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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.

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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.

The Importance of Being Earnest

WILLIAM SHATNER
THE OLDEST MAN TO GO INTO SPACE

BUT WE HAVE PROOF HE'S BEEN THERE BEFORE

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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 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



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