25 episodes

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.

Radio Play Revival Groundswell Theatricals & Josh Johnston

    • Arts
    • 4.7 • 48 Ratings

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.

    Cathedral by Raymond Carver

    Cathedral by Raymond Carver

    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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    • 43 min
    A Bush League Hero by Edna Ferber

    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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    • 22 min
    The Swimmer by John Cheever

    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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    • 34 min
    Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville

    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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    • 53 min
    Bodies in the Moonlight by Langston Hughes

    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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    • 19 min
    The Enchanted Bluff by Willa Cather

    The Enchanted Bluff by Willa Cather

    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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    • 26 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
48 Ratings

48 Ratings

broadwaydon ,

A fabulous look at classic literature

Stunning! I am thrilled to find presentations of such high quality. I hope we see many more.

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Fantastic

Each episode is terrific. Great casts and stories, and the production style is classic. Best new podcast of 2022!

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