Public Domain Theater

Hosted ByKelly Nugent & Lindsay Katai

Masterpiece Theatre meets Mystery Science Theater 3000 in a podcast of highbrow readings and lowbrow commentary. Comedians Kelly Nugent and Lindsay Katai come together to read aloud classic and not-so-classic literature from the public domain and provide real-time commentary with the help of special guests. Subscribe now to experience the best and worst from the likes of Edgar Allen Poe, Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sherwood Anderson, Jack London, and many more... no one escapes their scathing and/or fawning reactions. Produced by the Forever Dog Podcast Network.


All Episodes

“Adolescents Only” by Irving Cox Jr. (w/ Nick Wiger)

Its the very last episode of Public Domain Theater! Kelly and Katai are joined by PDT legend Nick Wiger (I Love You America, Doughboys) to read and interrupt Irving...

“The New Dress” by Virginia Woolf

In the penultimate episode of Public Domain Theater, Kelly and Katai and no guest (no matter what Kelly says) read and interrupt Virginia Woolfs The New Dress, and deliver...

“The Strategy of the Were-Wolf Dog” by Willa Cather (w/ Nicholas Mandernach)

Writer Nicholas Mandernach (People of Earth, Young Sheldon) joins Kelly and Katai to read and interrupt Willa Cather’s holiday fable, “The Strategy of the Were-Wolf Dog,” and talk reindeer...

“Nackles: A Christmas Story” by Donald Westlake (w/ Zach Reino)

Zach Reino (Off Book) joins Kelly and Katai to read and interrupt Donald Westlakes creepy Christmas story, Nackles, and to analyze cool boat slang, Santas problematic position on capitalism,...

“The Sound of Silence” by Barbara Constant (w/ Patrick Ehlers)

Comedian and podcaster Patrick Ehlers (Nintendo Cartridge Society, Same Day Shipping) joins Kelly and Katai read and interrupt Barbara Constants The Sound of Silence, and to deliver measured discussion...

“Where Angels Fear” by Manly Wade Wellman

Kelly and Katai read and interrupt the extremely handsome Manly Wade Wellmans Where Angels Fear, and talk g-g-g-ghosts, nice-looking skulls, and Dr. Michael Crichton, medical wellman. Follow Public Domain...

“Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti

Kelly and Katai, guests in their own right, read and interrupt Christina Rossettis Goblin Market, and discuss what forms of payment goblin salesmen accept, the names of all known...

“The New Mother” by Lucy Clifford (w/ Max Silvestri)

Kelly and Katai are joined by comedian Max Silvestri (Netflix’s The Comedy Lineup) to read and interrupt Lucy Cliffords The New Mother, and to discuss who wears bonnets when,...

“The Swindler” by Ethel M. Dell (w/ Jon Gabrus)

Kelly and Katai are joined by Jon Gabrus (High and Mighty, Raised by TV) to read and interrupt Ethel M. Dell’s apparently romantic outing, “The Swindler,” and discuss rom-com...

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