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Join us as we talk with Janine Sobeck Knighton, the playwright of Sing in Me, Muse.

Calliope has quit her job as the head Greek Muse – or so she thought. When she is sent on another assignment against her will, she must figure out if helping her new artist, a young Florentine by the name of Leonardo da Vinci, will also help her find her own artistic voice.

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Join us as we talk with Marj O'Neill-Butler, the playwright of Uneven Sides of a Triangle.

Teenaged brothers, Temin and Miah, have been on the street for almost two years, having run away from their last (of six) foster families. They duck into an abandoned building where they meet old Millie in her squat. With their quarrels, disagreements, and different lifestyles, can the three of them form an unlikely family in the months that follow?

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Join us as we talk with Dermot Davis, the playwright of We Are Not Sheep.

After a mysterious accident on the school playground, the doctors put Emma into an induced coma. Her parents, Brent and Amy, are desperately trying to make sense of the situation, as the red flags point more and more towards a conspiracy. Now they are being asked to sign legal papers agreeing to a hugely invasive brain operation on their nine year-old girl. It's a huge decision to make, especially when they think they are being lied to.

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Join us as we talk with Robert Weibezahl, the playwright of Out of the Woods.

When Orfie wakes up alone in the woods, he meets a mysterious stranger who leaves him with a disturbing warning: If he marries the love of his life, it will end in tragedy. Will knowing the future change his decisions, or is love worth the risks?

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Join us as we talk with Timothy J. Foley, the playwright of Vista Point.

What happens when desperate people meet a desperado? When Andy is on the brink of  suicide, he meets Cheddar, a criminal offering cash and a deal. If he accepts the deal, will it be his redemption or undoing?

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Join us as we talk with Dan Borengasser, the playwright of A Rom-Com Reckoning.

Matt, who works as a copywriter, is determined to write a rom-com. But he's at a loss as to how to even begin. As a result of attending a writers workshop, he meets Jessie, who suggests he treat it as a research project, like a field trial when he's introducing a new product at work. She proposes, as a subject for the trial, a blind date with her best friend, Nora, who's had a string of terrible online dating experiences, figuring, at the very least, this could get Nora away from online dating. Two birds with one stone. What could go wrong?

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Join us as we talk with B. C. Stands, the playwright of Not For Children.

As a poor, white family fights the sale of its farm, a dark secret has caused TJ, the youngest member, to speak only in movie quotes. An unexpected visit from the town’s new, black sheriff brings the family’s problems to a head. After a murder is exposed, the family fights among itself for someone to take the blame.

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Join us as we talk with Rob Dames, the playwright of Two Old Thieves Waiting and Reminiscing.

Two old thieves, waiting to exchange goods for cash with a fence they never met, reminisce about their lives and their life of crime and friendship. A surprise arrival ties it all together.

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Join us as we talk with Amy Tofte, the playwright of Lived Experience.

When an android falls in love with her human co-worker, she must learn difficult human nuances, such as love vs. lust and support vs. control. HR is forced to get involved and protect their investment to the corporation. The intersection of love, greed, and capitalism comes to a head, and the humans must decide if they can live without artificial intelligence in their lives or stay bound to the corporation. Is there an algorithm for love? Is love even real? Or is it merely an agreed upon delusion between consenting sentient beings?

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Join us as we talk with Eva Schegulla, the playwright of The Effie Effect.

A comic nod to noir. The daughter of the Prince of Pastry has been kidnapped. Detective Donald Light and his efficient assistant, Sylvia, have been called upon to solve the crime. Can Sylvia manage the detective, the informants, the witnesses, and the press, all while solving the crime herself?

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Premiere the Play is back with 10 new audio performances of stage plays from contemporary playwrights!

Check out what's coming in Season Five:

https://deanproductionstheatre.com/ptp-season-5/

Listen to Season 5 of Premiere the Play starting August 5th, 2025: https://deanproductionstheatre.com/ptp-season-5

Join us as we talk with Tom Lavagnino, the playwright of Winter Rules All Summer.

Four friends habitually play golf every Sunday morning, with a set-in- stone tee time of 9:36 AM. But when one of their number doesn't show up (and they can't track him down), and a random golfer from the "wait list" gets assigned to their foursome (and inveigles his way into the group), the three are forced to deal with some very real truths and ultimately confront a complete and total re-definition of the term “friendship.”

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Join us as we talk with Marc Aronoff, the playwright of A Night in Jerusalem.

A modern-day Sabbath dinner is unfolding in Jerusalem, but this is no ordinary gathering. When Salah, a Harvard educated Palestinian who seeks peace with Israel, unexpectedly arrives at the invitation of his girlfriend, the evening turns into a web of political intrigue rooted in idealism and radical differences.

