A variety of dramatic and comedic audio programs in the style of old-time radio but adapted for today’s audiences, featuring compelling, fun stories and great performers.
Produced in association with Players of Utica’s Players Radio Theatre.
THE CORPORATION MURDERS
Private detective Sam Spade investigates the murder of a stockbroker and his wife. Who’s the murderer? The greedy goons… the ex-wife… the cop… the co-worker? Sam Spade is on the case!
Dashiel Hammett’s Sam Spade in “The Corporation Murders” by Bob Tallman and Gill Dowd. Adapted for Players Radio Theatre by Hanover Archibald. Featuring Steven J. Handzel, Samantha Vail, Max Lucia, Stephen Wagner, Zach Handzel, Lonnie Etter, Taylor Marie Staskowski, Richard K. Stoodley, David J. Plescia, and Ryan Seelbach.[Mystery]
MUSIC: “Dangerous Swing” by Blue Dot Sessions; “Piano Bar” by Lite Saturation; “Shady” by Audiorezout; “Neon on the Window” by Playersofutica13 (SUNO)
Bonus Track: “Neon on the Window (Lela’s Theme)”
WEREWOLF IN HOLLYWOOD
Washed-up actor Lamont Carey III, known for his role as The Werewolf, might actually have become the monster!
Written by Steven J. Handzel. Featuring Danielle Priore, Lonnie Etter, Steven J. Handzel, Zach Handzel, and Stephen Wagner. [Comedy/Mystery]
A MATTER OF HUSBANDS
A worried wife confronts a glamorous actress she believes has stolen her husband—only to discover a secret behind the “affair”!
Written by Ferenc Molnar. Featuring Joni DePerno-Zahas and Danielle Priore. [Comedy]
FOURTEEN or THE MOST SUCCESSFUL OF HOSTESSES
A society hostess’s perfectly planned dinner party unravels as unexpected cancellations and new guests force her to constantly rearrange the seating.
Written by Alice Gerstenbert. Featuring Marilee Ensign, Jason Francey, and Valerie Able. [Comedy]
THE BEGGAR AND THE KING
A ragged beggar stands outside the palace shouting for bread, and the furious king tries every possible method to silence him— commands, threats, even magical solutions. Nothing works.
Written by Winthrop Parkhurst. Featuring James Gifford, Wayne Siefried, and Mike D. Burke. [Comedy]
THE TIME MACHINE
A scientist creates a machine with which he travels to the distant future seeking a world without war. What he finds is a strange, fragmented society of sheepish people ruled by beasts.
Adapted from the H.G. Wells story by Steven J. Handzel. Featuring Steven Handzel, Zachary Handzel, and Leanne Handzel. [Drama / Science Fiction]
A PRIORI (OR) CATHEDRAL
A blind widower named Robert visits Piazza and her insecure, insensitive husband Priori, whose jealousy and prejudice strain the evening until an honest late-night conversation begins to break down his defenses.
Written by Nicholas Priore and produced in association with The Theatre of the Great Puppeteer. Featuring Mike Beehm, Danielle Priore, and Stephen Wagner. [Drama]
THE BOOR
A grieving widow, Popova, vows eternal loyalty to her late husband—until the blustery, hot‑tempered creditor, Smirnov, barges in demanding repayment of a debt.
Written by Anton Chekhov. Featuring James Davall, Hana Meyers, and Stephen Wagner. [Comedy]
THE DWELLERS IN THE DARKNESS
Unseen forces lurk just beyond human perception. The story follows characters who slowly realize that something ancient and malevolent lives in the shadows—watching, waiting, and influencing events from the dark.
Featuring Marilee Ensign, Michael O’Brien, Carrie Bostick, Steven Handzel, Eric Almleaf, and Stephen Wagner. [Drama / Horror]
THE NOBLE LORD
A pompous aristocrat is forced into an uncomfortable—and very funny—reckoning with his own hypocrisy, exposing his vanity, insecurity, and pretensions.
