Featuring the Works of Edgar Allan Poe WRW celebrates our 10th Anniversary with “An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe!†The master works of the master of the macabre. Selections include “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “Hop-Frog,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee.” Classic radio adaptations, a [...]
A live radio re-creation of Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre of the Air’s first broadcast. Sponsored by McMenamins Theatres and Pubs The Willamette Radio Workshop presented a live re-creation of the Mercury Theatre of the Air‘s first radio broadcast, Dracula, by Bram Stoker adapted by Orson Welles. This was the latest installment in a series of [...]
Radio free frights Willamette Radio Workshop gets ready for some Halloween broadcasts of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” BY PAUL DUCHENE Issue date: 10/25/2002 The Tribune Orson Welles’ radio career is inextricably linked with “The War of the Worlds.” This 1938 production of the H.G. Wells sci-fi story caused widespread panic when its broadcast was thought to [...]