Arts Alive! podcast: Radio Theatre Project

Radio Theatre Project begins its fall season Monday (Oct. 28) at The Studio@620. Today’s guests on the Arts Alive! podcast are company director Bonnie Agan and playwright/performer and educator James Rayfield, a longtime contributor to the performance series.

Radio Theatre shows are performed live, in front of an audience, like old-time radio programs. Actors stand at a line of microphones and “become” the characters in three short plays – in the case of Monday’s marquee, they’re all Halloween-centric, of the funny-scary variety.

Unlike traditional old-school “theater of the mind,” however, these are not radio scripts from the 1940s or ‘50s, but contemporary works, written specifically for present-day radio theater.

Radio Theatre project shows at The Studio almost always sell out; it’s an audience that began as a seedling back in 2009, and has grown with each passing season.

According to Agan, many people come to watch “foley” man Matt Cowley produced each play’s myriad sound effects live, using various tools from his ever-handy table of goodies.

Tickets for Monday’s 7 p.m. performance will be available at the door. The Studio@620 website.

Click on the arrow to listen to the interview.