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News From Local Theaters. Discussion forum for Modern Audio Drama (MAD) |
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| Launched in February 2010, Chris Moody offers Audio Cinema Review a podcast series to review audio drama/theater/cinema programs. Chris is the force behind PodioMedia Chat and Steampod. |
| Jack Ward of The Sonic Society explains the rational for establishing a voluntary rating system for audio: Audio Drama on the Internet has become a renewed golden age of entertainment. So many new companies and individuals have created plays and stories and are distributing them through Internet Radio, Direct Downloads, Streaming and of course Podcasts. But as we become a larger and more robust community, it becomes more and more difficult to sort out which show is most appropriate for which audience. As an educator and a father, I know I would love to be able to point more families, teachers and students to a number of different audio play productions. You can find more information and the rating guides at The Audio Drama Directory. |
| Audio Theater in/on the Newspaper New radio drama is being premiered on a UK newspaper website as part of a pioneering experiment between The Independent and award-winning British production company Made in Manchester (MIM). Tony Award nominated History Boys' star Samuel Barnett plays Second World War Enigma code breaker Alan Turing in Turing’s Test, a fictional take on what might have been going through Turing’s mind in his dying moments after he’d eaten the apple laced with cyanide in 1954. Ashley Byrne, Creative Director of Made in Manchester which produced the drama says: “We’re delighted that The Independent has chosen to premiere this drama on their website. “Writers, actors and directors are frustrated by the conventional commissioning processes in TV and radio here in the UK and want the chance to take risks on new work. He added: “We hope Turing’s Test will be just the start as we find fresh ways of introducing short form radio drama and comedy to new audiences. Watch this space!” THE INDEPENDENT - "Turing's Test" |
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Echo Fiction LLC is a web-based audio theatre content publisher, founded in July 2008 by Xander Davis as a subsidiary to Dreamseed LLC, his independent entertainment production company. Xander Davis serves Echo Fiction as Chief Executive Officer. |
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Jack's Last Call: Say Goodbye to Kerouac, an original audio drama produced about the writer and his life, has won an 'Audio Drama of the Year' Audie nomination for SueMedia Productions.
The Audies®, sponsored by the Audio Publishers Association (APA), is considered the premier awards program in the US recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment. Through the Audies award competition, finalists are selected in each of the various categories. From that group of finalists, one winner is awarded. Winners will be recognized at the Audies gala in New York City on May 29, 2009. |
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Jack's Last Call: Say Goodbye to Kerouac - Synopsis The drinking, the fame that grew after On The Road was published, the battles with his family - these parts of Jack Kerouac's life, which made him a cultural icon of the American 50's, are well known to many. But there is another part of Kerouac that only a few villagers from the quiet hamlet of Northport on Long Island had the chance to see up close. This is the Kerouac presented in Patrick Fenton's original audio play Jack's Last Call: Say Goodbye to Kerouac. On this last Long Island night, Jack thinks back to the America he saw riding alongside Neal Cassady as they drove back and forth across the country. As the memories play through his mind, Jack receives a series of soul-searching phone calls from his daughter, Jan, who is desperate to connect with the man she believes to be her father. It's an honest portrayal of, and an elegy to, a man whose writings helped shape a generation and a nation. Jack's Last Call: Say Goodbye to Kerouac is available as a one-hour special program for public radio stations. Broadway star Len Cariou plays a featured role in the audio play directed and produced by award winning audio dramatist Sue Zizza and is distributed by the ZBS Foundation. The 59-minute production is currently available free to stations either from The Public Radio Exchange (PRX) or at www.jackslastcall.com and will also be available as of March 15, 2009 at Content Depot (PRSS). The audio play - recorded in part at Gunther's Tap Room, one of the celebrated author's favorite Long Island drinking spots- was created in conjunction with the many celebrations around the 50th anniversary of the publishing of On The Road and was adapted by Zizza and playwright Patrick Fenton from an earlier Fenton-penned stage production, Kerouac's Last Call. Fenton's stories and articles have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, New York Newsday, and the Daily News. It wasn't until Fenton's newspaper articles, and his aforementioned play, that fans and scholars learned about this important