Another entry in our occasional series of important Plays as performed for Radio. This weekend it’s the 2014 Old Vic revival of Sophocles tragedy Electra, with Kristen Scott-Thomas in the title role and incidental Music for the play composed by PJ Harvey. It was first broadcast on March 8, 2015
Eva LaGallienne (L) – J.M. Barrie (R) – Legend of The Theatre – Creator of The Lost Boys J.M. Barrie – The Twelve Pound Look – NBC Radio New Theatre – September 23, 1951 Another of our periodic excursions to the Theatre for historic performances. This weekend it’s a play
– CBS World News Roundup + Newsbreak – December 31, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. As 1979 came to a close, the world was once again facing The Big Question Mark. The Soviets were setting up shop in Afghanistan, the United Nations was condemning the action with China leading
Armies Of the Unemployed – Descending on Capitol Hill American Forum of The Air – The WPA – June 25, 1939. By the summer of 1939, the future of the Works Progress Administration’s cultural programs had become a national controversy, debated not only in Congress but also on radio programs
(Top) Tom Stoppard – (Bottom) Tim Roth (r) – Gary Oldman (l) – 1990 Film Adaptation. With the sad news of the passing of playwright Tom Stoppard, one more vestige in the creative revolution that pretty much started in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s is gone. From a
For all the bizarre situations in even more bizarre Musicals for the Broadway stage, with the possible exception of Franz Kafka, a musical based on a series of short stories about a love affair between a cat and a cockroach might bend the roles of credulity well past the point
– NBC Radio – Life And The World – Chicago – Frank Lloyd Wright – Carl Sandberg -Oct. 30, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – I ran across this interview with Poet Carl Sandberg and Architect Frank Lloyd Wright giving their impressions of living in Chicago from October of
– NBC Radio – New World – Discussing George Bernard Shaw – July 29, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – George Bernard Shaw – Irish Playwright, critic, activist, economist, essayist, novelist, was born on this day, July 26, 1856 in Dublin. He was co-founder of the London School of
– International Literary Report – Interview with Garson Kanin – August 11, 1977 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – I ran across this interview with the legendary screenwriter, playwright, novelist and Director Garson Kanin discussing his career and the publishing of his then-new book (in 1977), One Hell Of An
Become a Patron! NBC Radio – Biography In Sound – The Actor – March 6, 1955 – The Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Although this documentary concentrates primarily at Acting for the Stage in 1955, the sentiments and reflections on the craft spill easily over into film, as was evidenced
