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Play On Podcasts are epic audio adventures reimagining timeless tales, featuring original music composition and the voices of extraordinarily gifted artists. This is where Theatre meets Podcast, combining the modern-day audio phenomenon with the power of live performance.

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S23 · E7
Monday · 40 min
Titus Andronicus - Episode 7 - Think Thou My Rage Is Mute?
Titus serves Tamora her sons baked in a pie before a bloody climax leaves Titus, Lavinia, Tamora, and Emperor Saturninus dead, enabling Lucius to become emperor and sentence Aaron to death.
S23 · E6
October 26 · 37 min
Titus Andronicus - Episode 6 - Smile At Me Thou Imp
Titus shoots threatening messages into the court as Lucius raises an army of Goths to march on Rome, capturing Aaron and his baby.
S23 · E5
October 19 · 34 min
Titus Andronicus - Episode 5 - This Little Piggy Cried
Lavinia reveals that Chiron and Demetrius raped and mutilated her, prompting Titus to begin planning his revenge as his madness worsens.
S23 · E4
October 12 · 38 min
Titus Andronicus - Episode 4 - Wash Those Hands
Lavinia survives without hands or tongue as Titus cuts off his own hand in a vain attempt to save the lives of his youngest sons.
S23 · E3
October 5 · 29 min
Titus Andronicus - Episode 3 - The Better You Love Me
The royal hunt spirals into a dark web of murder, framing, and sexual violence orchestrated by Aaron, Tamora, Chiron and Demetrius.
S23 · E2
September 28 · 32 min
Titus Andronicus - Episode 2 - Hunt Together
As Bassianus, Titus and the remaining Andronici strike an uneasy peace with Saturninus, Aaron the Moor celebrates his lover Tamora’s new power as empress and persuades her quarreling sons to rape Lavinia.
S23 · E1
September 21 · 31 min
Titus Andronicus - Episode 1 - Be Not Gauled
A bloody cycle of revenge is unleashed when the victorious general Titus refuses the imperial crown, permits a human sacrifice, and alienates his own family by following the precepts rigid Roman law.
September 14 · 3 min
Introducing....Titus Andronicus
Next Chapter Podcasts presents Shakespeare’s bloodiest tragedy: a brutal revenge thriller that descends into a savage spiral of betrayal, mutilation and cannibalism.
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September 7 · 30 min
Love's Labour's Lost - Episode 1 - All Kinds of Woman
Four young men at Howard University vow to swear off women and wine and devote themselves entirely to their studies for three years.
August 31 · 43 min
Introducing...Death of an Artist
In February 2024, celebrated children’s book author and illustrator Petra Mathers and her husband, photographer Michael Mathers, mailed letters to dozens of friends and family members to let them know they had died by suicide. Petra and Michael were by all accounts healthy, happy, and in love. Why did they choose to die together? And what did that decision do to the people left to mourn them?
S23 · E8
August 24 · 2 hr 56 min
Full Play - Troilus and Cressida
Next Chapter Podcasts presents the complete Play On Podcast series, Troilus and Cressida, in its entirety.
S23 · E7
August 17 · 34 min
Troilus and Cressida - Epiosde 7 - The Baking
Troilus vows revenge after Hector ignores warnings and goes to battle where he is trapped and slaughtered by Achilles and his Myrmidons.
S23 · E6
August 10 · 24 min
Troilus and Cressida - Episode 6 - The Heating
The Greeks and Trojans negotiate a possible truce while Troilus rages in despair watching Cressida succumb to Diomedes’ amorous overtures.
S23 · E5
August 3 · 32 min
Troilus and Cressida - Episode 5 - The Molding
Troilus and Cressida exchange love tokens and bid each other a tearful farewell as Ajax and Hector fight to a draw and the Greek Commanders fawn over their newly delivered prize.
S23 · E4
July 27 · 37 min
Troilus and Cressida - Episode 4 - The Kneading
Troilus and Cressida’s budding romance is cut short when the Trojans trade Cressida to the Greeks in exchange for Antenor.
S23 · E3
July 20 · 34 min
Troilus and Cressida - Episode 3 - The Rising
Agamemnon gives up on Achilles and encourages Ajax to be their champion, and Pandarus sings a love song to Helen and Paris before finally bringing Troilus and Cressida together in person.
S23 · E2
July 13 · 34 min
Troilus and Cressida - Episode 2 - The Sifting
The Greeks receive Hector’s challenge as the Trojans decide to keep Helen and continue the war.
S23 · E1
July 6 · 1 hr
Troilus and Cressida - Bonus Content Episode 1 - Theatermaker Lillian Groag
Renowned theatremaker Lillian Groag explains why “Troilus and Cressida” is her favorite of all the plays Shakespeare ever wrote, but not without wondering out loud what happened to him along the way.
S23 · E1
June 29 · 35 min
Troilus and Cressida - Episode 1 - The Milling
During the endless Trojan War, the lovesick Trojan Prince Troilus agonizes over his pursuit of Cressida as the frustrated Greek generals plot to overcome their own divided and insubordinate warriors.
June 22 · 1 min
Introducing...Troilus and Cressida
NEXT CHAPTER PODCASTS PRESENTS THE PLAY ON PODCAST SERIES, “TROILUS AND CRESSIDA”

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