Radio Play Revival features great American actors performing great American works of literature. Performed by both established and new-and-emerging performers, ...
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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S. 3, Ep. 8: A Bush League Hero by Edna Ferber
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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S. 3, Ep. 7: The Swimmer by John Cheever
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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S. 3, Ep. 6: Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville
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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S. 3, Ep. 5: Bodies in the Moonlight by Langston Hughes
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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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.
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