turning point in Kerouac's life. Based on more than 12 years of research about Kerouac's Queens and Long Island lives, Jack's Last Call opens in 1964, at the moment when his life was moving toward its end and he prepares to leave his Northport home to live in Florida with his mother. Blending both the facts of that last night from tape recordings made by a friend of Kerouac's with other occurrences throughout Kerouac's life, listeners meet the shy, sensitive, complicated Kerouac who fled his own fame in 1957 after On The Road was published. Jack's Last Call also introduces the listener to the many important people who shaped his work including his mother Memere, father Leo, daughter Jan, brother Gerard, friend Neal Cassady and many others. Tony Award winning actor Len Cariou plays the journalist who is writing his story. Jack's Last Call: Say Goodbye to Kerouac was made possible by Midsummer Sound Company, LLC and The Beckerman Archives. Additonal information at iNSOMNICATHON | Wikipedia article | Kerouac's On the Road NPR | Google Time Line |
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. - August 18, 2008 - Dreamseed LLC will launch the largest web-based audio theatre publication source ever assembled with new and original audio theatre productions, it was announced today by Xander Davis, Chief Executive Officer, Dreamseed LLC and its new subsidiary Echo Fiction LLC. Read More... |
| The L.A. Theatre Works traveling version of War of the Worlds and The Lost World concluded their first run in October. The twin shows are
directed by John de Lancie and under the leadership of Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg. The original 1994 L.A. Theatre Works audio release of War of the Worlds starred Leonard Nimoy, Wil Wheaton, Armin Shimerman, Gates McFaddan, Brent Spiner, and others. This production was the seed that launched Alien Voices in 1996 to create multi-media works of science fiction. |
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  The combined efforts of John de Lancie, Nimoy and writer/producer Nat Segaloff published a series of audio titles starting with the Simon and Schuster releases of H.G. Wells's The Time Machine and Jules Verne's Journey To the Center of the Earth. These were followed by The Lost World, The First Men In The Moon and two Star Trek® titles, SPOCK VS. Q and SPOCK VS. Q: The Sequel. |
 Several television versions of the audio drama presentations were produced. In 1997 the First Men In The Moon and in 1998 The Lost World and A Halloween Trilogy. |
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The traveling versions of the two shows presented the challenge of how to perform all of the sound effects, yet keep the cast small and
the gear lite. Diane Adair, the show's tour manager and a fine actress, performed most of the sounds.
Other actors filled in the rest. Tony Palermo was the sound effects consultant and did a marvelous job of preparing the actors to support the show. He also managed to find techniques to produce what was needed with the least amount of props to be shipped from show to show. In today's heightened security world, sound effect props can be come very problematic to fly with. One of my favorites was the teletype produced using the handle of scissors and a small stick ala coffee stirrer or chop sticks. So simple yet so effective. |
 Jen Dede holds the thunder drum ready while Peter McDonald delivers lines about the shots being fired. |
 Peter McDonald describes the airplane while Diane Adair creates the sound with box and vibrator. |
Peter McDonald, Josh Clark, Kyle Colerider-Krugh, Jen Dede, Kenneth Alan Williams Hiding under the grass skirt is Diane Adair along with a pile of other props being used in scene. |
The company will resume their travels February 27, 2009 in Modesto, CA and continue though April 4. ( Schedule )
All performance pictures by Patrick Ryan and Tadashi Omura and courtesy of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and The L.A. Theatre Works.  Early rehearsal. (Photo by Tony Palermo) Story by Henry Howard who enjoyed the performance in Atlanta on Halloween. |
| Andy Serkis, who played Gollum in Lord of the Rings, and David Warner are to star in an audio comedy drama being made by independent producer Ladbroke Radio for BBC Worldwide. Read the story. |
| "God of the Razor" by Joe Lansdale, adapted by Jerry Stearns, music by Mike Wheaton, and directed by Brian Price for Scott Hickey's Grist Mill Productions was premiered at the World Horror Con 2006 in San Francisco on May 13th. Got a lot of good comments and we spent the evening attending publisher's parties and accepting free drinks under a full moon |
| Tony Palermo toured - Neil Simon's "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" - 23 PERFORMANCES |  |
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Tony Palermo toured nationwide with L.A. Theatre Works' traveling
production of Neil Simon's "The Prisoner of Second Avenue." This is a hybrid
form of radio-on-stage where Tony--from a riser on-stage--provides live
sound effects as actors move about a minimal set of furniture while miming
actions (opening doors, throwing things, making lunch, dialing phones, etc.)
