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MONDAY, JULY 12th, 2010
2010 Halloween
Show Announced!
THE POST-MERIDIAN
RADIO PLAYERS return to the Somerville
Theatre this October with another Halloween radio extravanagnza!
The Big Broadcast
of 1946 will feature live entertainment as originally heard on radio station WPM on the night of Sunday, October 27th, 1946, including:
The Frank Cyrano Byfar Hour: It's Halloween and Frank is desperate to get Boris Karloff — visiting Boston in a performance of Arsenic and Old Lace — onto the show. With just a few hours left to air, Frank is in a panic and only a miracle will save the Rooftop Garden Players' climactic production!
Tomes of Terror: Another Boston original! WPM's classic frightfest, hosted by The Bookeeper. Twin tales of terror designed to keep you glued to your seats before sending you screaming from the theater! Featuring:
But Oh, What Happened to Hutchings!
and The Sirens of War
Written for PMRP by award-winning
author Alicia
E. Goranson, The Mask of Inanna is two five-part
miniseries which tell the story of Leonard Allen, host of
the 1950's horror radio show After Dark, who is taken
out of retirement by a mysterious organization to finish broadcasting
the unaired episodes over a pirate radio station based out
of a New England lighthouse.
Each episode is two shows in one—the main story in
a modern setting and an episode of the original After
Dark—and features a terrific cast, including Andrew
LeBrun, Nellie Farrington, Doug Miller, Katherine Bryant,
Mike Babish, Marleigh Norton and James Scheffller.
Countdown
to Mask of Inanna Launch - First Trailer Released!
In just a few days - on Monday, June 21st
- Episode #1 of PMRP's
five-part miniseries, The Mask
of Inanna, will premiere, along with a brand new website
just for the show. Until then, we are releasing the
series' first trailer. Enjoy!
The Mask of Inanna
- Trailer
128kbps NetQ
Running Time: 2:50
It's here! PMRP
presents p.m., a series
of short audio plays in the sci-fi, fantasy and horror genres.
Today's premiere features two brand-new audios: the sci-fi
tale Switches,
by Paul Dworkin, and an adaptation of Voyage
of the Demeter from Bram Stoker's Dracula.
The Big
Broadcast Website is Up and Tickets are On Sale!
The Official
Website of "The Big Broadcast
of October 30th, 1938" is up and running!
Our 2009 Halloween extravaganza, which will be performed
on the main stage of the Somerville
Theatre, now has its own web home. Stop by and look around!
Our 2009 Halloween extravaganza has been cast!
THE POST-MERIDIAN RADIO PLAYERS
are pleased to announce the cast
and crew for "The Big Broadcast
of October 30th, 1938", which will be performed
on the main stage of the Somerville
Theatre!
THE POST-MERIDIAN
RADIO PLAYERS will be celebrating their fifth year
performing live radio drama in the Boston area with a very
special show at the Somerville
Theatre!
The show, entitled "The Big Broadcast
of October 30th, 1938" will feature:
The Frank Cyrano Byfar Hour:
A lost Boston radio classic! The War of the Worlds: The Mob
vs. the Martians and the Fall of Boston
THE POST-MERIDIAN
RADIO PLAYERS will be returning to Boston's
largest sci-fi convention and bringing Red Shift:
Interplanetary Do-Gooder with them!
Join Red, Lumpy, Doctor Alberts and Penny Parker, Girl Reporter
as they track down a team of would-be Do-Gooders, only to
encounter Red's arch-nemesis, the scheming Violet Spektra!
THE POST-MERIDIAN
RADIO PLAYERS have been invited to perform as part
of Boston's expansive First
Night festivities: a city-wide extravaganza celebrating
the arts and featuring over 200 local groups performing in
40 venues.
The show, entitled "Countdown
to Chaos!" will feature:
ACT 1:Red Shift:
Interplanetary Do-Gooder in "Countdown to Chaos!" INTERMISSION:Interactive
Foley Demonstration ACT 2:Arch Oboler's
"Chicken Heart"
Come see radio drama performed
the way it was back in the 1930's, 40's & 50's.
Actors at microphones, live sound effects artists, and recorded
audio effects will transport the audience from the cockpit
of a heroic Do-Gooder's futuristic spaceship to the panic-sticken
streets of a city doomed by science-gone-wrong!
THE POST-MERIDIAN
RADIO PLAYERS' annual live Halloween 'Staged-Radio
Thrillogy', Tomes of Terror
III, opens Wednesday night at Unity
Church of God near Davis Square in Somerville. The show
features performances of:
The Baby Snooks Show: The
1946 Halloween Episode Reynardine: Based on the English
folk song "The Mountains High" The Tell-Tale Heart: Poe's
classic tale of methodical murder
Come see radio drama performed
the way it was back in the 1930's, 40's & 50's! It's a
show with local actors, a team of artists making sound effects
with everyday (and not-so-everyday) objects, atmospheric digital
audio effects, live musical accompaniment and a creepy, enigmatic
host called The Librarian. You won't want to miss it!
THE POST-MERIDIAN RADIO PLAYERS are
pleased to announce that they have finished casting their third
annual Halloween show. The list of cast and crew members can
be found on the Tomes of Terror
III page or by clicking
here.
MONDAY, AUGUST 4th, 2008
Tomes of
Terror II Photo Page at Flickr Updated
Photos from THE POST-MERIDIAN RADIO
PLAYERS 2007 Staged-Radio Thrillogy, Tomes
of Terror II, are now up and captioned on our Flickr
page!
You can see our photos through this site by clicking here
or on the Photo Gallery link to
the left. Or you can go directly to our Flickr page here.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8th, 2008
PMRPod
#3 Premieres!
#3:TOMES
OF TERROR II: The Stone Ship: The last
episode in this set of The Post-Meridian
RadioPod releases, this time featuring the Tomes
of Terror II adaptation of William Hope Hodgson's seabound
thriller "The Stone Ship", which was originally written
for CBC Radio's Nightfall
series in 1980.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1st, 2008
PMRPod
#2 Premieres!
#2:TOMES
OF TERROR II: Carmilla: Another episode
of The Post-Meridian RadioPod
featuring a performance from our October 2007 live Halloween show,
Tomes of Terror II.
This time it's an adaptation of J. Sheridan LeFanu's classic vampire
tale Carmilla, from a script originally written for a 1981
episode of CBC Radio's Nightfall
series.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 25th, 2008
PMRPod
Launches!
#1:TOMES OF TERROR
II: Our Miss Brooks - "Halloween Party":
The very first episode of our very first podcast! The
Post-Meridian RadioPod premieres with the first of three
weekly episodes featuring performances from our October 2007 live
Halloween show, Tomes of Terror
II. The show opens with the 1949 Halloween episode
of the classic Golden Age comedy, Our
Miss Brooks.
Catch a quick glimpse of our highly-successful performance with
this trailer or visit the Havoc Over Holowood!
page for low-quality and Internet-quality
files of the entire performance that you can download or listen
to on-line!
Havoc Over Holowood:
Trailer
128kbps IQ
Running Time: 1:08
AND
COMING SOON...
DATE TBA
The Original
Red Shift Adventure to Premiere!
#4:RED SHIFT: INTERPLANETARY
DO-GOODER in The Terror of Terra-Khan —
Episode 1: The studio production of the pilot serial
of Rob Noyes' sci-fi comedy, Red
Shift: Interplanetary Do-Gooder. Based on our live
performance from Arisia '07,
this is the classic origin story: how Dr. Alberts and Penny Parker,
Girl Reporter met Red Shift and Lumpy and why the Universe will
never be the same again!
