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Sonic Summerstock Playhouse 17.3- Rocket Skin

July 19, 2026 / / 0 Comments

We’re happy to welcome back to Sonic Summerstock our good friend Pete Lutz, who, with the Narada Radio Company, brings us what Pete claims is a lost episode of the classic radio series “Escape”! Naturally we’ll take his word for it — the story centers around a handful of intergalactic hitchhikers, who are magnetically fastened to the outside of a fast-moving rocket ship, headed for Earth. One of the men is an agent of the Interplanetary Police, trying to determine which of the others is inadvertently carrying secret information planted in his brain by agents of the Venusian army, which is at war with Mars. The story, by Ray Bradbury, has all the elements of an episode of Escape: adventure, intrigue, and a twist ending. We’re certain you’ll enjoy this entry from Pete and his Narada players!

Sonic Summerstock Playhouse 17.2- The Man From Lot Two and Temple of Vampires #3

July 12, 2026 / / 0 Comments

This week at the Playhouse we have a double feature of sorts. We begin with the latest performance by Chicago’s Northside/Southside Radio Players. “The Man From Lot Two”: a zany musical comedy adapted for audio theater from a 1966 script originally penned by authors Bob Connelly and Raymon Bruce, who worked in Hollywood on the crews of hit TV shows and after that, The Amigos Collective brings their third adventure recreation of Carlton E. Morse’s classic “I Love a Mystery” and specifically that favourite of Bill Hollweg- “Temple of Vampires”. Since they featured episodes one and two last month on Sunday Showcase, the team are recreating episode three early here on the Sonic Summerstock stage before beginning the full run on Thursday Thrillers!

Sonic Summerstock Playhouse 17.1- X-Minus One: A Wind is Rising

July 5, 2026 / / 0 Comments

This week we begin our seventeenth season of Sonic Summerstock with another incredible tale from Jeffrey Billard. But let us let, Jeff tell the tale: 127 miles an hour. And rising. On a distant world, an advance expedition finds itself trapped as a monstrous storm bears down on their position and they must venture out to make a repair.  Escape grows uncertain. And the wind keeps climbing. From Audio Groove Cats comes a thrilling re-imagining of the classic X-Minus One tale, ‘A Wind Is Rising”—a story of isolation and the terrifying power of a planet that doesn’t care whether you survive. The forecast is simple: The wind is rising.

Sonic Summerstock Playhouse 16.9- Retro Rockets Redux: Sleeper

August 31, 2025 / / 0 Comments

In our grand finale for the sixteenth season of Sonic Summerstock, Jack Ward takes a relook at a classic episode of “I was a Communist for the F.B.I. and remakes it for the future and Retro Rockets with “I Was a Martian for the E.B.I.” and the thrilling Sci-Fi Electric Curtain thriller. Sonic Cinema Productions and the Amigos Collective bring us “The Sleeper!”

Sonic Summerstock Playhouse 16.8- This is Hollywood: THE STRANGER

August 24, 2025 / / 0 Comments

The Narada Radio Company, a significant contributor to Sonic Summerstock Playhouse over the past decade, is back again this year with a major effort. Producer Pete Lutz is proud to bring you his adaptation of the Orson Welles film, THE STRANGER! Loosely attributed to the lost Old-Time Radio series, “This is Hollywood”, from the late 1940s, Narada presents a re-imagining of what their radio adaptation of the tense, thrilling film, about a Nazi hunter and his prey, might have been like. With a huge cast of Narada favorites!

Sonic Summerstock Playhouse 16.7- Sam Spade Parody: Stan Slade Detective: The Burmese Penguin Caper

August 17, 2025 / / 0 Comments

In our encore performance from Project Audion this season, Larry Groebe returns again to ask what do you do if you grew up listening the classic dramatic series on the radio, then found a career writing TV comedy for Bob Hope, and now, decades later, you still harbor fond feelings about those radio shows of your youth? Well, if you’re Robert L. Mills, you write shows like the one you’re about to hear.  It’s a takeoff of a certain famous detective whose name sounds awfully similar to OUR show’s hero, named Stan Slade. The original “Adventures of Sam Spade” was broadcast in the late 1940s and early ’50s. It starred Howard Duff as the detective created by Dashiell Hammett. It was a fun show that never took itself entirely seriously. Mr Mills has nudged his tribute a little further into the tongue-in-cheek — or should I say tongue in beak? -territory, reuniting the detective with his old adversaries from the Maltese Falcon movie, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Everyone in our cast gets to have some fun with this adventure of Stan Slade, Detective, entitled “The Burmese Penguin Caper”. 

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