Written by Percival Wilde. Featuring Joseph Scott, Sarah Crill, and Stephen Wagner. [Comedy]
THE PATHETIC FALLACY
A man creates a computer that has developed a remarkable artificial intelligence… and perhaps even feelings for its maker.
Written by Wyllis Cooper. Featuring Dave Dellecese, Kathy Leers, Art Felshaw, and Jessica Kaczor. [Comedy]
SHERLOCK HOLMES – THE TOLLING BELL
Holmes and Watson investigate a series of strange events centered around a church bell that tolls at impossible times and seems to signal death.
Featuring Richard K. Stoodley, Mike Beehm, Hana Meyers, Denise Morganti, Stephen Wagner, and Linda LaPorte-Stoodley. [Mystery]
THE PROPOSAL
Two stubborn neighbors’ attempt at a marriage proposal spirals into absurd arguments over petty land rights, hunting dogs, and pride. What should be a simple engagement turns into a comic battle of wills.
Written by Anton Chekhov. Featuring James Davall, Hana Meyers, and Stephen Wagner. [Comedy]
THREE SIDES TO A STORY
An eerie, first‑person narrative in which a storyteller reveals an unsettling chain of events from multiple perspectives, each “side” reshaping the listener’s understanding of what truly happened.
Written by Wyllis Cooper. Featuring Catherine Gudeidas, Jim Revenaugh, and Michael O’Brien. [Drama]
HE SAID AND SHE SAID
A seemingly harmless bit of gossip ignites suspicion and jealousy among friends during an afternoon visit. As accusations swirl, the truth becomes harder to find than the rumors that replaced it.
Written by Alice Gerstenberg. Featuring Kelly Motyl, Lonnie Etter, Sarah Spiway, and Denise Morganti. [Comedy]
THE RECKONING
A somewhat ordinary man is confronted by someone from his past—someone who knows the truth about a murder he thought he had gotten away with.
Written by Percival Wilde. Featuring Joe Schmidt and Richard K. Stoodley. [Comedy / Suspense]
THE LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY
A blocked mystery writer struggles to figure out how his villain could commit a murder in a sealed room. Then a strange man appears and eerily helps him act out the scene, as fiction and reality begin to merge.
Written by Wyllis Cooper. Featuring Mike D. Burke, Richard K. Stoodley, Shelby Deere, and Michael O’Brien. [Mystery / Suspense]
THE NEW ACCELERATOR
A scientist invents a drug that lets him move far faster than everyone else. After he uses it for crime and power, his friend must stop him.
Adapted from the H. G. Wells story by Eamon Handzel and Steven J. Handzel. Featuring Adam Kaczor, Zachary Handzel, Leanne Handzel, Max Lucia, Eamon Handzel, and Hanover Archibald. [Drama / Science Fiction]
OTHER PEOPLE’S DREAMS
A man becomes entangled in the dreams of strangers—visions that begin as harmless glimpses but quickly turn ominous as the dreams grow more vivid and more connected to real‑world danger.
Written by Jim Cort. Featuring Suzanne Rodio, James Reed, Joe Schmidt, Pat Stone, and Mark Hanna. [Drama / Science Fiction]
LAUGHING MAN
The setting is a padded cell . . . and inside the mind of . . . the laughing man.
Written by Nicholas Priore and produced in association with The Theatre of the Great Puppeteer. Featuring Raymond Corrado Knutsen. [Drama]
THE VIRUS
A scientist creates an enlarging machine that produces a giant virus cell… and it escapes its holding tank. Yikes!
Written by Wyllis Cooper. Featuring Jim Revenaugh, Deb Martin, Mark Hanna, and Art Felshaw. [Drama / Science Fiction]
THE VISITOR
A mysterious outsider arrives in a small town, triggering a chain of reactions that exposes the community’s buried prejudices and uneasy conscience.
Based on the novel by Carl Randau and Leane Zugsmithby. Featuring Mike Beehm, Stephen Wagner, Jeff Hartz, Marilee Ensign, Ally Priore, Andy Metz, Sarah Crill, and Denise Morganti. [Drama]
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