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Drama by Moonlight

December 7, 2010 / Jack / 0 Comments

Some fantastic news from David Farquhar, Executive Producer of Voices In The Wind Audio Theatre. Audio Drama is going to have yet another fantastic stream to reach out people like it’s never done before:

On Tuesday December 7th 2010 a new and innovative way of delivering audio dramas to a mobile audience was launched on the Blackberry Smart Phone. The Moonlight Audio Theatre Podcast APP on the Blackberry features the best in modern audio drama programming covering all genres. With some 40 million Blackberry users across North America there is potentially a huge audience to tap into. Audio dramas can now be easily listened to while riding on the bus, waiting for your next flight at the airport, on long drives, while waiting at the Doctor’s office or at work. The Blackberry MOONLIGHT AUDIO THEATRE PODCAST is available instantly, anywhere, anyplace at anytime, no PC required.

What that means of course is that those folks who are good with their blackberries but lousy with subscriptions to podcasts and the like can listen any time, anywhere, on demand to audio drama.

How is this not good FANTASTIC news!?

Kids having Fits

November 18, 2010 / Jack / 0 Comments

Kevin Sorbo, John Billingsley and Bonita Friedericy Star in New Audio Drama to Benefit “A World Fit For Kids”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

BURBANK, CA Nov. 17, 2010 – Macabre Mansion® Presents “The Fall Of The House Of Usher” – an original Audio Drama adaptation of the short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Starring Kevin Sorbo (“Hercules, the Legendary Journeys”, “Gene Roddenberry’s, Andromeda”), John Billingsley (Star Trek: Enterprise, “The Others”, “True Blood” “2012”), Bonita Friedericy (NBC’s Chuck), and Jim O’Rear (The Dead Matter, Day Of The Dead, Star Trek 4, Lethal Weapon 3, Cop & 1/2).

SYNOPSIS:
“Driven to the edge of insanity, Roderick Usher believes unknown forces torture his every moment. In a final attempt at finding a moments peace, he begs his childhood friend to come to his aid. Upon arriving, Roderick’s friend soon discovers all is not what it seems in the macabre HOUSE OF USHER.”

This audio adaptation stays true to Poe’s original vision with only minor changes in dialogue. The script consists of four speaking roles; Roderick Usher (O’Rear), Madeline Usher (Friedericy), the family Doctor (Billingsley) and the Narrator (Sorbo) who is an un-named childhood friend of Roderick. The Audio Drama has the same feel and style of the classic Old Time Radio shows.

A portion of the proceeds from “The Fall Of The House Of Usher” are being donated to “A WORLD FIT FOR KIDS” the leading nonprofit provider of after school physical activity and youth development programs for children and teens – http://www.worldfitforkids.org/

Macabre Mansion® Presents “The Fall Of The House Of Usher” is AVAILABLE NOW on audio compact disc for a retail price of $ 14.95 and includes two bonus commentary tracks featuring Kevin Sorbo and Jim O’Rear. https://www.createspace.com/1853775

For more information on Macabre Mansion® Presents “The Fall Of The House Of Usher” visit http://www.macabremansion.com/index.php?room=usher

Behind the scenes photos from the Burbank California recording session: http://www.macabremansion.com/news/?q=node/302

Promotional Videos:
http://www.macabremansion.com/news/?q=node/322

Buck Public!

November 15, 2010 / Jack / 0 Comments

Perfect timing for the holidays! Pick up a couple of copies of Colonial Radio Theatre‘s “Buck Alice and the Actor-Robot” by the always clever and wry pen of Walter Koenig. Working together on this project Mr. Koenig and Jerry Robbins have put together a triumph of a science fiction audio drama!

Listen to this fun and engaging tale and get an extra for gifts! Or just point family to the site and say, “Here! This is what I want for Christmas”. Shopping made easy, the audio drama way 🙂

Synopsis: From the mind of Walter Koenig (Star Trek: The Original Series, Babylon 5) comes Buck Alice and the Actor-Robot – a science-fiction comedy unlike anything you’ve ever heard before! When an alien invasion annihilates most of humanity, it’s up to a small pocket of survivors to restart civilization. There’s just one problem: they’re all losers.

