • 17 minutes 30 seconds
This is Us/After Hours' Griffin Dunne performs 'Ambush' by Tim O'Brien
26/03/2023 • 16 minutes 48 seconds
(Rebroadcast) This Is Us / Castle's Jon Huertas performs "How to Tell a True War Story" by Tim O'Brien
12/03/2023 • 50 minutes
Righteous Gemstones' Cassidy Freeman performs Aimee Bender's Tiger Mending
05/03/2023 • 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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25/02/2023 • 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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19/02/2023 • 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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12/02/2023 • 49 minutes 53 seconds
CSI's Gary Dourdan performs "Bug Juice" by Christine Lincoln
Rebroadcast of episode 19 of Wordtheatre Short Story Podcast.
05/02/2023 • 29 minutes 44 seconds
A Serious Man's Fred Melamed performs 'The Lair' by Brian Doyle
29/01/2023 • 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!
22/01/2023 • 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.
15/01/2023 • 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!
08/01/2023 • 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.
01/01/2023 • 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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10/07/2022 • 1 hour 10 minutes 59 seconds