There are mics positioned strategically across the stage and the actors
cross to the couch, terrace, kitchen, etc. as the drama requires, pausing to
deliver their lines at the mics. The format resembles the earliest days of
television. We're playing 1000-2000 seat theaters up and down both coasts
with a few dates in the Midwest.
The cast includes Hector Elizondo, Elizabeth Ward Land, David Manis, Sharon Madden, Lynn Marda and Diane Adair. Rob Blasko is the stage manager. If the tour comes to your town, stop by the stage after the show to say hello to Tony as he wraps up. Even if you've done a million radio dramas you've never seen anything like this.
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| The Night Kitchen's Radio Theatre made their debut at the Kennedy Center and XM Radio Live, Wednesday night December 21 before an invitation only audience. The evenings show, The Emperor's New Clothes, featured special guests Debra Winger and Arliss Howard. The theatre's founder and director, Arthur Yorinks, says the idea is to bring the audience a rich and refreshing original "oasis" from the current landscape of television and film. The script was adapted by Yorinks for radio from the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale |
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THE SHERLOCK HOLMES THEATER is being
published by Blackstone Audiobooks (www.blackstoneaudio.com) in January.
Directed and produced by Yuri Rasovsky, it includes Martin Jarvis playing Holmes and Kristoffer Tabori essays Watson, with Dwight
Schultz, Tony Jay, Phil Proctor, Roslyn Ayers and a pretty damn good supporting cast!
Making the noise (sorry...sound effects) was Tony Palermo. The package consists of the only two full-length plays written by Conan Doyle himself, SHERLOCK HOLMES, co-written with William Gillette, and THE STONOR CASE, based on "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." There is no other sound recording of the two plays. |
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MICHAEL LEARMONTH from Variety Magazine reports that
Sirius Satellite Radio will partner with
Charlie Kaufman and the Coen brothers to produce
2 new radio dramas based on Coen's "Sawbones" and Kaufman's "Hope Leaves the Theater"
The shows will have music scored from them and be performed live for three nights at St. Ann's Warehouse in Gotham and then move to the Royal Festival Hall in London. The event is being called Theater of the New Ear. |
 On Tuesday 21 September 2004 at 6.30pm The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy returns to Radio 4 for a brand new series. Hear the demo and more...
Announcing the first major radio event of the new millennium:
The sequels to THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
As Douglas Adams wished, internationally acclaimed audio producer Dirk Maggs
has adapted and will be directing the the final books of the HITCHHIKER'S
GUIDE TO THE GALAXY. The 'Tertiary Phase' LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND
EVERYTHING is scheduled for broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2004.
Much of the original cast will appear in the new series including: Simon
Jones as Arthur Dent, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, Geoff McGivern
as Ford Prefect, Susan Sheridan as Trillion, and Stephen Moore as Marvin.
Many new voices are also cast including William Franklyn as the Book, and
Roger Gregg of Ireland's Crazy Dog Audio Theatre as Eddie the on-board
computer.
More details NOW at www.crazydogaudiotheatre.com
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Roger Gregg and Dirk Maggs
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| Recently Published: Blackstone (www.blackstoneaudio.com) has published on cassette, CD and MP3, Yuri Rasovsky's 1981 Peabody Award-winning "Odyssey of Homer," which has not been in circulation for 20 years! |
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An Independent Audio Theatre Producers Conference
"Creating Contacts and Collaborations" Hosted by: Great Northern Audio Theatre and KFAI-FM Community Radio, with support from: Assoc of Independents in Radio (AIR), The National Audio Theatre Festivals (NATF), and Radio K |
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| Atlanta's three professional acting unions - the Screen Actor's Guild (SAG),
the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA),
and Actor's Equity Association (AEA) raised over $1300 and 827 pounds of food for the local
food co-op. Read more...
2006 Date is Monday November 13 |
| Brian Bull of Wisconsin Public Radio reported on NPR about
Arkham House. In his report he featured a sound bite from The Atlanta Radio
Theatre Company's The Dunwich Horror. You can hear that report here. |
| BODYLOVE has been awarded three (3) of the prestigious Communicator Awards!
