Monday Matinee

Project Audion's 10th episode recreates one the best episodes from the award-winning 1950s science fiction series "X Minus One" using a cross-country Zoom conference and a cast of both Audion veterans and first-timers: Announcer: Trevor Rines in Canada Narrator: Kim Titus in Texas Guy Burkhardt: Lothar Tuppan in California Mary Burkhardt: Rachel Pulliam in Missouri Henry Swanson: Duane Noch in New Jersey Dorchin: John Bell in Alabama April Horn: M J Cogburn in Texas with sound effects by Key Raney in Texas, and production and direction by Larry Groebe In "The Tunnel Under the World," based on a story...

The latest performance by Chicago's Northside/Southside Radio Players is "The Man From Lot Two": a zany musical comedy adapted for audio theater from a 1966 script originally penned by authors Bob Connelly and Raymon Bruce, who worked in Hollywood on the crews of hit TV shows. Our story features Douglas Bryan Bean as a "movie nut" with a chameleon like ability to change his appearance at will and add to his "secret filmography" by blending in with the cast of a network TV pilot episode. Additional cast members are Nick Palumbo, Tom Gollagly, David Drazin (also composer/musician), Joe...

To kick off this inaugural week of Season 19 of the Sonic Society, hosts Jack and David have a special feature of The Crossing Guard Tapes by Jim Waters with Tape 1 Side A and B and Side A of Tape two...  Hit play!

Federal Stonecipher returns this week for the last days of summer with Sonic Society #782, Northside/Southside Radio Players: The Man From Lot Two, and Project Audion #10!

Project Audion premieres our recreation of the classic supernatural radio show "Lights Out" - a 1943 episode entitled "Little Old Lady." It's a ghostly story written and directed by the master of spooky stories, Arch Oboler. It's a tale truly made for radio, where you close your eyes and let your imagination run wild. Except this time, keep your eyes open and watch the voice actors do their stuff. Our transcontinental cast, hooked together via Zoom, includes Angela Young; Kristin James; Denise Cline; Brad Oxnam; Larry Groebe; and John Mauldin of the Inexplicable Dumb Show in Tennessee. We hope you'll...

Welcome back to our final episode of No Soap Radio- for now- on Monday Matinee! This week  Jack Benny returns with "Hello Louella"!

In our Season 18 finale, Jack and David think over the year and provide a double helping of MIDST! Three mischievous narrators spin a surreal, reality-bending, sci-fantasy space western about a crotchety outlaw, a struggling cultist, and a diabolical bastard making awful decisions in a world on the edge of disaster. This season finale "Unrise" and "Secrets"! Once more, it's Audio Drama Time!

Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee in this August week with Sonic Society #781, No Soap Radio: Jack Benny- Hello Louella, and Project Audion #9- Lights Out!

Project Audion’s newest cross-country OTR recreation is an episode of the police drama "The Lineup" which hasn't been heard since it was originally broadcast in January 1952. The Lineup was added to the CBS radio schedule after Dragnet became a massive hit, and ran for four years on radio, plus six years on television and a 1958 movie. The lead cop role (which was portrayed in 1952 by Bill Johnstone, who was a former "Shadow" and “Whistler”) is here played by Ed Dennis, an actual law enforcement officer for four decades. He even used his own handcuffs in the show's final scene...

Our 11th NO SOAP RADIO production created in April, 2025. This is a recreation of The X MINUS ONE radio episode..."THE PARADE". This episode introduces two new actors to the No Soap family…Andy
Hartson-Bowyer and Pete Lutz (Narada Radio Group). The show was produced, directed and edited by Paul Kovit. If you’d like to see a video version of this show checkout our website: https://nosoapradioplayers.com/
While there you can access our other productions as well as info about our group. And if you like our videos feel free to hit the subscribe button on Y...

This week Jack and David take a long three episode ride with Paradise Cab: A Paranormal Mystery! We feature episodes 1-3 with "The Tourist", "Follow that Cab" and "Keep the Change"!
Cab driver Joe is sent to pick up a new fare each week, by Angie, Paradise Cab’s dispatcher, who seems to know a little more about things than seems natural. It's Audio Drama Time!

Come in from the heat! Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee with Sonic Society #780, No Soap Radio: X-Minus One: The Parade, and Project Audion #8: "The Lineup"!

Project Audion presents our recreation of an episode of Screen Guild Theatre, AKA Hollywood Soundstage. "The Ox-Bow Incident" was a best-selling book in 1940, a blockbuster Western movie in 1943, and adapted for the Screen Guild Theatre radio show no less than three times. Our version is from 1952. It's a story of vengeance and violence -- a gritty look at a group of men who turned into a mob. The "Ox-Bow Incident" was directed by Pete Lutz / Corpus Christi, Texas and produced by Larry Groebe / Grapevine, Texas, and used a coast-to-coast cast of a 14 people situated from Nova Scotia to San...

Our 3rd NO SOAP RADIO production created in September, 2022. This is a recreation of the 1938 episode of The Shadow entitled "The Silent Avenger” and was our first attempt at something besides comedy. If you’d like to see a video version of this show checkout our website: https://nosoapradioplayers.com/
While there you can access our other productions as well as info about our group. And if you like our videos feel free to hit the subscribe button on Youtube so you can be alerted as soon as we release another production.

