Midnight Radio, Episode 1

Thu, 06/03/2010 - 9:00pm
Fri, 06/04/2010 - 9:00pm
Sat, 06/05/2010 - 9:00pm

Our late-night summer smash hit series returns this June!

First Episode: June 3rd, 4th and 5th at 9pm!

Join us for the Happy Half Hour in our old time bath house lobby before every show at 8:30PM

Midnight Radio is a LIVE radio show complete with original radio plays, outrageous commercials, fake breaking news, vintage sound effects, marvelous musical guests and much, much more.

Mix one part SNL with one part Prairie Home Companion, add pinches of The Daily Show and Pee Wee’s Playhouse, and you’ve got Midnight Radio! 

Featuring the vocal stylings of: Tony Bingham, Gab Bonesso, Lisa Ann Goldsmith, and John Mcintire. Foley Sounds by Tami Dixon and Music by Sam McUmber. Directed by Jeffrey Carpenter. Special Guest Angela M. Vesco back with everybody’s favorite culinary show, Hey Hon Let’s Cook starring Aunt Mag.

Episode #1 writers include:

Ken Kaisser - Ken Kaissar’s adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s THE CANTERBURY TALES was commissioned by Columbia University and was premiered in 2008. His ten-minute play CEASEFIRE (written in response to Israel’s war with Hezbollah in 2006) was a winner in the West Boca Theatre Company Play Contest and a  regional winner in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.  His play THE VICTIMS OR WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO ABOUT IT was a runner-up for the 2009 Princess Grace Award.  His other plays include THE MAN STANLEY, NUDE STUDY and CREATIVITY (a past finalist in the Ashland New Plays Festival).  His directing work has also been seen in Pittsburgh, New York and Chicago.  He holds a BFA in directing from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University. 

Ray Bradbury - (born August 22, 1920) is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951), Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th and 21st century American writers of speculative fiction. Bradbury's popularity has been increased by more than 20 filmed dramatizations of his works.

On the occasion of his 80th birthday in August 2000, Bradbury said, "The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. The feeling I have every day is very much the same as it was when I was twelve. In any event, here I am, eighty years old, feeling no different, full of a great sense of joy, and glad for the long life that has been allowed me. I have good plans for the next ten or twenty years, and I hope you'll come along." 

BANDPressPhoto4-MS.jpgWith special musical guests Rob Collier of Small Cities. Learn more about them here www.myspace.com/smallcities Small Cities' first full-length album, Jackson Purchase, is scheduled to be released June 2010 and the band is currently rehearsing new material for a second album to be recorded later in the summer.

 

 

 

Tickets are $20. To purchase, please click the icon below.  Thursday June 3rd is Pay-What-You-Can night. To make reservations for Pay-What-You-Can-Night, please contact Tami at tami@webbricolage.org

Midnight Radio is sponsored in part by wyep-logo-color.jpgWYEP 91.3FM, CP logo for web.pngCity Paper and The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

If you missed last season or want to know more about Midnight Radio, click on the link below to check out a 30-minute excerpt from the best of last year's series in our:

Midnight Radio Special Edition Broadcast on WYEP 91.3 FM!
www.wyep.org/music/ondemand/audio_specials/

If you want to see Midnight Radio in action check us our at TEDx Pittsburgh: