Monday Matinee

Re-Imagined Radio samples two stories by Martin J. Gallagher, an independent composer and sound designer based in Portland, Oregon. Both stories are framed by music. "And the Waters Were Music" tells of Gallagher's 1998 visit to China with his wife Rose. He remembers how water and music were a part of his experience. "And the Ruins Became a Prayer," tells of learning about the war in Ukraine. In t...

"Did you hear about the plot to overthrow Christmas? Well, gather ye now from Maine to the Isthmus of Panama, and listen to the story of the utter inglory of some gory goings-on in hell. It happened down there that the fiends held a meeting for the purpose of defeating Christmas. With the aid of a fade, a fade on the radio, we'll take you there with a hi and hey-di-ho!" Project Audion has lovingly...

David rides alone this week as Jack is lost in the wilds of Nova Scotia. Franny (Jenna Elfman) and Jim (Bodhi Elfman) have been happily married for 12 years. Until one night Franny wakes up with a very unsettling thought. What's her secret? The dark comedy, “A Beautiful Spell” is the beginning of Secrets, Crimes & Audiotape. This week it's parts one and two!

Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee for another powerful week! This week it's Sonic Society #785, Project Audion Episode 13, and Re-Imagined Radio: Water and Ruins!

We're thrilled to re-welcome Re-Imagined Radio back to the Monday Matinee stage as they present two radio stories, "Retribution" and "Restitution," both written by Cindy Brown, an actor, director, producer, playwright, and disabilities advocate based in Portland, Oregon. Both of Brown's stories are crime fictions for radio. Our tribute to Women's History Month. Part of our Guest Writer series.

Scary days, these. To suite the times, Project Audion episode offers three stories you know, from an old radio series that you don't. Edgar Allan Poe stories "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Purloined Letter", and "The Fall of the House of Usher" were adapted into taut, streamlined 15-minute editions for a lost mid-century syndicated radio series: "We Know a Poe Story." Project Audion's live-transcribe...

This week Jack and David look into "Confessions of a New Grad". When Brooklyn Winters graduates from university, she thinks that her adult life will “just kind of figure itself out.” Spoiler alert: this doesn’t happen. Six weeks after graduation, she has no job, no money, and is frantically calling her best friend to come and rescue her from the basement suite she has unwisely moved into with her...

Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee early as a refuge from the storm. Come in and enjoy Sonic Society #784, Project Audion #12, and Re-Imagined Radio: Retribution-Restitution!

Project Audion's live-transcribed cross-continental Zoom-based production for October is an episode from Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre on the Air from 1938. No, not the "War of the Worlds" which everyone knows, but "Around the World in 80 Days" which aired the week before. Welles, John Houseman, and Howard Koch condensed Jules Verne's 1872 novel into a fast-paced 60 minutes, and fewer than 20 char...

The latest performance by Chicago's Northside/Southside Radio Players is "Put the Kettle On," Episode Two -- The Furry Turtles." This zany original musical comedy features the return of Mrs. Ellen Thackeray, her brother Bertie, and their handyman, Merkle. Merkle's discovery of strange little creatures living under the garage precipitates a near-miracle, as penned by and featuring David Drazin, wit...

We're off and running with Season 19 as tonight's feature is Roi Gold Productions' "Fall of the House of Sunshine". The complete and crazy musical adventures that begins with the murder of kids' TV show host and spins out into a world of: angry puppets, a tooth worshipping cult, a fuzzy elder god, and so, so much more! It's Episodes 1- 3: Open Wide and Say Die, Down in the Dank Darkness Darts Dank...

Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee when school's impending. Don't play hooky! Get your last free day with Sonic Society #783, Northside/Southside Radio Players: Put the Kettle on #2, and Project Audion #11!

Project Audion's 10th episode recreates one the best episodes from the award-winning 1950s science fiction series "X Minus One" using a cross-country Zoom conference and a cast of both Audion veterans and first-timers: Announcer: Trevor Rines in Canada Narrator: Kim Titus in Texas Guy Burkhardt: Lothar Tuppan in California Mary Burkhardt: Rachel Pulliam in Missouri Henry Swanson: Duane Noch in New...

The latest performance by Chicago's Northside/Southside Radio Players is "The Man From Lot Two": a zany musical comedy adapted for audio theater from a 1966 script originally penned by authors Bob Connelly and Raymon Bruce, who worked in Hollywood on the crews of hit TV shows. Our story features Douglas Bryan Bean as a "movie nut" with a chameleon like ability to change his appearance at will and...

To kick off this inaugural week of Season 19 of the Sonic Society, hosts Jack and David have a special feature of The Crossing Guard Tapes by Jim Waters with Tape 1 Side A and B and Side A of Tape two...  Hit play!

Federal Stonecipher returns this week for the last days of summer with Sonic Society #782, Northside/Southside Radio Players: The Man From Lot Two, and Project Audion #10!

Project Audion premieres our recreation of the classic supernatural radio show "Lights Out" - a 1943 episode entitled "Little Old Lady." It's a ghostly story written and directed by the master of spooky stories, Arch Oboler. It's a tale truly made for radio, where you close your eyes and let your imagination run wild. Except this time, keep your eyes open and watch the voice actors do their stuff....

Welcome back to our final episode of No Soap Radio- for now- on Monday Matinee! This week  Jack Benny returns with "Hello Louella"!

In our Season 18 finale, Jack and David think over the year and provide a double helping of MIDST! Three mischievous narrators spin a surreal, reality-bending, sci-fantasy space western about a crotchety outlaw, a struggling cultist, and a diabolical bastard making awful decisions in a world on the edge of disaster. This season finale "Unrise" and "Secrets"! Once more, it's Audio Drama Time!

Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee in this August week with Sonic Society #781, No Soap Radio: Jack Benny- Hello Louella, and Project Audion #9- Lights Out!

Project Audion’s newest cross-country OTR recreation is an episode of the police drama "The Lineup" which hasn't been heard since it was originally broadcast in January 1952. The Lineup was added to the CBS radio schedule after Dragnet became a massive hit, and ran for four years on radio, plus six years on television and a 1958 movie. The lead cop role (which was portrayed in 1952 by Bill Johnsto...

Our 11th NO SOAP RADIO production created in April, 2025. This is a recreation of The X MINUS ONE radio episode..."THE PARADE". This episode introduces two new actors to the No Soap family…Andy Hartson-Bowyer and Pete Lutz (Narada Radio Group). The show was produced, directed and edited by Paul Kovit. If you’d like to see a video version of this show checkout our website: https://nosoapradioplayer...

This week Jack and David take a long three episode ride with Paradise Cab: A Paranormal Mystery! We feature episodes 1-3 with "The Tourist", "Follow that Cab" and "Keep the Change"! Cab driver Joe is sent to pick up a new fare each week, by Angie, Paradise Cab’s dispatcher, who seems to know a little more about things than seems natural. It's Audio Drama Time!

Come in from the heat! Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee with Sonic Society #780, No Soap Radio: X-Minus One: The Parade, and Project Audion #8: "The Lineup"!

Project Audion presents our recreation of an episode of Screen Guild Theatre, AKA Hollywood Soundstage. "The Ox-Bow Incident" was a best-selling book in 1940, a blockbuster Western movie in 1943, and adapted for the Screen Guild Theatre radio show no less than three times. Our version is from 1952. It's a story of vengeance and violence -- a gritty look at a group of men who turned into a mob. The...