Our old friends at Quicksilver Radio Theater are at it again! This time with a performance tonight of the eternal Dracula at Episcopal Actors’ Guild. Ticket includes a wine and cheese reception following the show. Proceeds will benefit the charitable programs of EAG, which offers financial support to New York performers “of all faiths, and none.” So go and have some fun!
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Christmas has its Claus. Halloween has its own incredible iconic figures. One of the most important of course is the eternal Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Hamilton-Gibson Productions brings their own Dracula adaptation for the audio drama. Get your tickets while you can and enjoy the frights!
Re-imagined Radio presents The Willamette Radio Workshop’s performance of War of the Worlds at the Kiggins Theater, Thursday, October 30, 2014. (Steven Lane/The Columbian)
Wilamette Radio Workshop and Re-imagined Radio have partnered again to bring back some seasonal holiday favourites from their version of War of the Worlds, to The Fall of the City, and R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) with Washington State University Vancouver.
Scott Hewitt provides the details in his article Bits ‘n’ Pieces: Radio plays scare up some chills at Kiggins for the Columbian.
From the August 27th issue of the Independent:
Johnny Vegas directs and acts in The Toffee Tip, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age comedy. “And they have listening figures that TV at that time of day would kill for,” says Jane Anderson, radio editor at the Radio Times. (The BBC happily confirms this. Drama on Radio 4 attracts almost seven million listeners a week.) “But I think many other people have this view that radio drama is always about the Irish potato famine or middle-class people with dark secrets that come back to haunt them. Once you have that in your mind, it’s hard to listen without thinking, ‘Oh God’, and switching off.”
Listeners who overcome that instinct are rewarded. Anderson cites as one recent triumph Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell, the biographical play in which John Hurt played the titular columnist.
It’s the summertime and that’s a good time to sit back and listen to audio drama. But, for many writers, it’s also the time they can find a quiet place to work on their latest opus. The purpose of your writing may be entirely up to you, but Esta de Fossard decided that writing audio drama for social development was an excellent way to get the message across when you entertain.
Here is her own opus, appropriately titled How to Write a Radio Serial Drama for Social Development. While you’re lazing in your hammock, have a read, and a thought to how you can transform the world today with Audio story!
If you’re a producer, writer, director, or actor of audio drama. It’s not unusual to see how much of your favourite medium takes up much of your time. For those of us who have many hats in the process, you can imagine thinking of new shows, writing, recording, and post-production takes up much of our waking lives.
But the things you love to do, never exhaust you like the drudgery of those tasks that are chores. You may get tired making radio plays, but you’ll be just as energized by the production. In the meantime, take some time this Easter weekend and spend time with your families, appreciate the coming Spring season, and rest because tomorrow there’s always more for you to listen from the world of modern audio theatre.
From all of us at the Sonic Society, to all of you, have a happy and safe holiday!
Bangwave Radio wants you to celebrate World Theatre Day with Radio Drama. And why not? Can you think of a better way than to listening to some great OTR like The Halls of Fantasy or The Haunting Hour? Or of course, you can just tune in to Sonic Echo every Friday night for the rest of Season 10 of the Sonic Society and get you thirst for old time radio quenched there!
While you’re in the midst of your writing frenzy of NADSWRIM this month, take a moment and have a listen to the incredible free content coming from the Internet’s largest provider of audio at Audible.com. Further to Black History month in Canada, Audible is providing four new free audio drama every Wednesday. Sign up and download today!
All around 
the world, we celebrate our very first WORLD AUDIO DRAMA DAY!
Thanks so much to Sibby Wieland, David Jarvis, Sonia James from Sound Stages Radio who came up with the original idea and have worked so hard to get the word out. And special thanks to Pete Lutz from Narada Radio Company and Fiona Thraille from Cooperantem Radio for all their work and interest in promoting this celebration on Facebook and through the rest of social media.
How can you celebrate?
Here’s some things to consider:
1. Share a radio drama with your family tonight. Turn off all the cell phones, other technology and extraneous lights and enjoy a drama.
2. Share an audio play at dinner with a loved one.
3. Find your favourite audio theatre episode and listen while you drive to work.
4. Download some shows you’ve always wanted to listen to, but never had the chance for your workout session today.
5. Send around a link to your friends with the twitter tag #HappyWorldADD of your favourite shows from modern audio theatre
6. Talk to people about your favourite shows.
7. Clean the house or dishes old school with an audio drama playing.
8. Go for a nice long walk timed to an audio pulp production!
9. Bake some holiday food while listening to an audio show.
10. Burn some CD’s of some awesome audio drama and leave it randomly for people to find.
In whatever way you intend to celebrate today, have fun doing it and let us know!
Find the World Audio Drama Facebook Community and Twitter and we’ll see you- out in the world!
Whoever you are, where ever you live, from all of us here at the Society a very happy Canada Day tomorrow! May you have a relaxing and joyful time with friends and family, and hear the siren’s call of audio drama playing late in the evening over the waters.