Tag: The Hobbit

Wolvie Goes Audio!

February 6, 2018 / / 0 Comments

You know it had to happen! The Nerdist presents the latest in an audio drama adventure series with Wolverine.

Marvel and Stitcher announced in late 2017 that they’d teamed up for a new audio drama podcast, Marvel’s first scripted podcast endeavor, featuring Wolverine. Ahead of March’s debut episode of Wolverine: The Long Night, Marvel has released the first audio trailer for the ten-episode series, which finds Wolverine far removed from the world of the X-Men. The Hobbit star Richard Armitage is providing Wolverine’s voice for this story, and the trailer indicates that even Logan isn’t sure about what kind of man he really is.

Wolverine/Logan will be the star of his own story, but he will also share the spotlight with FBI agents Sally Pierce and Tad Marshall. The Long Night is set in Burns, Alaska, where a savage serial killer has left of a trail of terror in their wake. An amnesiac Logan is the town’s prime suspect, and the trailer indicates that his claws and his kinship with wolves have created a local mythology about his powers. Pierce and Marshall lead the hunt for Logan, but they may find that they have common ground with him when the town’s dark secrets come to the surface.

Green Arrow writer Ben Percy scripted Wolverine: The Long Night for director Brendan Baker. In addition to Armitage, the cast is headlined by Celia Keenan-Bolger as Agent Pierce and Ato Essandoh as Agent Marshall, with Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Scott Adsit, Bob Balaban, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and more in supporting roles.

Wolverine: The Long Night will premiere on Stitcher Premium on March 12 before getting a wider release on all podcast platforms this fall.

The Pictures are Better

March 17, 2016 / / 0 Comments
The Kiggins Theatre has become a regular destination for Willamette Radio Workshop. The Love Street Playhouse production of "It's a Wonderful Life" stars Kevin Taylor as George Bailey and Bethany Pithan as Mary. Both actors are from Longview. (Darcie Elliott Photography) The Love Street Playhouse production of "It's a Wonderful Life" features (from left) Kevin Taylor of Longview, Kim Dewey of Vancouver, Lou Pallotta of Ridgefield, Bethany Pithan of Longview and Steve Taylor of Battle Ground. (Darcie Elliott Photography) The North End Players Theater Company. The Kiggins Theatre has become a regular destination for Willamette Radio Workshop. Sam Mowry is director of the Willamette Radio Workshop. The Kiggins was packed on Halloween for the Willamette Radio Workshop's run of scary sci-fi plays.

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!

 

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