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Join us as we talk with Chris Hencke, the playwright of The Emperor's New Clothes: The Rest of the Story.

After the Emperor has exposed himself as a fool (by walking naked through the town square), he seeks to blame his Minister for the resulting riot. While the Emperor and the Minister debate the issue, the riot spreads and the kingdom crumbles.

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Join us as we talk with Mike Ackerman, the playwright of After.

Hank and Daisy have just made it to the afterlife and meet the administrator tasked with orienting them to their new existence. When Daisy is rejected from entry, the three work to determine what she must accomplish on Earth in order to join Hank.

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Join us as we talk with Germaine Shames, the playwright of Beautiful Findings.

Lise Meitner, often called “The Mother of the Atomic Bomb,” worked in Germany for over 30 years. When she arrived in Berlin from her native Vienna in 1907, she was among the first women to seek a place in science; when she fled for her life in 1938, she was one of the last (converted) Jewish academics not yet expelled by the Nazis.

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Join us as we talk with Vicki Riba Koestler, the playwright of I'm Here.

When one woman appears to be at a low point in her life and needs a helping hand, three others, all virtual strangers to each other, combine forces to support her. It’s a difficult task, being that they’re all stuck in a hospital.

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Join us as we talk with Barbara Blatner, the playwright of Marilyn Monroe in the Desert.

When Marilyn Monroe finds herself lost in the desert, can she overcome death with the help of two blind wanderers? Marilyn Monroe in the Desert is a Magical, Comical Dream Quest.

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Join us as we talk with Dan Borengasser, the playwright of The Puck Project.

For her master’s thesis, Nora wants to write about Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but she struggles to come up with an original take on it. She finally decides to compare the traditional love in the play with a love that can be artificially induced like with Puck’s magic potion—or possibly through the techniques of modern neurobiology. As it turns out, her approach may be a little too original.

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Join us as we talk with Julie Pearson Little Thunder, the playwright of A Southern Fantasia.

In 1897 Alabama, two Slave spirits—one African-American, one Indigenous—watch over a rural community that includes Okcate, a half black/half Muscogee Creek woman. When she and a white man fall in love, the Spirits' desire to fend off threats from a caste-based society upsets the precarious balance of their own limbic status.

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Join us as we talk with John Minigan, the playwright of Covenant.

How do we become entrenched in the beliefs we hold and what, if anything, can get us to walk away when those beliefs lead to chaos and destruction?

Jordan’s mission to infiltrate and report on an apocalyptic religious community has ended in disaster. Questions from an unseen interrogator trigger and inform Jordan’s memories of her time undercover, force her to confront the series of choices she made, and decide whether the beliefs that guided her mission are any less dangerous than the beliefs of those in the group.

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Premiere the Play is back with 10 new audio performances of stage plays from contemporary playwrights!

Check out what's coming in Season Four:

https://deanproductionstheatre.com/ptp-season-4/

Check out what's on its way in season four!

https://deanproductionstheatre.com/ptp-season-4/

Calling all Playwrights! Submissions are now open for our 2025 Season... Find out more at ⁠https://deanproductionstheatre.com/get-involved/

Join us as we talk with Andrew Biss, the playwright of The Treachery of Images.

A young student is brutally raped and murdered. Her parents, Tom and Christine, are now confronted with the daunting task of processing their grief and attempting to come to terms with the horror that befell their child. The paths they take in doing so, however, couldn't be starker in contrast. Christine has withdrawn into a deadened world of suppressed rage and bitterness that has left her incapable of seeing beyond the terrible tragedy that has visited her. Her husband, Tom, on the other hand, has taken the unusual step of publicly announcing his forgiveness of their daughter's killer. At the most difficult moment in their lives, a wedge has been driven between them, threatening to destroy the only thing they have left, each other. On this explosive evening of final reckoning, as home truths and simmering resentments are laid bare, each will learn painful, often brutal lessons on both the nature of forgiveness and the treachery of images.

https://deanproductionstheatre.com/treachery-of-images-episode/

Join us as we talk with Dan Borengasser, the playwright of The L-Word.

Rebecca Bishop is frustrated. After seven years, her boyfriend, Scott Billings, still avoids making any long-term commitment about their future. As a result, she decides, with the reluctant help of her best friend/employee, Michael Allen, to look into online dating, not necessarily to find someone else, but rather, as she puts it, “to understand my options.” Nevertheless, she does discover a guy who looks promising, and she arranges a meeting. It goes well, and the two decide on a second date. Meanwhile, Michael, convinced that Scott is the one for her, schemes and conspires to try and get Rebecca and Scott back together.

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Join us as we talk with Xavier George, the playwright of Mommy-Person.