No Script: The Podcast

This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob dive into the tumultuous disagreements that frame one self-defense workshop. Liliana Padilla's How to Defend Yourself won the Yale Prize for Drama. ------------------------------ Check out these other conversations on How to Defend Yourself: Liliana Padilla at Victory Gardens Theatre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43cdBYwpoqM New York Liv

This week, No Script explores the moving, imaginative musical by Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori: Caroline, or Change! Talking washing machines, apocalyptic buses, and singing moons feature prominently in this through-composed character study. ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcas

Jackson and Jacob do Christmas in springtime! Listen in as the boys discuss the legendary Langston Hughes' gospel song play Black Nativity. ------------------------------ Check out these other conversations on Black Nativity: Seattle Channel, with Director Jackie Moscou: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wod7f1f0TcI The legendary Elma Lewis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0SUtySiO2

Who owns the stories of our lives? If every memory is necessarily a flawed, singular perspective, how can we trust the reliability of memoirs and autobiographies? Jackson and Jacob discuss these issues, which are explored in Pulitzer Prize nominated play Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz. Listen in! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For a

A witty procedural play about an American city with a dark secret, Tracy Letts' The Minutes is having its moment with productions all over the country. Listen in as Jackson and Jacob discuss the many layered storytelling decisions Letts expertly makes throughout. ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure

Jackson and Jacob discuss a community-oriented, experiential one-person show: Duncan Macmillan's Every Brilliant Thing. Listen in! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodcast ----------------------------- We want to keep the convers

In the final episode of Mini-Mini Month, Jackson and Jacob discuss a storytelling play set deep in the night. Marco Ramirez' 3:59AM: A Drag Race for Two Actors is fast paced, engaging, and mysterious. Listen in! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https://www.patr

It's the third episode of Mini-Mini Month and Jackson and Jacob needed a laugh. So they turned to Jen Silverman's hilarious, ghost-hunting-turned-romance play Ghost Bros. Listen in! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodcast ------

In the second week of Mini-Mini Month, Jackson and Jacob discuss a charming, poetic play by Tasha Gordon-Solomon. Coffee Break is about a friendship... and more than a friendship. Listen in! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue. https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodca

Themed Month has arrived! This season, Jackson and Jacob are spending four episodes talking about "mini-mini" plays... plays that run about 10-minutes. First up is one of the first pieces of the theatre J&J ever worked on together: Cover by Jeffrey Sweet. Listen in! ------------------------------ Check out these other voices discussing the play: One of the early reviews from 19