Playtime - 2025
on WIOX Community Radio Catskills
Calendar 2025
All shows at 6PM ET unless otherwise stated
January 14: A conversation with Djahari Clark and David Kammerer, co-directors of Gloaming Project, about “THE BALLAD TREE”
Djahari and David will discuss the development of “THE BALLAD TREE,” an evening of live music, song, dance, and puppetry of Appalachian ballads.
Host(s): Michelle Macau and Arnie Schwartz
Special Guest(s): Djahari Clark and David Kammerer
January 28: N/A
Host(s):
Special Guest(s):
February 11: A conversation with Diane Galusha, Historical Society of Middletown, NY
Host(s): Elizabeth Sherr
Special Guest(s): Diane Galusha
February 25: Monologues: Stand Alone or Not!
Erwin Karl and Tim Main will host the performances of four monologues for the stage: LIKE A ROSE by Shelley Stolaroff Segal featuring Paul Eisemann and directed by Pip Merrick; an excerpt from THE LAST DAY OF DOROTHY LILLIAN PHELPS written and performed by Patricia Van Tassel; a monologue from FAIR HOUSING, written by Jessica Feder-Birnbaum and performed by Caroline G. Pleasant; SHE TRIED TO RUIN MY NIGHT, written and performed by Raymond Alvin.
Host(s): Erwin Karl and Tim Main
Special Guest(s): Actors per above
March 11: A conversation with Pam West-Finkle, aka “Angel Pam West” or “Miss Pam,” as she is known to many families in the Catskills.
The conversation will highlight Pam’s musical career, The Community Music Network, her teaching, and the recent Community Sing! events at The Open Eye Theater.
Host(s): Elizabeth Sherr
Special Guest(s): Pam West-Finkle
March 25: Leicester Bay Theatricals - The final segment in the series “Meet the Publisher”
Featuring playwright Alice Jankell with readings of two of her short plays, A BOY AND HIS DOG and AT THIS HOUR. Actors are Lisa Ruth Mays, Rebecca Newman, and Ron Brockway.
Host(s): Amie Brockway and Erwin Karl
Special Guest(s): Michael Perry, publisher of Leicester Bay Theatricals, Alice Jankell, Lisa Ruth Mays, Rebecca Newman, and Ron Brockway
April 8: A conversation with Rod Saquillo and Kristin McCally, Director of "Dance Nation" a play by Clare Barron. Also joining us will be Annalee Parker, the President of the College Players and the lead actor of this year's production of "Legally Blonde."
Host(s): Elizabeth Sherr
Special Guest(s): Rod Saquillo, Kristin McCally and Annalee Parker
April 22: A Preview of Catskill Mountain Shakespeare’s “Pericles” and “Anne of Green Gables”
Host(s): Michelle Macau
Special Guest(s): Catskill Mountain Shakespeare cast and crew, R.N. Sandberg, Playwright of “Anne of Green Gables”
May 6: A Live Radio Performance from WIOX in Roxbury of “Anne of Green Gables”
Host(s): Michelle Macau
Special Guest(s): The Cast of “Anne of Green Gables”
May 20: A conversation about the upcoming ”SUMMER SHORTCUTS XV”
Host(s): Tim Main and Erwin Karl
Special Guest(s): Actors/Directors Beth Sherr, Pip Merrick, Willow Harrington, Darlene DeMaille, and Lisa Ruth Mays
June 3: A conversation about Celebrating Representation in Theater
Host(s): Marge Helenchild and Beth Sherr
Special Guest(s): Performance artists LaRaisha DiEvelyn Dionne and M. Can Yasar
June 17: A conversation with PATRICIA VAN TASSEL AND WILLIAM ELECTRIC BLACK
Host(s): Erwin Karl
Special Guest(s): PATRICIA VAN TASSEL AND WILLIAM ELECTRIC BLACK
Patricia Van Tassel will talk about her play THE LAST DAY OF DOROTHY LILLIAN PHELPS, A funny new play about living, and with Ian Ellis James aka William Electric Black will talk about his one man show ELECTRIC’S WEST SIDE STORY (on the Lower East Side).
July 1: Performing Arts Events in the Catskills - 2025
Host(s): Michelle Macau
Special Guest(s): HEIDI STONIER, MARSHALL SHNIDER, AND BETH RYAN TROXELL
A conversation with Heidi Stonier of The Arts Inn Collective in Fleischmanns, NY, Marshall Shnider of the Catskill Public Theater in Roscoe, NY; and Beth Ryan Troxell of Round the Bend Theatre in Saugerties, NY. The discussion will highlight their 2025 season and bringing the performing arts to the Catskills.
July 15: THE HUNDRED ACRE WOOD - Meet the Cast
Host(s): Amie Brockway and Michelle Macau
Special Guest(s): Hope Keil, Elizabeth Sherr, Brandon Hargrove, Ron Brockway, and Randi Perkins
The cast, playing Christopher Robin and friends Winnie-the-Pooh, Owl, Eeyore, and Rabbit, will perform a reading performance of the A. A. Milne story
“in which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets into a Tight Place”. The actors will share their experiences performing for very young audiences (ages 2-8) and give a preview of THE HUNDRED ACRE WOOD stories performing Saturdays, July 19 and 26 at 12 noon at The Open Eye Theater on Main Street in Margaretville.
July 29: A Conversation with the Six Directors of Summer Shortcuts XV
Host(s): Amie Brockway and Erwin Karl
Special Guest(s): The directors of Summer Shortcuts XV: Darlene DeMaille, Willow Harrington, Tim Main, Pip Merrick, Ron Nash, Elizabeth Sherr.
Now in its 15th year, Summer Shortcuts XV presents six sizzling new ten-minute plays selected from more than a hundred submissions—dramedy, mystery, curiosity, passion, surprise twists. The plays are by writers from near and far. Two are by New York writers from Peekskill and Huntington. Others come from as far away as San Francisco and Santa Cruz.