No Script: The Podcast

Themed Month is here! Join Jackson and Jacob as they explore four "classic" plays. First up, William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," also titled "What You Will." Sometimes referred to as Shakespeare's perfect comedy, "Twelfth Night" is a love-triangle-romantic-comedy with a heavy dose of disguise, mistaken identity (twins are involved, of course), and dramatic irony. Listen in! 

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What happens when the music you love is also tangled up with the history you’re trying to forget? Lauren Yee’s play "Cambodian Rock Band" follows a father and daughter as they return to Cambodia, confronting the ghosts of the Khmer Rouge regime, and the choices made so long ago. Oh, and there’s a live rock concert happening along the way.

Jackson and Jacob dig into Yee’s wildly theatrical collision of history, music, memory, and family. Join us for the conversation!

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Please enjoy these other conversations on "Cambodian Rock Band":

This interview with Lauren Yee for "Backstage Pass": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3v9kdD9k7c

This interview with Yee for "Hyphen": https://hyphenmagazine.com/blog/2020/11/%E2%80%9C-play-gateway-many-other-stories%E2%80%9D-conversation-lauren-yee-her-play-cambodian-rock-band

This panel on Asian American Arts Activism with Brooke Ishibashi and Joseph Ngo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In36OnELzCY

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Gracie Gardner's play "Athena" follows two rival fencers who become training partners and, maybe, friends? Listen in as Jackson and Jacob celebrate Gardner's brilliance in dialogue writing and explore the play's structural twists and turns. 

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Jackson and Jacob discuss Diana Son’s play "Stop Kiss." The story follows Callie and Sara, two women whose unexpected friendship develops into something more... and whose first kiss has devastating consequences. It’s a tender, often playful, and popular play. Listen in as J&J examine how Diana Son expertly moves her characters through a series of difficult, can't-go-back decisions!

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Please enjoy these other conversations on "Stop Kiss":

Marie Bernard's review in The Michigan Daily: https://www.michigandaily.com/uncategorized/stop-kiss-provides-simple-love-story/

This interview with Director Roberta Emerson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_cYBbtrxaU

Diana Son's interview with "Women in Theatre": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJzjMhIa-T0

This review for Rescripted: https://rescripted.org/2020/01/23/stop-kiss-pride-arts/

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What happens when a community built on inclusivity, empathy, and (especially) consensus suddenly has to make a decision that not everyone can agree on?

In Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day, the progressive parents and administrators of a Berkeley private school find themselves facing a mumps outbreak—and a seemingly simple question about vaccination quickly becomes anything but simple. This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob chat about Spector’s sharply funny, deeply uncomfortable play. Listen in!

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Season 17 has arrived! Jackson and Jacob discuss the landmark musical "A Chorus Line" by Michael Bennett, Marvin Hamlisch, James Kirkwood Jr., Nicholas Dante, and Edward Kleban. Set during an audition for a Broadway musical, this deeply theatrical piece asks what happens when performers are stripped of their characters and asked to reveal themselves. Listen in as Jackson and Jacob explore the show's unforgettable characters, its innovative structure, and its complicated portrait of ambition, identity, and the lives of performers.

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We want to keep the conversation going! Have you read this play? Have you seen it? Comment and tell us your favorite themes, characters, plot points, etc. Did we get something wrong? Let us know. We'd love to hear from you. Find us on social media at: 

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Jacob hosts Eve Bianco, Ana Radice-Morras, and Violet Levinson of Red Door Productions to talk about their upcoming production of "Crimes of the Heart" by Beth Henley. 

See the show at Theatre 154 on Christopher Street in NYC (July 15-26, 2026).

Get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/red-door-productions-presents-crimes-of-the-heart-by-beth-henley-tickets-1991060722218

Listen to our previous conversation about Crimes of the Heart (Season 8, Episode 19): https://open.spotify.com/episode/5A4qNrmbsOqmNabWI129bi 

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Director Cora Therber joins the podcast to talk about "untitled hamlet play" by Rory O'Neill, which opens this weekend by LOVECHILD Theater in NYC. 

See the show at the John DeSotelle Studio, May 29 - 31, 2026. 

Get tickets through the LOVECHILD Insta (@lovechildtheaterco) or here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lovechild-presents-untitled-hamlet-play-tickets-1988245208942

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Jackson and Jacob discuss Dave Malloy's hit musical "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812." This fiery piece adapts a small segment of Tolstoy's "War and Peace." Listen in to this final episode of Season 16!

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Rajiv Joseph's play "Mr. Wolf" follows the family of a kidnapped child when that child returns home. It's a poignant, theatrical story in which Joseph assembles the most complicated possible cast of characters to undergo this highly unlikely event. Listen in as Jackson and Jacob discuss Joseph's exploration of messy human relationship... and infinity? 

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