Open-door Playhouse Debuts Linda Shayne's New Play Take-off

LOS ANGELES - Feb. 9, 2026 - PRLog -- At the end of the month, Linda Shayne's new play, Take-Off is an evocative, quick-witted, edgy play about two strangers who meet on a flight from Houston to Los Angeles. As the two characters, Alycia and Tyler experience extensive turbulence along the way, they reveal themselves by sharing intimate secrets with each other.

Bernadette Armstrong directs Christine Uhebe as Alycia and David Phurdham as Tyler.  Linda Shayne is the playwright. She graduated from UC Berkeley, worked in mental hospitals and published articles about San Quentin State Prison ex-offenders, before she became a writer/director in film and TV. Shayne has written movies for Disney, Showtime, Imagine Entertainment and directed for Nickelodeon, Warner Bros. and Paramount. Shayne created
a dramedy TV series for Quincy Jones, two animated series for Warner Bros. and a dramedy TV series to film in Thailand. She directed an award-winning documentary playing festivals and adapted a WW2 spy book for a Swiss producer. Recently, Shayne was hired to write/direct a rom-com movie.

Founded by playwright and filmmaker Bernadette Armstrong, Open-Door Playhouse is a Theater Podcast- like the radio dramas of the 1940s and 1950s. The Playhouse launched on
September 15, 2020. At the time, Open-Door Playhouse provided Playwrights, Actors and Directors a creative outlet during the shutdown. Since its inception. Open-Door Playhouse has presented Short and One-Act plays from Playwrights across the country and internationally. In 2021 Open-Door Playhouse received a Communicator Award for Content for the Play Custody and in 2023 the play What's Prison Like was nominated for a Webby Award in the Crime & Justice Category.

"Truly honored to have my play premiere at Open-Door", said screenwriter, playwright Linda Shayne.

Plays are produced by Bernadette Armstrong, Sound Engineer is David Peters, sound effects are provided by Audio Jungle, and music from Karaoke Version. All plays are recorded at The Oak House Studio in Altadena, CA.  To listen, go to https://opendoorplayhouse.org

Open-Door Playhouse: Selected as one of the Top 50 Audio Drama Podcasts by FeedSpot, and as one of the Top 100 Audio Drama Podcasts by MillionPodcasts.

Open-Door Playhouse receives submissions from Canada, France, Greece, Australia, and the Czech Republic as well as the United States.