As you may remember, for New Year’s of this year I finally got to see The Post-Meridian Radio Players live on First Night, doing one of their originals Red Shift, Interplanetary Do-gooder (a fun spin-off/tribute to campy 50s sci-fi) as well as their rendition of Arch Obeler’s classic “Chicken Heart.”

To kick off the excitement for their upcoming Halloween show (more on that in a moment), they’ve launched a YouTube channel with clips from the January show:

For more clips, see their new YouTube channel. In short: they played staggeringly well before a packed house at the Orpheum Theater, and now they’re back for their annual Halloween show, which is bigger than ever. In fact, they’re calling it “The Big Broadcast of October 30th, 1938.”

The show will consist of four performances at the historic Somerville Theatre, and you can bet I’ll at one of them. Here is some more info about the show:

THE FRANK CYRANO BYFAR HOUR – A lost classic from Boston’s radio history!

Travel back to the Golden Age of Radio, to the Rooftop Gardens Auditorium of the old Putnam-Moore Department Store in downtown Boston, and join Frank, Amelia Adams, Charley Kendall, Jenny Brennan, Lex Concord and the Minutemen and the Chowderhouse Gang for some great music, lots of Halloween fun, and a very special guest star!

Sponsored by Byfar Coffee Syrup: “You’ll be a star when you serve Byfar!”

and

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS – The Mob vs. the Martians & the Fall of Boston!

We all know about the horrific events which began on the night of October 30th, 1938. An invasion force from the planet Mars landed their rocket-cylinders around the world, starting in New Jersey. But what happened in Boston during the so-called “War of the Worlds?”
Now we are able to bring you the true story of the Martian Invasion of Boston, using news bulletins and field reports – as given by the actual announcers, historical figures and military personnel at the time, and dramatic recreations to depict the amazing story of how a North End mobster, an MIT scientist, and the Massachusetts National Guard allied themselves to carry out one final strike against the Martians and drive them from the city!

Original music by Michael J. Veloso, performed by the popular Somerville troupe, Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band

Like I said… It oughta be a good time. See you in Boston?

Okay, well I’m going to go out on a limb and say only a handful of people from London will actually read this, but I do think the Wireless Theatre Company’s next live radio play sounds pretty killer:

Come with the Wireless Theatre Company as we take you on a journey of madness, terror and gruesome, GRUESOME MURDER! The decaying walls of Stottesden Hall are the setting for our latest LIVE recording of a new radio play by Stuart Price based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe, and we would love to see you there for an evening of comedy, terror and sinister plinky-plonky piano music. Dare you miss it..?

Thursday 7th May, 7.30pm

Headliners Comedy Club, George IV, 185 Chiswick High Road, Chiswick, London, W4 2DR

Should you actually be able to make it, you can buy tickets here!

Thank you Google Alerts for turning me on to this one — today (that’s Dec 3) there will be a live dramatization of “A Christmas Carol” put on at the Brewer, Maine Middle School and broadcast online on WHSN-FM.

The Bangor Daily News covered the live dramatization in depth.

Brewer’s a bit of a haul, even for me, but I think you’ll be able to hear it streamed online at: WHSN’s website. There are also rumors that it’ll be podcast later on.

And in case you miss this for your Scrooge fix, note that Radio Drama Revival will be broadcasting Quicksilver Radio Theatre’s rendition of A Christmas Carol for the Christmas Day episode.

Ghoulish tales for the ear were heard last night as goblins and ghosts radiated out through the radio waves…

Hear it now!

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Radio Drama Revival 2008 Halloween Audio Horror Special

Special thanks due to…

• Crazy Dog Audio Theatre – Marianette 1.1
  
• Bill Dufris – The Horror of Walker’s Point
  
• FinalRune – Dark Passenger
• Echo Fiction – For being a great place to listen to new audio!
• The Grist Mill – The Estates
  
• Kevin MacLoed (LOTS of awesome music on his website)
• Oh… and a shout out to Anne Cammon at WKCR where FinalRune made another appearance… Let’s hear it for the ears in New York City!

Well a few weeks back I mentioned live “Dracula” in Kenosha, Wisconson, and for those of you lucky enough to be in the area tonight you can go check out RG Productions‘ “Retro Radio Holiday Revue.”? This show features favorite comedies from the Old Time Radio era:? Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, Fibber McGee & Molly, and Bob Hope.? Starts just a few hours from now, 1 p.m. at the Kenosha Public Museum.

Now for all of us our here in cyber-land, they promise to have the show archived on the website within a week, and you can now check out their haunting take on Dracula to tide you over!

Audio fans in the Kenosha, Wisconsin area will be treated to a live production of Orson Welles’ adaptation of Dracula this Halloween.? The drama is being produced by Wisconson-based RG Productions, an audio theater group that produces faithful re-creations of old time stuff and has ties with other producers, including the Willamette Radio Workshop.? It sounds like a lot of fun, and for those of us many, many miles from Wisconsin, I hope they put it up on the web!