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."

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!

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:

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.

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.

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.

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

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).  

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."

"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.