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It’s time for one more visit with Imploding Fictions and SoundStories tonight, so enjoy them while you can! Tonight’s show starts with Episode 3 of The Amelia Project and the curious case of Alicia Cairne.  The series is the brainchild of Philip Thorne and Oystein Brager, in association with Open House Theatre.  The production company focuses on International Theatre, with talented folks from France, Norway, Austria and the UK. They’ve been producing theatre works since 2007, and The Amelia Project is their first audio drama podcast.  They have already begun work on a Season Two, so if you like what you hear tonight there’s plenty more to be heard at their website andRead More →

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It’s time for lots of audio drama with just a little bit of babbling!  We’re back this week with more tales from  Imploding Fictions and SoundStories.  Kicking things off, we visit the offices of The Amelia Project with another client who needs to disappear on a deadline.  Following that, SoundStories takes us on a journey to the stars with 407 Arachne, where an exploration mission runs into some life-threatening problems.  You can find more stories like this in Great Northern Audio’s SideTracks collection at their website, greatnorthernaudio.com.  But first it’s time for The Amelia Project, Episode 2: Zale Indigo Ravenheart.  Enjoy! Don’t Forget to Check Out: –Read More →

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Well hi there!  It’s about time we had a new episode.  Thank you all for your patience as we took an unexpected break from new shows.  We’re back from the HEAR Now Festival, and it’s about time that we get back to some new audio drama selections.  We’re taking a look at identities this show, with two stories to go with it: a horror story entitled “Blood Night” by SoundStories.  We found this story within the newly-compiled collection of SideTracks – a large archive of Great Northern Audio Theatre-related works from outside their main production track.  There’s a lot more to listen to (over 20 years’Read More →

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And thank you for joining us on another premiere night of MAT Features!  We received all of the submissions to our scriptwriting competition, so it’s time for the judges to review the contenders!  In the meantime, we’re happy to bring you another one of our MAT Features from 2017. It’s a comedic romp through the woods with some suspicious undertones in Peter Gruenbaum’s “Bad Egg”.  After that, we have another variety of Decoder Ring Theatre – one of their Summer Showcase Series stories doing their take on a Great Northern Audio favorite. It’s the superhero mockumentary “The Saving of the World”. But first, time for our MAT Feature:Read More →

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Hello hello!  We’re finally back with a new set of series and shows to share with you.  If you missed it the previous show, we had a special broadcast-only episode of MAT, with an hour-long show of original works that premiered at past National Audio Theatre Festivals events. If you missed it, you can find the full NATF audio at prx.org. And we played those selections in part because the annual HEARNow Audio Fiction Festival drawing near. If you’re a listener or a producer of audio storytelling, the HEARNow Festival is a great event to celebrate the medium and reach out to fellow producers and listeners.  In fact, you mightRead More →

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Happy 2017, everyone!  Welcome to another new year as we drift through the audio cosmos.  As we prepare for the coming months and our newest MAT Features, we decided to revisit the Decoder Ring Theatre Showcase series.  Back in 2014, Decoder Ring teamed up with Great Northern Audio Theatre to produce “Mark Time Show Time” – a collection of stories that were originally written for live performance at the awards ceremony of the annual Mark Time Awards.  These scripts have been collected and produced with the Decoder Ring cast, and available for your listening enjoyment on their website.  This show we decided to take a listen toRead More →

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Welcome back, everyone!  Last week we sat in with 19 Nocturne Boulevard to hear some adaptations on two classic stories.  Tonight is something similar, but in a completely different vein – and yet, related.  Clear as mud? We’re talking about live radio drama performances!  Modern audio dramas performed before an audience, while throwing back to the style of Old-Time Radio (OTR).  If you’re a regular listener, you’ve heard some of this on our show already – performance recordings from groups like Atlanta Radio Theatre Company and Great Northern Audio Theatre have made their way to air here, and have been heard and performed at conventions andRead 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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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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