Radio plays.

  • Night voices: insomnia (Episode 1 of 4)

    The first of a four-part radio theater piece conceived by director Joseph Chaikin entitled “Night Voices.” Funded by the Satellite Program Development Fund, each program explores a different aspect of the time between wake and sleep. Each tape combines improvisation and text. The four episodes are “Insomnia,” “Intimacy,” “Mysteries,” and “Patterns.” Each episode aired consecutively…

  • We regret to inform you: a radio drama by Grace Cavalieri

    This radio drama was written by Grace Cavalieri, directed by Dorothy Biondi [sp?], and consists of four characters: Doctor (Jeremy Gage); Nurse Jane (Ellen Mead); Nurse Brown (Kate van Burick); Allen (Cotter Smith). The story: a mad scientist has created the perfect machine. He hires a night watchman to stay with it until its heart…

  • Three plays: What Have You Done For Me Lately, Pas De Deux, and Small Change

    Three plays about women, produced by the Unlearning to Not Speak Collective. Play #1: “What Have You Done For Me Lately” by Myrna Lamb, players: “Man” – Larry Rosenthal, “Woman” – Kathy McAnally; Play #2: “Pas De Deux” by Myrna Lamb, players: “Man” – Larry Rosenthal, “Woman” – Vera Houdek; Play #3: Scenes from “Small…

  • Coser y cantar / by Dolores Prida ; produced by Adina Back and Felipe Goroztiza. (Part 2 of 2)

    Humorous radio drama about a day in the life of a bicultural women in the United States. In cue: Voice: “Coser y Cantar, Part 2, a day in the life and mind of a woman caught between two worlds.” Out cue: Voice (male): “Coser y Cantar, Part 2, a day in the life and mind…

  • Artist descending a staircase / Tom Stoppard. (Episode 2, Part 3 of 3)

    Artist Descending A Staircase / Tom Stoppard. – SERIES: Soundplay, 1991-1992| no. 2 – Drama about three old artists who have been friends since their youth, and share an attic. The drama opens following the death of one of the group: a death with mysterious circumstances. The drama addresses issues about truth, and about what…

  • The adventures of Sherlock Holmes : a collection (Episode 1)

    Detective stories starring John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Orson Welles. |r.1. How Dr. Watson med Sherlock Holmes (30 min.). — r.2. A Scandle in Bohemia (30 min.). — r.3. The Red headed league (22 min.). — r.4. The Gasfitter’s ball (26 min.). — r.5. The Second stain (27 min.). — r.6. The Bruce Partington plans…

  • The mind’s eye theatre

    The Mind’s Eye Theatre was created by Baird Searles, literature producer for WBAI’s Drama and Literature Department, in 1967. Originally titled The 99.5 Radio Theatre (cf. series BB3830), The Mind’s Eye Theatre produced plays and literary adaptations for radio, using state-of-the-art radio equipment and occasionally employing experimental techniques such as chance operations. The sources ranged…

  • Dying words (Episode 8 of 29, Part 1 of 2)

    A concert reading by WBAI’s Word Players about death, in five loosely defined movements: Statistical, Literary, Anthropological, Camp, and Reality. Sources include Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, the World Almanac, Catullus, Lewis Carroll, The Book of the Dead, Kenneth Lillquist, Arthur Machen, Rainer Maria Rilke, and the “Report of the National Advisory Committee on Civil…

  • Dying words (Episode 8 of 29, Part 2 of 2)

    A concert reading by WBAI’s Word Players about death, in five loosely defined movements: Statistical, Literary, Anthropological, Camp, and Reality. Sources include Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, the World Almanac, Catullus, Lewis Carroll, The Book of the Dead, Kenneth Lillquist, Arthur Machen, Rainer Maria Rilke, and the “Report of the National Advisory Committee on Civil…

  • Conspiracy, 1683 / produced by Bill Henderson.

    Radio drama based on the life of Algernon Sidney, a 17th century radical executed for his political writings.|CONSPIRACY 1683 / produced by Bill Henderson. – Radio drama based on the life of 17th century radical Algernon Sidney, who wrote that the King’s power was derived from the people. He was tried and executed (both hanged…