Spunky MacLean and the Murder at the Rockford Theatre

Spunky Maclean in: “Murder at the Rockford Theatre”

Written and Directed by Sonny Bynum. Set in the mid-1950’s, it’s an original story of a soft-boiled Greenwich Village detective named Spunky. While on a routine trail of a few unscrupulous characters, he suddenly discovers a bizarre murder.

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THE CAST (in alphabetical order)

Shannon Atkinson - Fleurelle
Rich Baker - Dr. Hyrum Dickens, Officer Edwards, Zack Kelso, J.C. Guthries, Leonard Spivey, Ticket Seller, Annc 3
Kristina Denapolis - Rhonda Carlisle
Matt Ducey - Mr. Roberts, Luther Chesterton, Sailor, Bouncer
Desirée Fultz - Barbara Davies
Elliott Gilbert - Roger Edelsen, Julius Freeman, Red, Usher, Opera Man, Announcer 1
Rachel Golden - Darlene Lovejoy, Freddy, Scream
Peggy Bott-Kirby - Mama Rosette, Mamma Diana, Opera Woman
Jess Price - Officer Clemens, Dr. Preston, 'Sweet Bobby' Tyrell, Sylvester Underhill, Mario, Cabby, Announcer 2
Ken Raney - Sgt. William O'Doyle, Mr. Jackson, Enraged Patron
Holland Sanders - Darren, Jennifer Cromwell
Rodd Wayne - Spunky MacLean

THE CREW

Rich Frohlich - Creative Director and Executive Producer
Joshua Cox - Sound FX Chief and Sound Engineer
Brandon Brown - Musical Performance and Music Engineer
Sonny Bynum - Writer, Director and Conductor

Dragon Song

The Texas Radio Theatre Company in cooperation with the Arlington Museum of Art presents "Dragon Song" recorded in front of a studio audience on June 21st 2002.

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Written by D.B. Humphries and directed by Louann Chapman.

Featuring the voice talents of Connie Crow, Robert (Bob) Erickson, Kathi Funston, Elliott Gilbert, Stephanie Knapp, Christine, Bernadette Muegel, Bill Shelton, Rodd Wayne

Live sound effects by Libby Millron

Guitar and original Music performed by Kyle MacConnell

Dragon Song is a story about Mothers and Mothering. They give so much to birth-love and give much more when they let that love wing away. But many times during the intermediate - they look up to the sky in frustration and wail, "What did I do to deserve this?" Then, they look once more upon the little Dragons that caused the frustration and fall in love all over again.

That's the Magic of Mothers and... Dragon Song.

This play runs approximately 1 hour.

For Halloween - The Brazilian Cat

The Brazilian Cat

Adapted for audio by Jim Cort from a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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One of the many stories Doyle wrote outside his famous Sherlock Holmes works. It's a horror-adventure story that begins with a young man with aristocratic connections, but no money hoping to live with, and possibly fend off some creditors with the help of his wealthy first cousin, a man who has the curious hobby of collecting strange and dangerous exotic pets.

The short story is part of Doyle's "Tales of Terror and Mystery" collection.

Voice talents by David Grant, Kevin Nash, Dale Leena Evans, Larry Groebe and Gary Layton.
Music by Lucien Désar.
Directed and Mixed by Richard Frohlich


Recorded in studio July 2004, in cooperation with the Arlington Museum of Art

H.G. Wells' The Time Machine

The Texas Radio Theatre Company adapts H.G. Wells' classic story, where we travel to the year 100,080 and a world where beauty and terror live side-by-side. Suddenly the time machine, our only exit, is missing. Could the docile and weak inhabitants called Eloi be something other than what they appear, or is there something lurking in the shadows.

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This audio play was recorded at the Arlington Museum of Art on May 30th 2009 in front of a studio audience and includes the voice talents of Larry Groebe, Gary Layton, Tiffany Lonsdale-Hands, Ken Raney, Kelly Scott and Ric Spiegel.

Ken Raney provides the live sound effects and Richard Frohlich directs and engineers.

The play runs approximately 38 minutes.

Coming soon...

Son of Schlock!

Tales of Tomorrow Recreation

The Texas Radio Theatre Company recreates this lost ABC radio Tales of Tomorrow episode called "Syndrome Johnny" by Charles Dye about the world ravaged by pandemic after pandemic.

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This radio play was recorded at the Arlington Museum of Art on May 30th 2009 in front of a studio audience and includes the voice talents of Larry Groebe, Gary Layton, Tiffany Lonsdale-Hands, Ken Raney, Kelly Scott and Ric Spiegel.

Ken Raney provides the live sound effects and Richard Frohlich directs and engineers.

The play runs approximately 30 minutes.

Happy Birthday TRTC...

After reading on Audio Drama Talk that Decoder Ring Theatre just turned four, I looked back to when Texas Radio Theatre first performed.

I knew it was sometime in October 2001... but I had to look back through my hard drive records and I found out that we were officially 8 years old YESTERDAY.

On October 15, 2001 we performed our first play in front of an audience at a Barnes and Nobel in North Richland Hills, Texas in cooperation with the Tarrant Area Guild of Storytellers.


We performed "Domingo Siete" it was an enormous hit, and no recordings exist.

We performed our second show, and OTR recreation of War of the Worlds at a the "Someplace Else Pub" in Arlington Texas on October 31st

The second show had us feeling a bit like the Blues Brothers... because the bar we performed in was filled with folks waiting for us to get done, because we were encroaching on their karaoke time.

So although we had been working on scripts and gathering people for nearly a year prior... we first performed 8 years ago yesterday -

so... Happy Birthday to us!