This week Jack and David' are back with a packed double feature including the second episode of "Cry Havok- Ask Questions Later" with "A Special Relationship" and we return with a Mutual favourite, Courtney Holloway's amazing "Agonal Dreams Chapter 11- "Finding Ishq" The survivors work together to celebrate their first milestone since civilization ended. Jenny puts aside her zealousness to create a beautiful ceremony. Kat experiences another vision that reveals what really happened to her father Rogelio. It's Audio Drama Time!

Federal Stonecipher brings in August with the Matinee! This week we have Sonic Society #779, No Soap Radio: The Shadow: The Silent Avenger and Project Audion Episode 7: "The Ox-Bow Incident"!

In this Project Audion broadcast, we recreate a lost 1953 episode of "On Stage" originally produced by and starring the husband and wife team of Cathy and Elliott Lewis. "On Stage" was an anthology with an emphasis on the relationships between men and women, allowing for everything from drama to comedy to romance. It may not be familiar to many people, but "On Stage" is well worth listening to. This episode, "A Month of Sundays," originally aired in August 1953 but no recording survives. Patte Rosebank plays the Cathy Lewis role from in Toronto Canada. She also directed. Tim Burns plays...

Our 9th NO SOAP RADIO production created in September, 2024. This is a recreation of "The Shadow radio episode..."The Long Arm of Death". The original broadcast took place on November 7, 1954. There is no surviving recording of the original broadcast so this your chance to hear what it might have sounded like back in the day. If you’d like to see a video version of this show checkout our website: https://nosoapradioplayers.com/ While there you can access our other productions as well as info about our group. And if you like our videos feel free to hit the su...

This week Jack and David's feature "Cry Havoc! Ask Questions Later" which takes place two years after Julius Caesar failed to beware the Ides of March and got stabbed to death by a band of well-wishers. Now the assassins have been rounded up and slaughtered in battle, so we can all breathe a sigh of relief. But who’s in charge now? 
With things on the verge of absolute collapse, the cool and calculating Cleopatra, the Queen of the Nile, has swung by for an extended visit. She’s eager to renew an alliance with Rome by any means...

Federal Stonecipher opens up the Matinee for the last week in July with Sonic Society #778, No Soap Radio: The Shadow: The Long Arm of Death, and Project Audion #6 with "On Stage"!

Project Audion presents a recreation of the classic Lucille Ball sitcom "My Favorite Husband" with an episode from September 24, 1948. If you're not familiar with the show, it's the direct ancestor to "I Love Lucy," with many of the same situations and comedy - and when you're talking about Lucy, how much more do you need to say? "My Favorite Husband" was about "two people who live together and like it!" , and we feature THREE real-life couples sharing mikes from different locations in the US -- Denise & Norman Cline, Jannette & Ed Dennis, and Fern & Barry Katz, supported by Larry Groebe...

Our 6th NO SOAP RADIO production created in September, 2023. This is a recreation of the 1955 Suspense program - "The Whole Town's Sleeping". In this production we combined a bit of the music from the original broadcast with recreations of the original music in GarageBand. It ended up working very well.
If you’d like to see a video version of this show checkout our website: https://nosoapradioplayers.com/
While there you can access our other productions as well as info about our group. In this show our production values took a leap forward. This was our first ti...

This week Jack and David's feature "Jackie the Ripper" where the infamous Whitechapel murders are retold in a serialised comedy-drama! We begin with "Chapter 1: Cock and Balls Story" and "Chapter 2: Leaving Her Mark"!

Federal Stonecipher opens up the Matinee for another amazing week in Mutual! This week it's Sonic Society #777, No Soap Radio: The Whole Town's Sleeping, and Project Audion #5: My Favorite Husband!

Project Audion presents a recreation of the vintage radio show Gunsmoke. Gunsmoke, one of the classic "adult Westerns", had a ten-year run on radio and an astounding 20+ years on television. This early episode, "The Guitar", originally aired December 26, 1953 and was later remade on both the television and radio series. A simple man with an unexpected talent is taunted by town bullies, with tragic results. Project Audion is a collaboration of radio theatre actors from across North America recording OTR shows live via Zoom. This Audion episode features the talents of Dennis Thompson in Colorado, Doug Fain in Kentucky, Paul...

Our 5th NO SOAP RADIO production created in April, 2023. This is a recreation of the 1949 Our Miss Brooks program starring Eve Arden - "Student Government Day". If you’d like to see a video version of this show checkout our website: https://nosoapradioplayers.com/ While there you can access our other productions as well as info about our group. And if you like our videos feel free to hit the subscribe button on
Youtube so you can be alerted as soon as we release another production.

This week Jack and David's feature 7 Lamb Productions and "Paralyzed". This audio drama follows David, a chronic sufferer of sleep paralysis on his annual camping trip with friends. But something evil from his dreams awaits with Chapter 1: Restless Nights Part 1 and 2!

Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee up early to start this week's features beginning with Sonic Society #776, No Soap Radio: Our Miss Brooks, and Project Audion Episode 4: Gunsmoke/The Guitar!

Transcribed live from California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennesee, and Texas... Project Audion presents a recreation of the 1937 Columbia Workshop broadcast of "R.U.R: Rossum's Universal Robots." Pete Lutz of Narada Radio Players, director of this radio drama, says this about his choice of show: "I love the historical sense of the story. Here's Carel Kapek, in 1920 or 21, foreseeing AI, prophesying humans' dependence on technology. Of course, robots themselves, thank the gods, haven't been perfected to the same extent. But there are so many wonderful elements in the story: all the men on the island are in love...

Our 12th NO SOAP RADIO production created in September, 2025. This is a recreation of YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR "THE SEA LEGS MATTER". This is Part 5 of the five part series. The original broadcast took place on August 3rd, 1956. This show was produced, directed and edited by Paul Kovit. Special thanks to John Bell for his superb Bob Bailey-inspired performance as Johnny Dollar. If you’d like to see a video version of this show checkout our website: https://nosoapradioplayers.com/ While there you can access our other productions as well as info about our group. And if you like ou...

This week Jack and David's feature rated best podcast from the Audies! It's "The Imperfection". Charlie and Amber suffer from a disorder that causes a constant stream of hallucinations. When they discover that their psychiatrist is missing, they rally together with the other patients to search for him. Along the way, they encounter secret societies, half-human half-spider centaurs, and a hidden borough of New York under the East River. But how can you find the truth when you can’t tell what’s real? This week episodes 1 and 2 with "The Three Trials" and "If Your Psychiatrist Has Gone Missing"

Federal Stonecipher opens up the Matinee in July with Sonic Society #775, No Soap Radio: Johnny Dollar- Sea Legs- Part 5, and Project Audion #3!

As part of Project Audion, voice actors from Canada, Illinois, Kansas, Florida, and Texas perform live together in a recreation of a classic Arch Oboler radio drama from 1945. A Note from the Director... This play is timeless and terrifyingly timely, with its story of Hollywood elites completely out of touch with the suffering of ordinary people. Arch Oboler wrote it in 1941, after he and his wife attended a dinner party at the home of a Hollywood bigwig, along with other bigwigs. The after-dinner conversation was about World War II, which was devastating the world, but the bigwigs only cared...

Our 12th NO SOAP RADIO production created in September, 2025. This is a recreation of YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR "THE SEA LEGS MATTER". This is Part 4 of the five part series. The original broadcast took place on August 2nd, 1956. This show was produced, directed and edited by Paul Kovit. Besides the usual No Soap players this episode’s cast includes your very own Pete Lutz of Moonlight Audio Theater and Narada Radio Theater. If you’d like to see a video version of this show checkout our website: https://nosoapradioplayers.com/ While there you can access our other productions as well...

This week Jack and David are look at the award-winning "The Offensive". An award-winning, critically acclaimed mockumentary podcast that follows fictional Premier League club Ashwood City FC. This week episodes 1 and 2 with "Deadline Day" and "The Biter from the Balkans".

Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee on the week of Canada Day and Independence Day! This patriotic week we have Sonic Society #774, No Soap Radio: Johnny Dollar: Sea Legs Part 4, and Project Audion #2!

Six different radio theatre companies from across North America have come together to perform vintage radio dramas via videoconference. In this edition, Listen and watch episodes of the mystery show "suspense" performed in the old style with live actors and sound effects, performing together from different cities across North America. In our cast: Patte Rosebank / Toronto Radio Theatre, Toronto Canada Larry Groebe / Generic Radio Workshop, Dallas Texas Doug Fain / KCAL Old Time Radio Troupe, Nicholasville Kentucky Denny Thompson / Advent Radio Players, Westminster Colorado Dick Huitema / Seniors Acting Up, Fort Lauderdale Florida Pete Lutz / Narada Radio Company, Corpus Christi Texas 

Our 12th NO SOAP RADIO production created in September, 2025. This is a recreation of YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR "THE SEA LEGS MATTER". This is Part 3 of the five part series. The original broadcast took place on August 1st, 1956. This show was produced, directed and edited by Paul Kovit. If you’d like to see a video version of this show checkout our website: https://nosoapradioplayers.com/ While there you can access our other productions as well as info about our group. And if you like our videos feel free to hit the subscribe button on Youtube so you can be...

This week Jack and David are headed "To Space.. but further!" with Voyage to the Stars. Space: It’s big. Like, really big. These are the misadventures of a group of misfits that accidentally found themselves on the wrong side of a wormhole, trying not to blow up the galaxy in their attempts to make the long journey home. Join us on a voyage to the stars with the wholly unqualified Captain Tucker Lentz (Colton Dunn), scatterbrained scientist Elsa Rankfort (Felicia Day), apathetic technician Stew Merkel (Steve Berg) and the misanthropic A.I. Sorry (Janet Varney). The universe will ne...

Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee on the last week of school with Sonic Society #773- Star Search, No Soap Radio: Johnny Dollar: Sea Legs- Part 3, and Project Audion Episode 1: Suspense!