Happy Holidays, everyone!  November is gone, and now it’s time to shower you with many a winter-wonderland-type tale!  This month we’re breaking out the Christmas stories, and every year we try to find a collection of unique and lesser-known tales, instead of the traditional “Carol”.  Tonight is certainly high on that unique list, with pieces from The Truth Podcast and 19 Nocturne Boulevard.  We start with “Naughty or Nice“, which shows us a glimpse of the infrastructure behind Santa’s corporate organization.  After that is a “Trilogy for Xmas“, with stories from the 1912 anthology “A Christmas Garland”, adapted for audio drama – “Scruts” by Arnold Bennett, “PCRead More →

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Happy Last-Week-Of-November, everyone!  I have some good news and possibly not-so-good news. The not-so-good: there’s no new MAT Feature tonight. But we have a good reason, and it leads us to our good news — we have a full show with the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company tonight, as they share with us some stories that fit into our last week of focus on family and remembrance.  Admittedly, those of you in the U.S. will note that this episode aired the day (or two) after Thanksgiving – but between Black Friday madness and the horrors that have come to light in the news this month, it only seemed fitting that we take the extra time and sitRead More →

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We’re on week three of our November episodes!  If you’ve missed it recently, we’re waiting until December for all of the winter holiday celebrations and have been focusing on stories with themes of rememberance and family this month. Tonight continues on that track, by bringing you the second half of “In the Embers” by Great Northern Audio Theatre.  When we last left our story, archaeologist Digger Moran had just received the alarming news that access to his dig site was about to be plowed down by local developers, just as he’s begun to scratch the surface of the mystery behind lost 1920s jazz singer Kit Jeffers.  AtRead More →

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Audio drama, get your audio drama!  This month we’ve decided to wait on the winter holiday hullabaloo, and instead  focus on  stories involving family and remembrance in our lead-up to Thanksgiving. This week and next we have a story from Great Northern Audio Theatre, entitled “In the Embers” which premiered at the HEAR Now Festival in Kansas City earlier this year.  With this story’s release, Great Northern Audio is excited to announce that their story has been picked up by Blackstone Audio, and is available on their website starting December 8th.  That includes a making-of documentary created especially for the release of “In the Embers”. Be sure to check theRead More →

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Welcome back, audio drama fans!  Halloween has passed and October has come and gone – and for many people, that means all kinds of December holiday celebrations are on the horizon.  But there’s still plenty to celebrate in November – in the U.S., the most familiar ones are Veteran’s Day and Thanksgiving.  With that in mind, we decided to celebrate these holidays before all of the Winter-Wonderland-craziness, by bringing you stories with elements of family and remembrance.  This week we have the latest story from Sue Media Productions and Midsummer Sound Company, entitled “Never Again War: The Sacrifice of Käthe Kollwitz” by Helen Engelhardt.  As oneRead More →

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Every year on Halloween, MAT steps aside from their regular programming to make way for local Columbus show, “Craft“.  Craft is a weekly show that features and discusses artists and creative individuals and the work they do – and for Halloween, they put together an hour-long program of spooky tales told and performed by local Columbus talent.  Go take a listen when you have the chance! Don’t Forget to Check Out: – Craft The Show – Halloween Special – WCBE 90.5 FM Columbus  

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Welcome, folks!  We’re counting down the weeks of our spooky shows!  Tonight we have a trio of stories for you, with some special shorts and a long lighthouse mystery.  We are happy to share with you a new, local Columbus audio production, “The Zombie Teddy Bear“, based off of the children’s book by David Simone – it may sound scary, but it’s actually quite charming.  Following that is a joint production from Final Rune Productions and Biddeford High School in Maine, entitled “Vampire in the Vernal Pool” – part of a project to combine theatre art as outdoors-experimental learning. And of course, we have the secondRead More →

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Tonight we have something a little different in store for your eager ears. Last month we went to the HEAR Now Audio Fiction Festival in Kansas City, and I promised to report back about it. Tonight’s segment looks at the festival itself, how it began, some features of it and where it’s going in the future. This is our first time doing a segment like this – let us know what you think! Feel free to leave us a comment below, or email us at midnightaudiotheatre@gmail.com. For the second half of our show tonight, we’re kicking off our HEAR Now summer – pieces we heardRead More →

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Happy Post-Fourth-of-July, everyone! Last week we had a rerun of sorts – while we haven’t heard many Independence Day-themed audio dramas, we did a political/humor-themed one a while back for Election Day. So, we brought that show back for last week’s holiday. If you missed it, you can find the episode here. Happy listening! As for tonight, we are back to more new tales. This episode, we have two stories in genres we haven’t heard in quite some time, from a production group that is well-loved and well-missed from last time they were on our show. Final Rune Productions has been awarded several recognitions forRead More →

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Welcome back for another evening of audio drama, folks! We have made our way into June this week, and that means the HEAR Now Audio Fiction Festival will be coming up very soon in Kansas City. Midnight Audio Theatre will be there, wandering around with a mic and sitting in at the Podcaster’s Round Table on Saturday, June 13th at 6:30pm, so be sure to stop on by and say hi! Last week we shared with you Part 1 of Radio Theater Project‘s story, Four Just Men. This show we’ll be tying things up with the second half of this suspense story. But first, weRead More →

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