We’ve been celebrating quite the Summer of Suspense – both in real life with the vagaries of the COVID pandemic, and in our imaginations with some fist-clenching stories of horror, mystery, and mayhem.  With Autumn on the horizon, we’ll continue that motif one more time, but with a local eye. Midnight Audio Theatre is produced in Columbus, Ohio.  This final jaunt into the genre kicks off with a series produced in the Columbus neighborhood, and it’s new to the show:  Distress Frequency.  This is a horror, sci-fi and adventure anthology series that harkens back to the Golden Age of Radio, yet with a modern flair.  Read More →

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Horror by itself terrifies enough – but combine it with another genre, and it completely engages your imagination. The proof:  Station to Station, an edge-of-your-seat series centering on Dr. Miranda Quan and the research ship Astrid.  On the eve of her ten-week research mission, she realizes something sinister lurks in the heart of her ship…and she must find answers as she unravels a deadly conspiracy, dodges dangerous threats, and fights to survive in the frigid waters of the North Pacific. We’ll hear the first two chapters in this episode:  “Standard Operating Procedure” and “Workplace Wellbeing.”  The series is produced by the Procyon Podcast Network. You’llRead More →

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We’re moving from fun fantasy to abject horror with this episode’s sole feature: Janus Descending, by No Such Thing Radio. Janus Descending follows the stories of Peter and Chel:  two xenoarchaeologists who launch an expedition to survey a small planet in a binary star system.  Their focus is on the remains of an alien civilization.  They soon realize that the monsters who destroyed that civilization still lurk in the ruins…and scientific discovery is fast forgotten as Peter and Chel find themselves in a game of cat-and-mouse, with their own lives in the balance. Jordan Cobb created and produced this high-suspense story; she also plays Chel. Read More →

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Fire up your auditory boilers:  it’s steampunk time! This episode of Midnight Audio Theatre marks the debut of an innovative, highly creative series in our fold:  The Tales of Sage and Savant.  The series busts storytelling convention in many ways; for example, our two heroes die at the end of every season…because that’s how they stay alive. Confused?  Not once you know the show’s delightfully deadly premise.  Dr. Petronella Sage conducts research at Kings College in reanimating dead tissue to advance the science of limb replacement.  She accidentally electrocutes herself during one of her experiments, separating her consciousness from her body.  Along with her dedicatedRead More →

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“We’ve pretty much biffed this one.”  That’s the reason humanity is searching for a new planet to terraform in the comedy science fiction series Oz 9.  And with the biffing of COVID and climate change still going strong as we post this installment of Midnight Audio Theatre, we could sure use an hour of laughs! Oz-9’s origins were in a simple audition tape, never meant to be heard by the general public.  Writer and producer Shannon Perry was just helping out her friend Tim (who plays Colin in the series) record material to round out his portfolio.  They started with some Sherlock Holmes readings, thenRead More →

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Everything is relative.  That includes literary genres.  For example, is space opera science fiction, or is it fantasy in a sci-fi setting? Our feature in this installment of Midnight Audio Theatre faces that relative classification conundrum.  You’ll hear the beginning of the sci fi series Relativity by Lee Shackleford…except it might really be a mystery.  Relativity is the story of a man marooned in space, and the woman hell-bent on rescuing him (albeit “by the book”).  The big mystery to be solved if he’s going to make it home:  how was his ship sabotaged, and why? This series is lovingly produced by Shackleford.  It’s trulyRead More →

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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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Click “play,” and enjoy an hour chock full of stories for your ears! We launch with a mystery for you in Episode 3 of Ask Answergirl: “A Whole Latte Cheating.” Dean Tukeva has suspicions about a statistics class where an overwhelming majority of students are getting an A. Can you break the curve and solve the case?  The series is produced by Chris Csont and Will Anderson at Central Michigan University.  To check out more of this series, visit cmich.edu and search for “Ask Answergirl”. After that mystery, we’ll continue listening in on a radio station broadcasting during the zombie apocalypse in Mercury: A Broadcast ofRead More →

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Hello audiodramaphiles and storytelling superstars! It’s November, which means its time for us to take a listen to stories about people – their behaviors, their interactions, and their relationships. We also have a cornucopia of stories for you each week this month, and this episode is no exception – four different audio stories to entertain your ears. To kick it all off, we’re starting with some fun radio-broadcast-style stories. In case you’ve missed it these past few weeks, Mercury: A Broadcast of Hope has been playing on MAT since October, but the full series is a daily audio drama podcast that has been broadcasting sinceRead More →

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