Despite the fact that when David Giovannini, the now-retired consultant who is considered the man most responsible (or blamed) for public radio's modern emphasis on news and talk programming, supposedly responded to a highbrow type asking "what is the proper time for radio drama?" by saying "1944," New York's big NPR station will be producing all ten of August Wilson's "American Century Cycle" of plays on African-Americans (his total career output) for radio starting next year, with the performances before a studio audience at the station's Greene Performance Space to be live streamed and archived over the station's web site (and presumably offered to other stations eventually):
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/new-york-public-radio-to-record-august-wilsons-plays/ Since "NPR Playhouse" gave up the ghost some years ago, the main outlet for new radio drama on public radio is the weekly star-studded program of LATheatreWorks, which is syndicated through the web-based Public Radio Exchange and heard in its hometown on KPCC. LATW records its shows in LA with studio audiences and in the 90s attempted to branch out to Chicago and Boston until they ran out of funding. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
