Radio Theater: From Its Roots to the Future

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
6:30 to 8:00 pm ET
New York

In Person

Anthony Rudel, Author, Hello, Everybody!: The Dawn of American Radio
Arthur Yorinks, Artistic Advisor, A New Theater of Sound, WNYC’s The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space
Performance by the yorinks theater group and Blue Wren Repertory (see below)
Moderator: David Brancaccio, Host, PBS's NOW

Radio pioneered the theater of the mind in its formative days and continues to innovate unique audio experiences in this new century. Tonight the Paley Center looks back and beyond with experts in both realms. Author Tony Rudel will show how early radio redefined our sense of theatricality in several different genres. Writer/director Arthur Yorinks, artistic advisor for the New Theater of Sound—a creative initiative of WNYC's new multiplatform, multipurpose performance studio The Greene Space, opening April 28—will discuss how radio theater has evolved into the 21st century. He will also provide a sneak preview of the experimental work that will be presented in The Greene Space, including Sax From A Marriage, an original audio play by Arthur Yorinks. The evening is sure to illuminate how aural drama has been intertwined with the art of radio.

The yorinks theater group and Blue Wren Repertory
present
SAX FROM A MARRIAGE
part one
 
an aural comedy written and directed by Arthur Yorinks
 
starring
Jenny Langsam
Lou Marini (on sax)
Steven Rattazzi
Rick Wald (on sax)

      

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