From an Irish pub to the Florida Everglades, from the outermost reaches of space to the innermost regions of the mind, join a rag-tag group of humans and aliens as they face the end of one way of life and the beginning of another.
Packed with absurdity, pathos, wry observations about human nature, and a story that will keep you on your toes until the final word, Buck Alice is an emotional journey you’ll want to take again and again.

With a full-cast, a sweeping original music score, and thousands of sound effects, the award winning Colonial Radio Theatre On The Air proudly presents a black comedy with a heart that pumps slightly acidic blood. Grab a manhole cover and prepare yourself for a story that begins when all others end – Buck Alice and the Actor-Robot!

Zombie Stew- How to make awesome undead!

November 2, 2010 / Jack / 0 Comments

We’re (Coming) Alive on Techland

November 1, 2010 / Jack / 0 Comments

Forget The Walking Dead. Let’s face it, nothing scares like audio drama, and if you’re here, it’s because you realize We’re Alive is your own particular shade of zombie poison.

The good folks at the zombie podcast got some great undead love from Mike Williams at Techland.

Halloween is never over while these masters of the macabre are still weaving their tales. Long live the Zombies!

The Audio Football

October 30, 2010 / Jack / 0 Comments

More great Halloween audio drama going across the airwaves.

From the VCStar:

“NFL star and former San Diego Charger running back Chuck Muncie is Celebrity Host for Every Now and Then Theatre’s Halloween radio mystery, “Shorty Cut Across.” The drama will air commercial free on NewsTalk 1520 KVTA and 1400 KKZZ, on Saturday and Sunday, October 30 and 31 at 8pm…”

All Aboard!

October 29, 2010 / Jack / 0 Comments

The Transcontinental Terror is boarding on Halloween Night.

Don’t delay and get on the train while you still can!

Sound Stages Internet Radio as well as affiliate stations all across North America will present hours and hours of spine tingling terror!

With a Cavalcade of Horror from SIX Times Zones. Six hours of premiering audio horror from the masters of the audio macrabre.

The Wireless Theatre Company (London, England)
Electric Vicuna Productions (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
FinalRune Productions (Portland, Maine)
Chatterbox Audio Theater (Memphis, Tennessee)
Icebox Radio Theater (International Falls, Minnesota)
The Willamette Radio Workshop (Portland, Oregon)

Beginning at Six PM Atlantic Time.

Scream you then!

Audio Me, Ray Bradbury

October 24, 2010 / Jack / 0 Comments

Looking for an extra squeal of delight this horror season?

May we recommend the amazing Halloween Tree from Colonial Radio Theatre. Not only is it Bradbury approved, it’s the best adaptation of this classic tale.

The dramatization is also a winner in the stores showing up as the number one drama sold of Bradbury’s work in Amazon. Well done CRT!

And hey, while you’re there, pick up a couple more of their adaptations too. Halloween is just around the corner!

Jack on Audio Drama

October 18, 2010 / Jack / 0 Comments

Come and join Jack on Wednesday night, at the Halifax’s Living Room at 2353 Agricola St for a fun and entertaining exchange on the Theatre of the Mind: The Audio Drama Revivalist Movement!

Wednesday night, October 20th- 7:30-9:30 at the Living Room on Agricola Street Radio Drama is alive in Halifax!
With the implementation of cheap alternatives, digital sound editing has trumpeted a return of the audio arts- not least of which “Radio Plays”! Podcasts and streaming, radio and CD’s are just some of the distribution methods that a number of individuals and groups have used to express extremely rich and diverse audio theatre. In this workshop, Jack will present the history of this new Golden Age, the basics of Audio Drama creation, and share some of the keys of vocal acting, writing, and directing. Everything a dramatist needs to know to be involved in this growing movement! From reading scripts, to sound effects, podcast suggestions to the vast possibilities of writing original or adapted works, come share the old days of pure theatre of the mind, now brand new!

Come one and come all!

What a Sight!

September 30, 2010 / Jack / 0 Comments

We can’t help ourselves. We love Movies for the Blind.

These good folks take all kinds of great and schlocky movies from the past and make ’em so you can do all the work in your brain.

We’ve mentioned this before, but visuals as much as we like them, are really not very good for exercising the imagination- certainly reading is better- but Audio Drama is just the best. After all, how much better is it to recreate a scene with a little dialogue, a little narration, or a few well-placed sound effects?

Go check out MftB today! May we recommend as a beginning The Last Man on Earth?

Or better yet.. go subscribe so you don’t miss a thing!