Category: Live Radio Drama (Page 2 of 3)

Return to Radio (Stage)

April 26, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

on-air-radio.92e5edd4 From St. Catherine University online:

The St. Catherine University Department of Music and Theater, in cooperation with the University of St. Thomas, presents “On Air: A Return to Radio.” This limited engagement runs Wednesday, April 27 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, April 30 at 2 p.m. in the Frey Theater (building #10 on the map).

Step back in time to the 1940’s, the heyday of radio drama. The voices, action, advertisements, and sound effects of classics such as My Friend Irma and Suspense Theater: Sorry Wrong Number come life before your eyes.

General admission tickets are $10; St. Kate’s and ACTC students, faculty and staff are free with valid campus ID. Due to limited seating, any tickets not claimed 30 minutes before performance will be released. Reserve tickets at the O’Shaughnessy box office or purchase online.

Check it out while you can!

Magnetic Kids

April 26, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

adkids Are you in the North Carolina area? Have kids looking to get busy this summer with audio drama?

Check out Magnetic Theatre camp with this post from Mountain Xpress:

Announcement from The Magnetic Theatre:

Has your rising 6th-9th grader ever wanted to:

Explore exotic locales? Soar through deep space? Solve crimes?
Discover buried treasure? Live the lifestyle of the rich and famous soap opera world?

At the Magnetic Theatre’s Radio Drama Camp this summer, kids ages 11 – 14 will write, produce, direct, and star in a radio drama that is performed live on stage and recorded as an mp3 file to be shared with friends and family.

This is your child’s opportunity to:
Create and write a cliffhanger story
Learn the craft of creating sound effects
See how a professional radio station and recording studio works
Weave all of these elements into a fully produced episode of a radio adventure
Perform live on stage for family, friends, and other campers

Oh to be a kid again!

PBS Radio Rocks by Not Rocking

April 22, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

PBSwebsize Elijah Hawkins has some pretty cool things to say about radio drama down under:

In a time when most commercial radio stations play (in this writer’s opinion) either mass-produced crap or ‘80s pop, and when even triple j is waning, community radio plays an incredibly important role in the scene.
PBS 106.7FM is one of these stations flying the flag for community radio, and from May 16-29 they’re calling on listeners to ‘Take the Plunge’ and sign up. As a station that remains independent and non-profit, the supporters and volunteers are what keeps PBS on the air.

Fuelled by people with a passion for music and propelled by the record collections of the volunteer broadcasters, the station offers programs focusing on everything, including country, blues and roots, garage, rock, punk, and even electronica, soul, hip-hop, and free jazz.

Folks who sign up or renew their membership will go into the running for a heap of prizes, including a Maton 70th anniversary series semi-acoustic guitar, a restored Thorens turnable, a classic red Vespa PX 150 scooter and plenty more.

So get out there and support PBS 106.7 FM and let the stories rock out!

Dietrick Theater Performers

April 20, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

web1_ABJ-Radio Headed to Pennsylvania and aching to watch some live radio drama?

Catch Owen Frazier and Rich Ryczak from Dietrich Radio Players performing at the Open Mic this Friday (April 22nd) this evening. Find out all the details from this article at Abington Journal:

Two members of the Dietrich Radio Players, Owen Frazier and Rich Ryczak, will be the featured performers for Open Mic at 7 p.m. Friday, April 22 at the theater. They will bring some comic examples of old time radio to the open mic stage.

Open to audiences and performers of all ages, musicians, comedians and performers of all types are invited to share their talents before Frazier and Ryczak take the stage. The doors open for sign-ups and seating at 6:30 p.m.

With years of experience performing in the Dietrich Radio Players group, Frazier and Ryczak chose scenes from the Jack Benny Show, Charlie McCarthy segments, W.C. Fields comedies and the “Who’s on First,” routine made famous by Abbott and Costello.

For more information about this free event, call the Dietrich at 570-996-1500.

Information provided by the Dietrich Theater.

Racontour Radio, the folks who brought mesmerizing re-creations of Dr. Who and War of the Worlds, are at it again with A Fond Farewell to Downton Abbey! “Downton Abbey: A Staged Radio Play Parody”. Friday the 15th. Check out the details from the Morristown Green:

The theatrical troupe returns to the Morristown & Township Library on Friday, April 15, 2016, at 7 pm, for what may be the final gathering of the library’s Downton Abbey Support Group.

‘Downton Abbey’ fans Lorraine Rosenberg (portraying Lady Edith), Kathleen Mandaglio (Lady Mary) and Beverly DeFabiis (Anna, wife of Bates) at Downton Abbey Support Group meeting, at the Morristown & Township Library. Photo by Kevin Coughlin

Although we suspect the need for this group therapy is growing more acute.