The program was entered in three categories of the Audio competition (Best Instructional Program, Best Creative Concept, Best Scriptwriting) and won them all. This is an enormous tribute to all the dedicated and talented people who made Season One of this show come together. BODYLOVE is the brainchild of several dedicated health professionals at the UAB School of Public Health. They wanted to produce a radio serial drama (better known as a "soap opera") which would subtly teach about health issues in the listening area of local radio station WJLD. Check out the program. |
| GREAT NORTHERN AUDIO THEATRE is pleased to announce the release of two new comedy CD DOUBLE-HEADERS:
PETER GALAXY:
A Great Northern Audio Double-Header
featuring: PETER GALAXY: Can two retired, old-time radio actors find work for 300 billion illegal aliens and still find time to finish their game of gin rummy? Michael Sheard (Admiral Ozzel in Star War's Empire Strikes Back, Dr. Who) and David Ossman (Firesign Theatre) join forces to show just much fun answering that question can be. TELL THEM NAPA SEND YOU: An average guy leaves the relative safety of an average auto parts store to take on Dwarf Cavern Fabrications, Sirens and Urchins (among others) in search of the perfect replacement part for whatever it was that broke. It was a wonderful experience to drag two consummate pros onto the same stage, provide them with a wonderful supporting cast and an enthusiastic audience, and watch them go to work.
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Soundstage Audio Theatre has once again been recognized at the Communicator Awards.
Offramp received two Crystal Awards of Excellence at the 2003 Communicators -- for Radio Programs/Other and for Narration/On Air Talent/Humor. The Sixty Second Radio Hour received an Award of Distinction for Writing/Humor and an Honorable Mention for Writing/Script.
Offramp is an improvisational audio project of surrealism, absurdity, high comedy, low drama, or music featuring Gary Bass, Matthew Cowley and David Waterman, and produced by Sheila Cowley. More information is available at http://www.offrampinfo.com. Offramp is available for free to radio stations in a series of thirteen half-hours. A single cd "best of" sampler is available for sale at offrampinfo.com. The Sixty Second Radio Hour is a series of short sketches, vignettes, and audio dreams, written and produced by Matthew Cowley. More information at http://www.radiosoundstage.com. The Sixty Second Radio Hour is available as well -- free for radio play and for sale on the radiosoundstage site. There are two cds so far, with roughly 23 episodes on each one. Soundstage is a production of WMNF 88.5 FM in Tampa, FL. http://www.wmnf.org. The Communicator Awards are an international competition honoring excellence in audio communications. More information at http://www.communicator-awards.com/audio/ |
| "Not From Space" from Borgus Productions has received the Crystal Award of
Excellence from the Communicator Awards.
This international award is judged by a panel of industry proffesionals and given to
those audio productions which serve as a benchmark for the industry.
"Not From Space" is a two-hour alien invasion created entirely through the Internet.
The story is like a modern "War of the Worlds" news broadcast, only this time Bill Gates
is one of the aliens. Includes the voices of 15 worldwide actors and the music of
Australia's "Send One."
This production also won the silver Mark Time science fiction award earlier this year and was featured in a special documentary on Danish National Radio. In October it was broadcast on XM Satellite Radio. Now airing on the W0kie satellite network and various FM Stations.
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New website for Willamette Radio Workshop - Portland, OR.www.radiowork.com
The third and last of our Sherlock Holmes trilogy, The Final Adventure, is now available for listening at http://www.mp3.com/oneact |
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Jeffrey Adamsis reports that he has begun to experiment with my own, short series in mp3 on the web
The series is called Imagination X. My hope is to update six or more times
a year with stories of the fantastic, the incredible, the delightful, the
terrifying. The first show in the series, 'Distance' starring me and my
iMac computer (playing the role of an onboard ship's computer) is available
at the line below. Enjoy, and thank you.
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New Listing - Riverfront Radio Playhouse. streaming 40 shows in rotation.
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BBC7
The BBC has launched a new channel and web feed playing
unadulterated entertainment. They are playing classic British Drama and
they'll also be adding Dr. Who and Blake's Seven.
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