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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Biff and his new friends from Nova Command are captured by the Rahoad and find themselves facing “THE POOL OF DEATH”
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!
Sibby Wieland, from Sound Stages Radio has been a long time advocate and champion of the amazing medium we all know and love- audio drama. Her seminal works along with those of Pete Lutz from Pulp-Pourri Theatre, Richard “Captain Radio” Summers, and our own efforts here at the Sonic Society have pressed to provide World Audio Drama Day on the 30th of October in fond remembrance of an age of panic during the initial broadcast of Orson Welles’ adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds.
In this article with Radio World the focus seems to be audio drama trying to reinvent itself. Is that really the case? Or hasn’t that happened over a decade ago now?
The phenomenal 40th anniversary love letter to War of the Worlds is written and produced by the brilliantly inventive Steve Bellinger and our feature tonight after its 1978 premiere on American Public Radio. With thanks to Captain Radio, Jack and David present this classic on the week of World Audio Drama Day. May we all live love and listen faithfully
Debuting on October 29th, just in time for Halloween, Petaluma Radio Players resurrect the iconic Shadow in a live performance of the old time radio series in a Petaluma barn. Go grab your tickets for the back to back performances of “Flames of Death” and “Death in the Tomb” by going to the Petaluma 360.
Little John (Peter Greenall) tells the backstory of Robin Hood and his merry men in this fantastic BBC Radio drama. As the Daily Post says:
Peter, inspired to become an actor thanks to his mother, Mary, who taught English and ran the drama group at Prestatyn High School, said: “For me, Little John was largely a victim of circumstance. A man who was an outlaw because he was honourable, yet living in a time and way of life where the law forced people to prop up an immoral establishment through crippling taxes, often to the detriment of their families.
So, listen to the original score by Samuel Pegg, strap on your best longbow, don your forest green and your merry laugh and join Mr. Greenall in the adventure!
Jack and David showcases an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s 2BR02B from Pulp-Pourri Theatre and The Adventures of Jack Nimble from Matt Leong!
The Macaulay Library at Cornell University, home of the world’s largest and oldest collection of nature recordings, just uploaded the whole, totally searchable, archive online for free. 9,000 species from across the world are documented in 150,000 audio recordings, totaling 10 terabytes and a run time of 7,513 hours.
The library has been building its holdings since 1929, amassing recordings from 75% of the world’s bird species (it operates within the Cornell Lab of Ornithology after all) and a growing collection of insect, fish, frog, and mammal recordings as well. It took the archivists a dozen years to digitize the whole kit and caboodle.
This represents just a small fraction of the estimated 8.7 million species living on earth, and still, it’s far and away the best catalogue detailing what life on earth sounds like.
So get downloading some of the best sounds for your next great African adventure in audio drama!
BBC4 is providing some unique opportunities to listen to plays this month. Check out the article at newsonnews:
BBC Radio 4 has announced that one of the plays would be the broadcast premiere of Arthur Miller’s unproduced screenplay The Hook. It has also announced that the series will also feature world premieres of Heart Of Darkness by Orson Welles, and The Blind Man by Alfred Hitchcock and Ernest Lehman – all sitting in the station’s drama slot on Saturday afternoon at 2.30pm across three weekends in October.
Jeremy Howe, Drama Commissioner for BBC Radio 4, says: “To discover an unmade screenplay of the calibre of any of these is a find in itself, but to unearth three is little short of a miracle. I hope our audience will agree that being offered these three masterpieces on consecutive Saturdays is a massive treat. Get yourself a long drink, a bucket of popcorn, and sit back and enjoy the cream of Hollywood in its heyday – three brand spanking new stories from Arthur Miller, Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles.”