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

“The Happy Prince” by Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter but Kelly and Katai are looking at the stars this week as they fly guest-less through Oscar Wilde’s oh-so-witty fairy tale “The Happy...

“Bliss” by Katherine Mansfield (w/ Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang)

The Las Culturistas themselves (Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang) join Kelly and Katai to read and interrupt Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss,” the story of a dinner party, an alluring guest,...

“The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw” by Edgar Rice Burroughs (w/ Micah Gordon)

Did we discover the source material for Encino Man? Was it written by the creator of Tarzan? Are we going to interrupt the hell out of it? Yes! Yes!...

“William Wilson” by Edgar Allen Poe (w/ Travis McElroy)

While her faithful co-host Katai recovers from an unforeseen macadamia nut attack, Kelly is joined by professional podcaster and voracious reader Travis McElroy (My Brother, My Brother and Me;...

“The Mortal Immortal” by Mary Shelley (w/ Keith Kingbay and Jesse Neil)

Before Frankenstein there was… “The Mortal Immortal!” Keith Kingbay and Jesse Neil (New Player Has Joined podcast) join Kelly and Katai on a journey through Mary Shelley’s tale of...

“Roman Fever” by Edith Wharton (w/ Amy Vorpahl)

We catch the public domain FEVER with guest Amy Vorpahl (Geek and Sundry, Nerdist) and the only cure is constant interruption. So lay back, relax, arch your vigorous brows,...

“Love Story” by Irving E. Cox Jr. (w/ Nick Wiger)

“Problematic” does not BEGIN to describe Irving E Cox Jr’s urtext of the men’s rights movement– “Love Story” (1956)– a paranoid nightmare about the supposed feminization of postwar American...

“Cautionary Tales for Children” by Hilaire Belloc (w/ Steven Ray Morris)

Caution, Children! Steven Ray Morris (See Jurassic Right, The Purrrcast) joins Kelly and Katai for a romp through Hilaire Belloc’s macabre and misogynistic “Cautionary Tales for Children” (1907), encountering...

“Jokester” by Isaac Asimov (w/ Moujan Zolfaghari)

WHAT. IS. FUNNY. Moujan Zolfaghari (Mission to Zyxx) joins Kelly and Katai for a sci-fi journey to the outer reaches of comedy as they read and interrupt overachiever Isaac...

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