Either the Darkness alters" Or something in the sight Adjusts itself to Midnight . . . These and other lines from Emily Dickinson's poem, "We Grow Accustomed to the Dark," introduce a "Etche…
Fans of classic audio drama will be happy to learn that Sonic Summerstock Playhouse is here again in full swing! Whether one's interest lies in mystery, drama, or thrillers, there is somethi…
The 1648 victory of the "Roundhead" Puritan forces of Oliver Cromwell over the Cavaliers of King Charles I in England may seem an odd subject for an opera. Yet the event did command the atte…
The Sound of Swing Orchestra is a 1940s-style big band which faithfully recreates swing-era staples such as Jimmie Lunceford's "For Dancer's Only," Tommy Dorsey's "Opus One" and "Marie," and…
"The System of Doctor Goudron and Professor Plume" is the latest installment of the National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre on the Air. While modeled on Edgar Allan Poe's "The System of Doctor Tarr…
Multi-talented jazz vocalist and trombonist, Aubrey Logan, recently performed a fabulous, live-streaming concert, "The Standard Tour: Dreams," from Austin, Texas, her adopted hometown. It is…
Postmodern Jukebox (PMJ), founded and led by pianist Scott Bradlee, is a unique musical aggregation. It is a collection of largely young jazz musicians and vocalists who perform contemporary…
The Steve Cooper Orchestra offers a wonderful window into the American musical past, playing ballrooms in the Chicago area and also sharing their music on CD recordings. Mr. Cooper is especi…
"Please, this way," says Dr. Maillard, the rascally director of the mental institution in the latest National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre on the Air. "My next patient might seem quite… what is…
Brent Morris is a mathematician, scholar of Freemasonry, and Sherlock Holmes aficionado who lectures on "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" and cryptology at the heart of the famous Sherlock …
 The story of Hansel and Gretel is one of the most famous of Grimm's fairy tales. The story has had many iterations through the years, notably Engelbert Humperdinck's famous 1893 o…
In what it bills as its first film, Victorian Lyric Opera Company of Rockville, Maryland, has produced "A Gilbert and Sullivan Drawing Room." Directed by Erica Ferguson with cinematography b…
Flash Gordon, the "space opera" science fiction hero, has appeared in many media. Beginning with an artistically-aware comic strip by master comic strip artist Alex Raymond, Flash has appear…
The New Year's Concert from Vienna has become not only a tradition for residents and visitors to the Austrian capital, but also for millions of television viewers the world over. To bring th…
 "I beg you to call to mind the table covered with your last Christmas gifts…" Thus we read in E.T.A. Hoffmann's Christmas fantasy "The Nutcracker and the King of Mice." Since this sto…
We Happy Few is a small but dynamic theatrical company housed in the Washington, DC Capitol Hill neighborhood. Currently, they are producing dramatized audio versions of classic mysteries, b…
Located in South Chesterfield, Virginia, some twenty miles from Richmond, Swift Creek Mill Theatre is housed in a former grist mill dating back to 1663. Normally a venue for dinner and a…
The Baltimore-based National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre on the Air returns this month of December with Caroline Bennett's superb adaptation of Poe's story "Hop-Frog." As usual in this series, t…
 In anticipation of the holidays, PBS recently aired Roundabout Theatre Company's  production of "Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn" on its long-running Great Performances series. It is …
In both story and verse, Edgar Allan Poe tried to connect thoughts with sounds or, as he himself put it in "The Rationale of Verse," "the very germ of a thought seeking satisfaction in equal…
Cultural historian Martin Grams' annual October Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention in Maryland, with its film showings, radio recreations, and lectures on popular culture, was cancelled this …
  "Romantic poetry is a progressive universal poetry. Its mission is […to] fill and saturate the forms of art with sterling material of every kind, and inspire them with the vibrat…
In a series of Big Finish audio adventures of the legendary Time Lord "Doctor Who," classic theatre sometimes comes to the fore. So was it in "The Mask of Tragedy," which found the Doctor wi…
There was a time when home technology did not allow viewers to watch their favorite shows via DVD's, VHS cassettes, video streams, or even 8 or 16 mm film. Instead, one read "tie-in" novels …
Blackfriars Playhouse of the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia, has continued with its productions through the Coronavirus pandemic, streaming a complete playbill of its …