Radio Play Revival features great American actors performing great American works of literature. Performed by both established and new-and-emerging performers, musicians, and writers, Radio Play Revival pays homage to the golden age of radio, in the now-second golden age of audio. Radio Play Revival has an ensemble repertory cast of performers featuring Christopher Walken, Laura Benanti, Patti LuPone, Anderson Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, Jefferson Mays, Jessica Chastain, Samuel L. Jackson, Michelle Williams and many more.
Connecticut, 1983: In a strained marriage, a narrow-minded, prejudiced man- and his wife- host the wife’s former coworker for the night. Their guest is a blind man, and that’s the last person in the world this man wants to host... until the blind man opens the sighted man’s eyes for the first time in his life.
Cast (in speaking order):
BRYAN CRANSTON as The Narrator
STEPHEN McKINLEY HENDERSON as Robert
AUBREY PLAZA as The Narrator's Wife
with SAM TSOUTSOUVAS, the voice of RPR
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The Midwest, 1912: Ivy Keller is on summer vacation and bored limp. Until her father takes her to a baseball game. What ensues is a love triangle between Ivy’s father wanting the best for her, the star baseball pitcher and Ivy, and Ivy’s love of the game.
Cast (in speaking order):
ALLISON JANNEY as The Narrator
ED O'NEILL as Pa Keller
TAYLOR MISIAK as Ivy Keller
KATHRYN GRODY as Ma Keller
JOHN SKELLEY as Rudy Schlachweiler
PAUL URCIOLI as The Proprietor
with SAM TSOUTSOUVAS, the voice of RPR
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The Suburbs, 1964: Neddy Merrill is lounging poolside at a friend’s party, gin in hand, when a genius thought materializes in his mind. He’s going to swim home! His ensuing pilgrimage across the familiar neighborhood swimming pools- a symbol of everything right in his life- leads him back to his own house, where everything has gone so wrong.
Cast (in speaking order):
PATRICK PAGE as The Narrator
NATHAN MALIN as Donald Westerhazy / The Lifeguards
KELLY FAIRBROTHER as Lucinda Merrill / Shirley Abbott
GIA MANTEGNA as Helen Westerhazy / Enid Bunker
REBECCA KUZNICK as Mrs. Graham
JOSH JOHNSTON as Neddy Merrill
KITTY SWINK as Mrs. Halloran
LASHETTE SHOWERS as Helen Halloran
TIA DeSHAZOR as Grace Biswanger
with SAM TSOUTSOUVAS, the voice of RPR
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New York City, 1853: An elderly lawyer reflects on an employee he had thirty years prior, and the havoc that his passive resistance inflicted upon everyone around him.
Cast (in speaking order):
SAM TSOUTSOUVAS as Every Character
with JOSH JOHNSTON, the voice of RPR
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The West African Coast, 1927: With their ship stuck in port for over a month, half the crew sick with fever, and food running low, two best friends fall for the same woman.
Cast (in speaking order):
JON HAMM as The Narrator
TYLER HANSEN as The Chief Mate / The Second Cook
NATHAN MALIN as The Young Swede
DAVID ZAYAS as Porto Rico
KATHRYN ALLISON as Nunuma
JOHN SKELLEY as The Jamaican Baker / Wireless Man
with SAM TSOUTSOUVAS, the voice of RPR
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Nebraska, 1909: Six friends enjoy the final night of their final summer together under the stars and the moon, in this coming-of-age tale about friendship, innocence, and adventure.
Cast (in speaking order):
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS as The Narrator
ASHTON MUÑIZ as Otto Hassler
COLEMAN HEMSATH as Percy Pound
DARREN CRISS as Tip Smith
AARON ALCARAZ as Arthur Adams
YOUNG DYLAN as Fritz Hassler
with SAM TSOUTSOUVAS, the voice of RPR
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Spain, 1927: While waiting for a train, a young couple passes the time with drinks and observations, discussing everything they can think of before they must finally have the conversation they’ve been dreading.
Cast (in speaking order):
JESSICA LANGE as The Narrator
SAMI GAYLE as The Girl
JOSH JOHNSTON as The MAN
MARILYN CASERTA as The Waitress
with SAM TSOUTSOUVAS, the voice of RPR
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New England, 1834: Mr. Higginbotham was murdered last night in Kimballton. Or was it the night before last? Two travelers on the road tell our protagonist, Dominicus Pike, differing stories of Mr. Higginbotham’s murder. But everyone else Dominicus meets on his journey to Kimballton says they’ve seen Old Man Higginbotham alive today. Can you solve the mystery before the end of this horror-comedy?
Cast (in speaking order):
JEFFERSON MAYS as The Narrator
CLAYBOURNE ELDER as Dominicus Pike
LUKE WISE as The Traveler
ARMIN SHIMERMAN as The Farmer
AARON ALCARAZ as The Ethiopian
PAUL URCIOLI as The Lawyer
LASHETTE SHOWERS as Mr. Higginbotham's Niece
ROB NAGLE as The Toll Gatherer
with SAM TSOUTSOUVAS, the voice of RPR
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Mississippi, Christmas Day: Never get in the way of a grandparent. Old Phoenix Jackson makes her way through the woods, in search of medicine for her grandson. On her familiar journey, she faces new obstacles, friends and foes, and an ever-changing world.
Cast (in speaking order):
COREY HAWKINS as The Narrator
PHYLICIA RASHAD as Old Phoenix
SAM ROBARDS as The Hunter
MEGAN BEARD as The Woman on the Street
KATHLEEN MULLIGAN as The Attendant
KITTY SWINK as The Nurse
with SAM TSOUTSOUVAS, the voice of RPR
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The Bronx, 2016. 18-year-old Carver Washington wrestles between going off to college and pursuing his dreams, and staying at home to take care of his kid sister Paris and his wheelchair-bound Grandmother, Ma’Dear.
Cast (in speaking order):
JOHN SKELLEY reading Stage Directions
MILES BRENTON as Carver Washington
RILEY CARTER ADAMS as Paris France Washington
MARGERY A. HANDY as Ma'Dear
ELLIE SCHWETYE as Devora
with SAM TSOUTSOUVAS, the voice of RPR
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Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.
A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.
But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.
She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and
captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world.
Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s
blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret.
Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but
all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and
left a community in shock.
Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret.
New episodes every Monday.
Follow Scamanda on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.