Listings for the '2002 Season'

Miracle on 34th Street

December 14th, 2002

A live radio re-creation of the original Lux Radio Theater broadcast of the film classic.
December 13th and 14th, 2002 the Willamette Radio Workshop returned to McMenamins Kennedy School to present an enduring classic of the Christmas season, a re-creation of the original Lux Radio Theater broadcast of Miracle on 34th Street. The original [...]

Dracula

October 31st, 2002

Dracula posterHalloween 2002
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 performances, started on Halloween, 2001 with the wildly successful War of the Worlds presented at CoHo Theatre to standing room audiences.

2002 found the WRW bringing the ultimate story of the supernatural to the [...]

Call of the Mummy

October 29th, 2002

by Cynthia J. McGean
Premiered On:
Tuesday, October 29th, 2002
KBOO 90.7 FM Portland, OR
Simulcast @ www.kboo.fm/index.php
Courtesy of Stage & Studio with Dmae Roberts and Emily Young

Thousands of years ago, a secret was buried deep beneath the sands of Egypt -
the secret of eternal youth. Now, Dr. Clyde Evans seeks to unearth that
secret. [...]

War of the Worlds

April 12th, 2002

The Willamette Radio Workshop in conjunction with CoHo Theatre presented Orson Welles’ production of H. G. Wells’ War of the Worlds The 1938 “Panic Broadcast” This was a live recreation of the original broadcast that shook a nation on the brink of war. The script, a loose adaptation of H. G. Welles SCI-FI classic [...]