It’s another world premiere! With this episode, we conclude our celebration of Midnight Audio Theatre-produced features with the debut of a story by K.G. Kline; it won in our 2019 scriptwriting competition. “No Man’s Land” opens above Earth.  A vast orbiting luxury space hotel has been converted into a weather observation station with just one occupant.  The ho-hum routine of her daily duties must alter suddenly when she receives a surprising transmission from a long-forgotten vessel.  This may alter more than her daily duties – it could alter the entire course of this future human society. There are stories behind the story, too.  It wasRead More →

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We continue taking our gaze inside:  to audio dramas produced right here by the many minions of Midnight Audio Theatre.  All of whom are Cathy Rinella*, your show host AND supreme sound designer, audio engineer, writer, director…well, you get the idea.  As she reads each entry from our annual scriptwriting competition, she hears how the characters and action will play to the ear, then holds tight to the demanding detail that her mind’s ear creates. That quality shows. You’ll hear it for yourself in all our offerings in this episode.  It’s a trilogy of tales penned by three-time competition champ Evan Waters, beginning with “BondsRead More →

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Midnight Audio Theatre’s features festival is roughly midstride as we present you with a world premiere.  Every year, we’re amazed at the incredible quality and creativity of the works submitted in our annual scriptwriting competition.  Last year (2019) was no exception. You’re about to hear “Wingbeats” by K.S.Dearsley.  Dearsley is an accomplished writer in multiple media – including plays, books, short fiction and poetry.   A Doctor Who fan, she loves to create speculative fiction. In “Wingbeats,” young Katya is sent to live with her aunt in a foreign country after weather ruins the crops in her impoverished farming village.  Her aunt, though, is not theRead More →

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Our Features Festival continues as we present winners from the annual Midnight Audio Theatre scriptwriting competition.  We’ve held the competition since 2012, so plenty of fantastic original audio dramas from multiple genres exist to titillate your fancy. We focus in this installment on the human factor:  personal relationships and loss. “Sea and Sky” opens the show.  Written by Michael McPherson, this 2017 winner delves into the magic that thrives in the special relationship between grandchildren and grandparents.  Then, 2013 winner “A Choice Between” by Glenn Hascall brings you to the intersection of guilt, sorrow, and the afterlife after a fatal car crash.  We conclude withRead More →

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All year long, we feature the best English-language audio dramas we can find from around the world.  Now, it’s time for our own features! Here – and continuing in the next couple of episodes – we present original stories written by the winners of our annual scriptwriting competition.  We’re taking a break from the competition for 2020, but there are plenty of other stellar stories stored and standing by. Our last episode (#346) presented wonderful, haunting works from Jim McDoniel’s entries for 2017 and 2018.  This time, get ready for the debut of his 2019 winning script, “The Wild Hunt.”  When a soldier drifts intoRead More →

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Well, we’ve had our fill of science fiction lately – how about something different for your audio palette? We’re happy to have ZoomDoom Stories sharing their newest podcast series, Mirrors with us for a bit of late-night horror storytelling. Written and produced by “SPINES” creator Jamie Killen, the series is an example of storytelling that doesn’t need much in the way of sound design, crafted in the style of found audio logs and episodic reporting. The story stars Jamie along with Lucy Pearce and Sarah Hemmi, with occasional voicing from Sarah Rhea Warner of “Girl In Space”. Mirrors is currently working through the production ofRead More →

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We’re launching back into space! On this show, we’ve got the spectacular folks from Marsfall back for a full hour of action and suspense on the red planet. From the folks at Amity Bros Productions, Marsfall is going strong with one full season under its belt and Season Two well underway, along with mini episodes happening on their Patreon page. The series creators – Erik Saras, Sam Boase-Miller and Dan Lovley – brought together the story of Marsfall as a space epic turned radio drama for today’s listeners. There’s plenty of suspense, mystery and the unknown as the crew and colonists of Sequoia VII tryRead More →

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Welcome back, audio drama fans! Congratulations to everyone who submitted to our scriptwriting contest. Submissions are now closed, and we’ll be announcing the winners in two weeks – so keep your ears open and your eyes peeled. This show, it’s a full assortment of stories to tell – from the gumshoes on the street, to a young child’s kingdom, to the red planet next door. We’ll start things out with Black Jack Justice from Decoder Ring Theatre in “The More Things Change” to get your weekly dose of noir in. After that is another story from A.R. Olivieri – one all about survival in theRead More →

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Hello dear listeners! Wouldn’t you know, we had a last-minute change for this show. Questions, uncertainties and unknowns led us to pulling out these two Black Jack Justice tales that, at the end of the night, felt very fitting for a show where nothing goes the way you plan. Jack Justice and Trixie Dixon are back as they tackle the protection and ousting of a conundrum of the academic community, with a snake that seems to have deviated from the norm. After that, the police has Justice and Dixon behind bars for a crime they didn’t commit. It’s another night of noir with Decoder RingRead More →

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Hi audio drama fans! As we’re getting caught up on our episode logs, we’re sorry to say that at the time of this posting, the MAT scriptwriting competition has come to a close. Good luck to everyone who submitted, and be sure to keep an eye out for the competition again next fall! This show, it’s the little things that get to you. It’s all well and good to say “don’t sweat the small stuff” – until it’s the small stuff that causes the world to go sideways. It’s a theme of our two guest stories – ‘2298‘ by A.R. Olivieri, and another ‘Black JackRead More →

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