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CPF Radio Hour – Live Broadcasts

Broadcast History

Links to podcast recordings before June 2019 here.

5-21-2019: “The Misadventures of Darklight and Nightbird” by Doug Simpson

4-30-2019: “Oppenheimer’s Ghost” by Larry Bliss

4-16-2019: “NCISSVUCSI” by Annie Taft

3-19-2019: “Rick Danger: The Kase of the Kidnapped Kerbopple“

  • 2019 Radio Play Contest Entry #5
  • Featuring music by Thursday’s Flight

3-12-2019: “Black Spectre: A Trail Grown Cold“

  • 2019 Radio Play Contest Entry #4
  • Featuring music by Kevin MacLeod

2-26-2019: “A Guy Walks Into a Bar“

  • 2019 Radio Play Contest Entry #3

2-26-2019: “The (Dog) Park“

  • 2019 Radio Play Contest Entry #2

2-19-2019: “The Daughter in the Basement“

  • 2019 Radio Play Contest Entry #1

2-12-2019: “The Great Celestial Cow” at Burning Coal

  • Interview with performer Seema Kukreja

1-22-2019: “Grandma’s Opal Brooch” by Ken Walsh

  • Featuring “Ballad” composed and sung by Eddie Cisneros

1-15-2019: “Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel”

  • Live performance of three classic Marx Brothers’ radio scripts

1-8-2019: “This Doesn’t End Well” at Sonorous Road

  • Interview with local playwright Brook North.

12-18-2018: Two Plays by Laura Arwood

  • “Misanthrope Under the Mistletoe”
  • “How I Wonder What You Are”
11-13-2018: “1940s Radio Christmas Carol” at Cary Players
  • Interview with the production’s creative team
11-6-2018: “The Best Time of Year” at Moonlight Stage Company
  • Interview with the production’s creative team
  • “Beware”
  • “Last Laugh”
10-23-2018: Bar Plays 4.0 at Cary Playwrights’ Forum
  • “Three Men Walk Into a Bar” by Laura Arwood
  • Interview with producer Marina Enslen
10-16-2018: Evening of Plays by Mark Cornell – Guest Host Yvette Holder

10-9-2018: An Evening of One Acts – Guest Host Yvette Holder

  • Plays by Henry Kimmel, Wim Coleman, & Tom Reilly
10-2-2018: “Meanwhile” by Ann Chenoweth-Carr
9-25-2018: A Night of Plays – with Guest Host Yvette Holder
  • Plays by Eric Weil, Marilynn Barner Anselmi, Andy Rassler, and Henry W. Kimmel
9-18-2018: “Medicine Chests” by Ken Walsh
  • Evening of three short audio plays by Robert O. Connell
8-28-2018: “Drop Dead” @ Holly Springs Stageworks Theatre
  • Interview with director Mia Peters and the cast
8-21-2018: “Open Doors 2018” at Sonorous Road
  • Interview with performers Karen Williams and Elena Mulligan

8-14-2018: “Chekhov’s Museum of Marital Mischief – Part I” by Roy Proctor

8-7-2018: “Burn This” at Sonorous Road
  • Interview with actress Danielle Koppel
  • “Lost in Translation”
  • “When You Wish Upon a Bar”
7-24-2018: The Miracle Worker at Seed Art Share
  • Interview with director Dustin Britt and the cast
  • Includes a comedic radio sketch
  • Interview with cast members, directors, and producers
  • Interview with the 2018 Managing Director of the Women’s Theatre Festival
7-3-2018: “First Date” at NRACT
  • Interview with Elaine Petrone, Lauren Bamford, and Sean McCracken

6-26-2018: Hyper Heart Max – Glenn Gregg’s last CPF Radio Hour broadcast

6-19-2018: MAYHEM

6-12-2018: Cool Quotes & Lessons Learned

6-5-2018: Razing the Statue

5-22-2018: Advice With Erica

5-15-2018: Dial A Host

4-10-2018: The Member Of The Wedding at Star Pocket Theatre
  • Interview with Mackie Raymond, Dr. Joy Bryant, and Areon Mobasher
  • Features Camille Watson, Laura J. Parker, Benjamin Tarlton
  • Plus Glenn Greggs and Dustin Britt
3-27-2018: Maribeth McCarthy interview
3-20-2018: Erica Reid, interview
  • Includes reviews of local productions Framing the Shot and Girl In Space!
3-13-2018: No Exit at Pequod Productions
  • Interview with the production’s creative team
3-6-2018: Girl In Space at NC State University
  • Interview with Creative Artist Award winning playwright Peter Lalush
2-27-2018: Allan Maule
  • Interview with the playwright behind Everscape and Framing The Shot
2-6-2018:  Julya Mirro
  • V Day Raleigh
  • Upcoming performance of The Vagina Monologues at NRACT
  • Interview with the internationally-produced NC playwright
  • A discussion with Lorelei Lemon
11-21-2017: Ben Vigeant
11-14-2017: “Dawn’s Early Light“
  • Full Nelson producer/writer/director/actor Paul Newell
11-7-2017: “Bar Plays 3.0″
  • “The Donor Agency” by Michelle Corbitt
  • Featuring Laurel Ullman and Michael Parker
  • Featuring producer Sean Malone, director Noelle Barnard Azarelo, and Michelle Corbitt
10-31-2017: Susan Ryan
  • Interview with the UNC professor and producer of UNC student theatre

10-17-2017: Libby Heily

10-3-2017: Stephen Winchell

  • Glenn Greggs discusses “protest as theatre” and “theatre as protest”
9-12-2017: “Yes To Nothing“, a punk rock musical at Little Green Pig
  • Interview with creator Mara Thomas
8-22-2017: “Conversations With Hitler” at Sonorous Road
  • Interview with director Julya Mirro
8-8-2017: “ShakesBEER” by Chuck Keith & Will Shakespeare
7-25-2017: “Sweet Tea and Baby Dreams” by Maribeth McCarthy
7-4-2017: “Licked Cupcake“, a devised work for the Women’s Theatre Festival
  • Featuring guests Emily Tomasik and Kristen Dewey
  • “Resume Watching” by Sarah Duncan
  • “Shut Up I’m On a Diet” by Catherine Weingarten
  • A segment about “Space Girl” by Mora V. Harris
  • Featuring guest Lorelei Lemon
  • Stage directions/audio assistance by GK Lai
6-6-2017: “Click to Subscribe” by Christian O’Neal

5-30-2017: “Reading Signs“ by Marilyn Barner Anselmi

5-23-2017: “Inference and Deduction” by Libby Heily

4-25-2017 “Sister From the Lake” by Debra Kaufman

4-18-2017 “All Inclusive” by Libby Heily

4-11-2017 “Designer Darlings” by Glenn Greggs – the inaugural broadcast!