NPR Playhouse
NPR Playhouse was a series of radio dramas from National Public Radio. The series was a successor to the NPR series Earplay and was discontinued in September 2002.
Beginning on March 1, 1981,[1] the Playhouse production of the first of the Star Wars radio dramas, a 13-part 6½-hour version of the original Star Wars film, generated the largest response in NPR's history, with an audience averaging over 750,000 listeners per episode. A 14th episode was produced for this series consisting of an audio documentary of the production. The series author, Brian Daley, also wrote the script to the audio drama "Rebel Mission to Ord Mantell", which precedes The Empire Strikes Back and succeeds Star Wars: A New Hope.[2][3]
In 1985 producer/director Roger Rittner produced the acclaimed Adventures of Doc Savage series for NPR Playhouse. The 13-episode series consisted of serialized versions of two of Lester Dent's Doc Savage pulp novels.
Among the broadcasts in its final season were the science fiction/fantasy anthology 2000X, the Radio Tales series of dramatizations of classic literature and mythology, and the Los Angeles-based Open Stage.
The dramatic-reading series Selected Shorts continued as the only national program devoted to regular offerings of radio drama, leaving aside the sketches on A Prairie Home Companion and Le Show and the intermittent presentation of drama on the largely documentary series The Next Big Thing.
The series aired selected productions from the CBC horror-anthology series Nightfall in the early 1980s.
External links
- Chekhov On The Air -- Russian Master's Work Done For Radio Article from The Seattle Times about the Globe Radio Repertory production of "16 Stories by Anton Chekhov" for NPR Playhouse.
- NPR Playhouse January - March, 2001 Programs. from a copy of NPR Playhouse web page of January 2001 saved by Jerry Stearns.
- NPR Playhouse October 1, 2002 - R.I.P., from Great Northern Audio, a production company which produced some episodes for NPR Playhouse.
- Collection of NPR Playhouse Broadcasts via Internet Archive
References
- ^ Bill Carter. "You Might Try PBS for those Post-Sweep Blues." Baltimore Sun, February 26, 1981, p. 24.
- ^ Robb, Brian J. (2012). A Brief Guide to Star Wars. London: Hachette. ISBN 9781780335834. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
- ^ John, Derek. "That Time NPR Turned 'Star Wars' Into A Radio Drama — And It Actually Worked". NPR.org. All Things Considered, National Public Radio. Archived from the original on 20 June 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
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