Last month marked the end of the popular PBS series, which spent six seasons chronicling the Crawley family’s fictional struggles to preserve its aristocratic lifestyle in post-World War I Britain.

Friday’s parody is free. Period costumes are encouraged. Refreshments will be served –let’s hope the library staff bakes scones, a specialty of the house — and rumors are flying around about some musical surprises.

The library is at One Miller Road in Morristown. Here is the library’s show description:

A Fond Farewell to Downton Abbey! “Downton Abbey: A Staged Radio Play Parody”

Friday April 15, 2016

7 PM

The Library’s long-standing band of Crawley family enthusiasts, the Downton Abbey Support Group (to support the show’s fans during the long breaks between new episodes), is lamenting the fact that come March 2016, the show will have completed its sixth and final season.

The real Downton Abbey–Highclere Castle. The Morristown & Township Library will bring you up to speed on the PBS series, on Dec. 6 at 7 pm.

But to send the show off with the grandeur it deserves, the library will become Highclere Castle as the Downton Abbey Support Group hosts Raconteur Radio’s performance of Downton Abbey: A Staged Radio Play Parody.

Raconteur Radio performs scenes of the show as a radio play but with period costumes, theatrical lighting, golden age radio equipment and extensive sound effects!

Raconteur Radio stages theatrical presentations of vintage radio plays, classic works of literature, and pop-culture parodies for live audiences throughout the Tri-State area.

Vintage Hitchcock Radio

April 11, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

2-s47dtu_preview_featured The Oskaloosa Herald shares an exciting live radio theatre performance:

With “Vintage Hitchcock,” performed by William Penn University’s theatre department, you will visit neither London nor the 1920s, but you will become the audience of a radio show from several eras. “I really would like the audience to come in and take time to close [their] eyes and just listen to what it sounds like. This is designed to be a radio play, and we really tried to tackle it from that point of view,” said director Andy McGuire.

Three of Alfred Hitchcock’s early films have been adapted into radio plays by playwright Joe Landry. “The Lodger” will be first, followed by “Sabotage.” After a brief intermission, “The 39 Steps” will finish out the evening. “They’re all made with great reverence and love for Hitchcock,” said McGuire. The filmmaker is known for being a master of nail-biting suspense and the thriller genre. “A lot of times people think of theatre as this farce and this comedy. These plays are fun, they have their fun moments, but they’re not really comedies.”

Find out everything about Friday and Saturday’s performances that are offered free from this article College Students to Perform Vintage Hitchcock.

Iowa Weekend!

April 8, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

Are you in southeast Iowa for the weekend? Check out The Ottumwa Courier‘s suggestions for 5 Things to Do This Weekend.

I’m assuming its in reverse order of importance because their #5 is Live Radio Drama!

From the article:

5. Laugh the night away with the Davis County Players this Friday and Saturday evening as they present a night of old-time radio with a Bloomfield twist in the tradition of “A Prairie Home Companion.” The audience gets to watch a radio show unfold right before its very eyes, complete with plays, sketches, ad parodies and fantastic music. It’s two evenings of live radio at the Iowa Theatre in Bloomfield, with the “State Line Old Time Radio Revue,” featuring five short radio plays by Broadway playwright Eric Coble as well as several additional comedy sketches, live music and much more — all under the guise of a fictional live radio broadcast on the fictional radio station, JMMG, 92.4. Showtime is 7 p.m. April 1-2. Tickets are available at Perfect Touch Wellness Center in Bloomfield or at the door before showtime.

Vintage Live

March 31, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

V033016-805_t180 Live from the Vienna Community Centre some classic old time radio will be provided Friday, April 1st and Saturday, April 2nd. Be prepared for the “Adventures of the Thin Man: The Case of the Goofy Groom,” and “The Big Story: Manhunt in Manhattan.”

Read all the details in the article Vintage Radio Plays Come to Life in Vienna and grab your tickets if you can!

From Radio Play to Stage Play

March 21, 2016 / Jack / 0 Comments

oculuscropped2-20160314123936109 More great Radio Drama that was translated and adapted for the stage as The Edmonton Journal Reviews Under Milk Wood.

From the article:

Originally released in 1954 as a radio drama and later adapted for the stage, this “play for voices” was written in the aftermath of the Second World War to portray a sense of innocence and humanity driven by human goodness.

Under Milk Wood depicts the thoughts and desires of the inhabitants of Llareggub, a fictional fishing village in writer Dylan Thomas’s home country of Wales. The production opens on an invitation from the narrator to “hear the dreams” of the sleeping villagers. Llareggub’s townspeople are a diverse group of characters, including Captain Cat, the blind, retired sea captain haunted by visions of his past, and the lovesick Mog Edwards and Myfanwy Price, with dreams only of each other. The figurative language is captivating, littered with humour and imagery, depicting not only the simple provincial life of Llareggub’s inhabitants but also their deepest desires.

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!