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Solid as a Rock

635932368595261959-Pamela-McNeill-Black-and-Silver-3Singer 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.

Churchill’s Audio Adversary

churchillWinston 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!

blacknightMedieval 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)

tenwhoNostalgia 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!

 

Tiger Bones

tigersbonesOften we see plays transformed into radio drama, but it’s rare to see original radio drama turned into stage plays. But that’s the case with Ted Hughes‘ work “Tiger Bones and Other Stores”. The Guardian has an article that explains how Hughes original morality tales were broadcast live into schools in the sixties, and have now been given new life thanks to the staging of Jack McNamara and a cast of four. Read the original article and marvel as to the many ways audio plays keep coming back to us, generation after generation!

Alice May Be Unwell

aliceisntdeadThe folks who brought you Welcome to Nightvale are at it again with Alice Isn’t Dead, available for downloads tomorrow. Podficts or “podcast fiction” seems to be the latest rage with so many previous shows becoming wildly popular. Similar to mockumentaries, these serialized stories are meant to appear to be factual events but are told in a fictionalized scripted form. I’ve seen many audio dramaphiles frustrated with this latest turn of the podcast screw, but we at the Sonic Society think it can only bode well for audio drama’s rise.

The more people listen to audio fiction, it’s only a matter of time before their ears turn towards audio dramatic entertainment.

In the meantime, enjoy the ride and tune in! After all, ink in the New York Times isn’t going to hurt their exposure.

Sound Preservations

preserveThere have always been warning cries of the loss of old footage from the days of early film. Here is one of the first comprehensive “calls to action” to protect old time radio. Interviews, news, music and of course radio drama!

This Task Force includes librarians, academics, and radio enthusiasts and they are calling for people who have recorded tapes of these time periods.  Read more of Amy Scott’s article in Marketplace.

If you have anything in your basement, join in the fight to save the past for the future!

The Sound of Bugles

AlStevensStudents and co-workers from Lewis and Clark Community College remember their teacher, colleague and friend, Al Stevens. Al taught radio drama and radio news at LCCC since 1998. He retired in 2015 to spend time with his family and take care of his illness. After a lengthy battle with cancer, Al Stevens passed on February 19th. As a radio veteran students thought of his radio drama class as “fun” and an opportunity to try different voices and improvisational comedy. His skills in visually picking out the edit spots without even listening to the recordings stunned his students. His eulogy was uplifting and a time to share stories and pizza. Zac Coffman, a former student said:

“He loved life and enjoyed every minute,” Coffman said on social media. “When I found out he had passed, I spent some time talking about him with friends from WLCA, and I could not remember a time when there wasn’t a smile on his face. He was a great man, and the world is that much dimmer without his light in it.”

More details of Al’s story can be found in this article of The Telegraph. Radio Drama brings all of us together. Our heartfelt apologies to the family.

Brandon Seeks Audio Actors

supermanSuperman may soon be flying again and Dick Tracy will be speaking into his two-way radio as Kathy Mathis, director at the Brandon Town Players, looks to find actors to fill the roles of the classic OTR radio plays. Mathis plans to have the actors dressed in period garb and perform the plays on stage as written on the page.

If you’re in Brandon get the details about the new initiative in Vermont from this Times Argus article.

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