Month: March 2016 (Page 3 of 5)

Best Foote Forward

March 18, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

ken-foote (1) Ken Foote muses over at CBS Local about the sunny days of radio drama after seeing an episode of The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson and the titanic voice actor Orson Welles. While talking about the difficulties of working as an actor and as part of the crew during live radio drama, Foote considers the powerful gateway show CBS Radio Mystery Theater starring the unforgettable E.G. Marshall as your host and narrator.

Go check out the article, but then consider mentioning to Mr. Foote how audio drama has come back in the modern age!

Living Nostalgia

March 17, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

Carlene Philips from this Harvard Press article is feeling more than a little nostalgic for a time not experienced, and a medium Philips thought was dead:

I was filled with admiration—and a bit of envy—at the camaraderie, passion, spirit of collaboration, and mutual support among the cast members, to say nothing of their incredible talents. During the deliberately over-the-top production, I laughed with abandon and felt the sting of sarcasm, the pain of rejection, and the bliss of, ah, true love.

Philips is speaking of the classic audio drama The Philadelphia Story which is being performed live on stage for the upcoming Old Time Radio Theatre presentation Saturday, March 19, at 7:30 p.m. in Volunteers Hall, sponsored by the Harvard Friends of the Arts. This has become a bit of a tradition now, for eight years at Harvard. About time the old ivy leagues were lining ’em up again!

The Pictures are Better

March 17, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

The Kiggins Theatre has become a regular destination for Willamette Radio Workshop.

“Radio is better because the pictures are better,” says Sam Mowry, Willamette Radio Workshop director and one of our all time favourite actors (catch his performance in EVP‘s Muse of Madness)

From the article: The Magic of Old Time Radio Rings Through Kiggins:

The Willamette Radio Workshop has carved itself a successful niche performing holiday and other themed shows — like “The War of the Worlds” at Halloween, “A Radio Christmas Carol” in December and “The Hobbit” for author J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday every January — but director Mowry said he loves branching out farther. Last Halloween, instead of “The War of the Words,” Willamette Radio tried two early science fiction classics, “R.U.R.” and “The Fall of the City”; and earlier in the year it was an original Superman script, locally relevant and blatantly political, about oil trains and environmental danger.

“We’re always looking for new and different things and John Barber has helped us push that boundary,” Mowry said. “This year for Women’s History Month, isn’t it great that we can do two of the greatest shows ever written for radio — and they were written by a woman?”

You can believe in the magic of radio drama as well. Willamette Radio Workshop is a little bit of fairy-dust in Portland and beyond!

Beacon in the Dark

March 16, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

Beacon Arts Centre in Inverclyde, Scotland is celebrating new writers work by presenting a collection of four new radio plays staged for an audience and dubbed “The Podcast Sessions”.

For over a decade now, we at the Sonic Society have believed that audio stories are uniquely positioned to tell stories in the most imaginative and inexpensive way while captivating a wide audience from around the world.

A group called Toasted Fiction, founded by Christopher Patrick, who is a Greenock-based writer and director is committed to supporting the development of new writing and new writers.

The Podcast Sessions will be presented Thursday 31 March, 7:30 pm. For tickets (£5 or concessions £3.50) call 01475 723723 or book online. Details about all four shows can be found at this Inverclyde Now Article.

Support new writers. Support new Audio Drama!

Episode 463- Boston Beats

March 15, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

Tonight we bring the world premier of Greater Bostonfrom Alexander Danner and part one of a supercut of the first decade of the humour of Cayenne Chris Conroy’sTeknikal Diffikulties! Joy!

Solid as a Rock

March 15, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

635932368595261959-Pamela-McNeill-Black-and-Silver-3 Singer Pamela McNeill will be featured tomorrow night at Granite City Radio Theatre. The program is put together by the Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and includes comedy, trivia, music and Shade’s Brigade, a crime noir radio drama.

What: Granite City Radio Theatre.
When: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 16.
Where: Pioneer Place on Fifth, 22 Fifth Ave. S.
Tickets: $12. Buy by visiting www.ppfive.com or calling the box office at 203-0331.

Additional details on the show can be found in this SCTimes article.

Paying Audio Drama Gig

March 13, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

On Craigslist on March 12th in the LA area we see this ad:

SAG/AFTRA Actors Wanted for Internet Audio Drama (Voice Acting)

We are currently casting four to five SAG actors for the pilot episode of a new internet audio drama. (If you’re not familiar with the concept of “audio drama, ” think Old Time 1940s Radio. This is a vocal performance only.)

Our noirish “internet radio” drama is a playful take on the 1940s/50s detective genre. (Think Neil Simon’s “The Cheap Detective” or Carl Reiner’s “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid.”) Each episode will be performed “live-to-tape,” with episode run times from 15-20 minutes.

Cast will include three male actors and two females. Ages are not specific, and could easily range from 25-ish to 70-ish.

This new series, intended solely for online distribution, is being produced by a SAG/AFTRA signatory under the terms of the SAG/AFTRA New Media Agreement. $100 per episode minimum. Production of each episode will take no more than one hour.

Please email if interested. We’ll answer any questions, and send you casting info. . .

If you live in the North Hollywood area and are a SAG/AFTRA member. Break a leg on the audition!

Churchill’s Audio Adversary

March 12, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

churchill Winston may be a volleyball to some, a Ghostbuster to others, but to a nation at war he was also the man speaking about the finest hour. I don’t believe he meant the hour of contention. Television is achieving a kind of new Golden Age, and unfortunately that puts us straight in conflict with BBC’s finest radio. “The Father“, a wonderfully popular play by the French dramatist Florian Zeller. According to the article from the Telegraph Did Churchill Steal the Audience from this Brilliant Audio Drama, an embarrassment of riches coincides with a nine o’clock showing of “The Father” from BBC3, The Night Manager from BBC1 and Churchill’s Secret on ITV.

All the more reason to get them all on a subscription podcast!

The Black Knight Rides!

March 11, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

blacknight Medieval radio is a rare and precious gift in the modern audio drama world. There’s Morgan Sorwell’s incredible Table Round series, and now there’s “The Black Knight”. KVMR Community Radio and the historic Nevada Theatre created this original radio drama. The Black Knight will be presented live on-stage in the theater, broadcast over KVMR 89.5 FM and streamed over KVMR.org. Yubanet.com has all the main details about the event on March 16th at 7 PM. Tune in or show up or both!

The Who’s of Ten(Eleven)

March 10, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

tenwho Nostalgia is a strange sensation. It can take form through the decades or just in a few years. As we’re enjoying the new adventures of Doctor Who, Big Finish has a grand announcement sure to add cheer to those who miss David Tennant in the role of the Time Lord. Both Tennant and Catherine Tate are set to reprise their roles of the Doctor and Donna Noble in an upcoming audio series as this Sydney article details. Expect the three stories: “Technophobia”, “Time Reaver” and “Death and the Queen” to be released as The Tenth Doctor Adventures in May!