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O. Henry

May 2, 2008

The program features Curt Columbus , Janice Duclos, Tim Crowe, William Damkoehler and Mauro Hantman, performing and discussing O. Henry's short stories The Ransom of Red Chief and Tobin's Palm (May 2, 2008)

Spoils of War

September 5, 2008

The Spoils of War: excerpts from Report on the Barnhouse Effect by Kurt Vonnegut; Lafayette, Farewell by Ray Bradbury (Broadcast with the permission of Don Congdon Associates, Inc. Copyright 1998 by Ray Bradbury); and My War, by Diane C. Jaeger, featuring Stephen Berenson, Janice Duclos and Stephen Thorne.

Charles Dickens

November 4, 2006

The episode features Curt Columbus and company members William Damkoehler, Janice Duclos, Mauro Hantman and Anne Scurria. The pr

Anton Chekhov

February 3, 2007

The original premiere edition of Trinity Rep Radio Theater focuses on
four short stories of Anton Chekhov, adapted by Trinity Rep's Artistic
Director Curt Columbus, who serves as the program's guide into the
genius of this prolific 19th century Russian author and playwright. It

Irish Playwrights, Novelists and Poets

December 31, 2006

This episode features Curt Columbus and company members  Janice Duclos, Stephen Thorne and Rachael Warren .

Thornton Wilder

March 3, 2007

The July episode features Curt Columbus and company members  Angela Brazil, Timothy Crowe and Joe Wilson, Jr.

Forbidden Love

August 4, 2007

Excerpts from Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome, with Janice Duclos, Phyllis Kay, and Mauro Hantman and artistic director Curt Columbus.

Soulmates

November 3, 2007

This episode features Curt Columbus and company members Janice Duclos, Barbara Meek, and Fred Sullivan, Jr.

Charles Dickens

December 8, 2007

The episode features Curt Columbus and company members Stephen Berenson, Tim Crowe and Janice Duclos.

Bad Boys and Wicked Women: Literary Villains

February 2, 2008

A companion piece to Trinity Rep's production of Shakespeare's Richard III, the show features excerpts from Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, 1984 by George Orwell, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens, with performances Curt Columbus and resident
company actors Janice Duclos, Stephen Thorne and Rachael Warren.

Robert Penn Warren

September 1, 2007

The program features Curt Columbus and company members Janice Duclos, Fred Sullivan, Jr and Stephen Thorne.

Dorothy Parker

April 5, 2008

The program features Curt Columbus and company members Janice Duclos, Phyllis Kay and Fred Sullivan, Jr . To complement Trinity Rep's production of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit,

Americans in Paris

June 7, 2008

Artistic director Curt Columbus and host Bob Seay welcome actors Janice DuclosStephen ThorneRachael Warren and Joe Wilson, Jr., performing and discussing the work of American writers in the City of Light: Langston Hughes, Sylvia Beach, David Sedaris and Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes).  

Fairytales

October 6, 2007

The episode features artistic director Curt Columbus and resident company actors Stephen Berenson, Angela Brazil and Phyllis Kay. directed by Janice Duclos.

Mothers and Daughters

January 5, 2008

The episode features Curt Columbus and company members Anne Scurria, Barbara Meek and Janice Duclos,
and a special guest from Trinity Rep's Young Actors Studio - Molly

Tales from the Dark Side

October 4, 2008

Tales from the Dark Side: features Wet Saturday by John Collier and The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe. featuring Janice Duclos, Mauro Hantman, Fred Sullivan Jr., and Rachael Warren.

The Holidays

December 6, 2008

An all-new show featuring Grace Paley's "The Loudest Voice," Italo Calvino's "Santa's Children" and Loudon Wainwright's "The Annual Crisis of Love." Joining artistic director Curt Columbus are resident company actors Angela Brazil, William Damkoehler, Janice Duclos and Joe Wilson, Jr.

Irish Pleasures

January 3, 2009

An encore presentation (2006) featuring James Joyce's The Dead (excerpt), Lady Gregory's The Workhouse Ward, and Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince. Janice Duclos, Stephen Thorne and Rachael Warren join artistic director Curt Columbus and host Bob Seay.

John Cheever and the American Dream

February 7, 2009

Trinity Rep company actors Janice Duclos, Fred Sullivan, Jr., and Rachael Warren read and discuss Cheever's "The Enormous Radio," "The Worm in the Apple" and "The Autobiography of a Drummer," with artistic director Curt Columbus and host Bob Seay.

