Theater for your ears lets you focus on the words…and the magic of audible emotion. On our podcast channel Filament, you’ll experience new plays, eerie tales, fascinating interviews and lots of insight about the arts. Filament is also the home of our annual Lights Up! festival of new plays. Scroll down to listen, or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Filament is sponsored in part by San Jose Water Company.
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Play on Words is a literary arts series that unites emerging and established artists. Hear an original story by Melissa Flores Anderson, performed by Play on Words co-founder Melinda Marks. City Lights’ Rebecca Wallace also interviews co-founder Julia Halprin Jackson.
Doug Brook has played Tevye, F.D.R. and J.P. Morgan; written plays that have premiered on both coasts; and directed everything from intimate dramas to iconic musicals. And he’s the king of puns. Enjoy this interview with Doug, conducted by City Lights’ Rebecca Wallace.
In the final week of City Lights’ “Lights Up!” 2021 festival of new plays, we bring you “Gram Scams” by Cary Pepper and “Until Tomorrow” by Keenan Flagg.
“Backseat Driver” by Scott Mullen and “Widow in Flight” by Lee Brady are the new plays performed on this week’s episode of City Lights’ annual new-works festival, Lights Up!
“Bar Belle” by Janis Holm and “Take This Job and Shove It” by Ron Rosenfeld, performed by our artists, are the new plays featured in this week’s episode of the 2021 Lights Up! festival.
When the pandemic shutdown happened, we converted City Lights’ annual new-play festival Lights Up! into a podcast — and we enjoyed it so much that Lights Up! is now a podcast tradition. Radio plays allow you to focus on the playwrights’ words and get caught up in the story.
What do Michael Mitnick and Houdini’s bathtub have to do with each other? Find out in this hilarious bonus story that came up while taping our previous episode.
We were thrilled to share a special evening with stellar writer Michael Mitnick on City Lights’ streaming series The Next Stage in March 2021, in conversation with City Lights actor and sound designer George Psarras. Now enjoy the program in audio form.
James Monroe Iglehart is one of everyone’s favorite Bay Area-to-Broadway stories. We’ve cheered him on for years at TheatreWorks, Foothill Music Theatre and other local stages. Today, this musical-theater powerhouse has fans all over the world.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we released a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” adapted by Max Tachis and directed by Caitlin Papp. The cast includes City Lights favorites Melissa Mei Jones, Maria Giere Marquis and Jeffrey Bracco.
Filament and the Lights Up! festival of new plays are generously sponsored by San Jose Water Company