Theatre Guild On The Air
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
← Broadway on the Air
1945–1953 · ABC, then NBC
Theatre Guild on the Air
Broadway's own company, restaged for the microphone
The Theatre Guild had spent twenty-five years putting O'Neill and Shaw on Broadway before it agreed to put them on radio, and it insisted on doing the job properly: its own producers, its own repertoire, and wherever possible the actors who had created the parts on stage. What resulted is the closest thing American radio has to a recording of the mid-century Broadway company at work. The catch, and it is worth saying plainly, is that these are studio remounts rather than transmissions from a theatre. The house you hear is a radio audience in a broadcast studio. But the performances are the stage performances, cut to fit fifty-two minutes and a steel company's commercials.
23 broadcasts · 7 seasons held · Belasco Theatre, New York
19454
Theatre Guild On The Air
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Theatre Guild On The Air
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Theatre Guild On The Air
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
194611
Theatre Guild On The Air
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Theatre Guild On The Air
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Theatre Guild On The Air
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Theatre Guild On The Air
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Theatre Guild On The Air
The one everybody argues about.
Theatre Guild On The Air
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Theatre Guild On The Air
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Theatre Guild On The Air
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Theatre Guild On The Air
The one everybody argues about.
Theatre Guild On The Air
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Theatre Guild On The Air
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
19473
Theatre Guild On The Air
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Theatre Guild On The Air
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Theatre Guild On The Air
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
19481
Theatre Guild On The Air
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
19501
Theatre Guild On The Air
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
19512
Theatre Guild On The Air
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Theatre Guild On The Air
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
19521
Theatre Guild On The Air
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.