THEATRICAL PLAYS PERFORMED LIVE
IN THE STYLE OF RADIO IN FRONT OF A THEATRE AUDIENCE
Since 1984 the California Artists Radio Theatre has presented the best
in dramas, comedies, and musicals, featuring renowned actors from Hollywood,
Broadway, Great Britain, and Ireland, performing award-winning scripts
adapted from modern and classic stories, books, and plays.
A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
Jeanette Nolan is the Lady Bracknell one dreams of when reading Widle’s favorite play. She is the quinticential 1880’s obnoxious but uniquely charming British Socialite, with a genius for light, unanticipated comedy banter with her nephew and with Earnest is fast. Her illogic keeps everyone on guard.
Les Tremayne, a British stage star who became famous as the leading man of radio’s "First Nighter” series, and appeared on thirty six thousand lead roles for other top American network shows.
Other cast standouts are Kathleen Freeman as Earnest’s Nanny.
Linda Henning and Bairbre Dowling offer more delicious feminine inanity. Sean McClory plays two butlers as only a brave Abbey Theatre man might attempt. Richard Erdman is fast and clipped as the foil for all, and disappoints his Aunt Augusta by not serving her favorite cucumber sandwiches at tea.
Dan O'Herlihy is the host and John Harlan announces.
Les Tremayne, a British stage star who became famous as the leading man of radio’s "First Nighter” series, and appeared on thirty six thousand lead roles for other top American network shows.
Other cast standouts are Kathleen Freeman as Earnest’s Nanny.
Linda Henning and Bairbre Dowling offer more delicious feminine inanity. Sean McClory plays two butlers as only a brave Abbey Theatre man might attempt. Richard Erdman is fast and clipped as the foil for all, and disappoints his Aunt Augusta by not serving her favorite cucumber sandwiches at tea.
Dan O'Herlihy is the host and John Harlan announces.
WILLIAM SHATNER
THE OLDEST MAN TO GO INTO SPACE
BUT WE HAVE PROOF HE'S BEEN THERE BEFORE
A fantastical adaptation of Moby Dick, Ray Bradbury takes audiences past the moon and the stars
in search of the greatest and brightest comet in the universe. Join a deranged captain,
an eight-foot-tall telepathic spider, and our reluctant hero. You can call him Ishmael.
in search of the greatest and brightest comet in the universe. Join a deranged captain,
an eight-foot-tall telepathic spider, and our reluctant hero. You can call him Ishmael.
LEVIATHAN 99 by Ray Bradbury STARRING
SEAN ASTIN as Ishmael Honeycut Jones WILLIAM SHATNER as Astronaut Krell (The Spider) NORMAN LLOYD as The Cesus 7's Captain SAMANTHA EGGAR as The Rachel's Captain RICHARD HERD as First Mate John Redding WALTER KOENIG as Father Colworth and Jim Dunns HM WYNANT as Elisha and The Lightfoam's Captain SKY McDOUGALL as Sam Smoll BOB LEGIONAIRE as Plato and Will Dodson CART's Announcer, JOHN HARLAN Introduction by Ray Bradbury Adapted. Directed & Produced by Peggy Webber Consulting Director: Norman Corwin Music by Ken Strange Sound Effects by Tony Palermo |
Other Ray Bradbury Plays
FIVE TRIBUTE PLAYS
Featuring Tales From: THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES STARRING DAVID WARNER SAMANTHA EGGAR RICHARD ERDMAN DANDELION WINE STARRING WILLIAM WINDOM PARLEY BAER KATHLEEN FREEMAN BILLY IDELSON THE PEDESTRIAN STARRING NORMAN LLOYD ELLIOTT REID THE ILLUSRATED MAN STARRING ROD STEIGER DAVID WARNER DEATH IS A LOVELY BUSINESS STARRING STAN FREBERG CHARLOTTE RAE SHELLEY LONG WITH RETROSPECTIVES BY CHARLES CHAMPLIN STAN FREBERG NORMAN LLOYD RAY BRADBURY |
FIVE TRIBUTE PLAYS
THE SILENT TOWNS STARRING WILLIAM WINDOM KATHLKEEN FREEMAN THE SAILOR HOME FROM THE SEA STARRING RENEE AUBERJOINOIS SHELLY LONG MARTY MAGUIRE THE RAVINE STARRING SHELLY LONG JO ANNE WORLEY LINDA HENNING WILLIAM WINDOM RICHARD ERDMAN MARTY MAGUIRE BOB LEGIONAIRE WE ARE THE DREAMERS OF DREAMS STARRING SAMANTHA EGGAR THE ANTHEM SPRINTERS STARRING RENEE AUBERJONOIS SHAY DUFFIN ROBERT ROCKWELL MARTY MAGUIRE LIAM TWOHIG WILLIAM WINDOM RICHARD ERDMAN BOBBY BALL With Retrospecitves by LEONARD MALTIN OLIVIA TRACY JO ANNE WORLEY |
Any Friend of
Nicholas Nickleby's is a Friend of Mine The arrival in a small town of a stranger who calls himself 'Charles Dickens' makes a magical and lasting change in the lives of an imaginative 12-year-old boy and a loving young woman. Starring: David Ogden Stiers William Windom Nancy Cartwright Elizabeth Dennehy Jeanette Nolan Ray Bradbury Elliott Reid |