James Thurber's Comedy

March 6, 2009

Trinity Rep company actors Timothy Crowe, William Damkoehler, Janice Duclos, Barbara Meek, and Rachael Warren read and discuss three stories with artistic director Curt Columbus and host Bob Seay.

Looking Back

April 3, 2009

Angela Brazil, Janice Duclos, Anne Scurria and Joe Wilson, Jr. join Curt Columbus and Bob Seay for performances and discussion reflecting on years well shared.
 

"Season of Disbelief" by Ray Bradbury: Mrs. Bentley and the children agree to disagree

"The Cranes" by Peter Meinke: a couple reflects on the life they've shared

"The Richer, the Poorer" by Dorothy West: sisters find common ground

"Mr. Gallo at 87," a poem by David Dragone

"I thought you knew what I wanted"

May 2, 2009

"Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway: a couple waits for a train to Madrid.

"The Dill Pickle" by Katherine Mansfield: six years later, a couple meets by chance.

"A Piece of News" by Eudora Welty: a newspaper gives a woman hope that her husband will finally appreciate her.

"Wants" by Grace Paley: a woman encounters her ex-husband of 27 years.

Dorothy Parker, an encore presentation

June 5, 2009

Actors Janice Duclos, Phyllis Kay, and Fred Sullivan, Jr. join Curt Columbus and Bob Seay with Dorothy Parker's poems, stories "You Were Perfectly Fine," and "Here We Are," along with Alexander Woollcott's elegy "Our Mrs. Parker."

Americans in Paris: an encore presentation

July 3, 2009

Artistic director Curt Columbus and host Bob Seay welcome actors Janice Duclos, Stephen Thorne, Rachael Warren and Joe Wilson, Jr., performing and discussing the work of American writers in the City of Light: Langston Hughes, Sylvia Beach, David Sedaris and Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes).  

Soulmates, an encore presentation

August 7, 2009

This episode features Curt Columbus and company members Janice Duclos, Barbara Meek, and Fred Sullivan, Jr., performing and discussing the work of literary and theatrical soulmates Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper, and Robert Browning and Eli

Mothers and Daughters, an encore presentation

September 4, 2009

This 2008 episode features Curt Columbus and company members Anne Scurria, Barbara Meek and Janice Duclos, and a special guest from Trinity Rep's Young Actors Studio - Molly Allen, with stories and poems that explore the relationship between mothers and daughters: The Unnatural Mother by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; The Sempstress by Colette; Girl by Jamaica Kincaid; Where the Water Is by Jan Shoemaker; and Anne Sexton's poems Pain for a Daughter and Mothers.

Trinity Rep Radio Theater, live in Newport!

October 2, 2009

After three seasons recording the program in WRNI's Providence Studio, we hit the road and welcomed our first audience in August, at the Jane Pickens Theater and Event Center in Newport.  Stephen Berenson, Curt Columbus, Janice Duclos, Phyllis Kay and Joe Wilson, Jr. performed and discussed excerpts from Theophilus North, Thornton Wilder's beloved portrait of 1920s Newport. This special event is broadcast as a two-hour program, presented together with another chapter from the novel recorded in 2007.

John Cheever and the American Dream, and encore presentation

November 6, 2009

Trinity Rep company actors Janice Duclos, Fred Sullivan, Jr., and Rachael Warren read and discuss Cheever's "The Enormous Radio," "The Worm in the Apple" and "The Autobiography of a Drummer," with artistic director Curt Columbus and host Bob Seay.

Live in Providence: the Holidays

December 4, 2009

 

Recorded with a live audience, resident acting company members Stephen Berenson, Janice Duclos, Stephen Thorne and Rachael Warren read and discuss three stories with Curt Columbus and Bob Seay:

Fine Dining

February 5, 2010

Resident acting company members Angela Brazil, Rachael Warren, and Joe Wilson, Jr. join Curt Columbus and host Bob Seay with a delicious selection of food writing by Jhumpa Lahiri, Mary Cantwell, Evan Hunter and Langston Hughes. Dig in!

Robert Penn Warren, encore presentation

March 5, 2010

Resident company members Janice Duclos, Fred Sullivan, Jr. and Stephen Thorne join Curt Columbus and Bob Seay with three stories by the author of All The King's Men: "A Christian Education," "The Confession of Brother Grimes," and "The Patented Gate and the Mean Hamburger."

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