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!
