American Radio Theater

United Planets cruiser is on a special mission to the gourth planet of the great main sequence star to check on a lost space rocket.  They find Mobius and his daughter Alta the only survivors, amidst the ancient Krell  civilization reliques.

Arnold Harrington's publisher takes matters into his own hands err pen when he wants to correspond with one of Harrington's fans.

Joan's father's proposal to Suzanne Fletcher gets accidentally mailed.  Suzanne is clearly a gold digger and everyone works at getting this annulled before the wedding.

This show is an extreme spoof of a certain form of British comedy.  It's campy, it's creepy and if done right it's hilarious.

Candy gets Rembrandt to substitute for Santa's helper, Jack Frost, as she searches for the murderer of the real one.

Dagwood imagines Dithers as Scrooge.

Two chapters from Joy Jackson's Book of Tir.  Bayadire Donaire takes a troupe of actors on a caravan to Clan Scarlyn.  Lasrty gets involved in a duel with the clan heir.

A young girl is found dead just before changing living quarters.  Danny Glover gets to the story behind the killing.

F. Scott Fitsgerald's story of an American ex-pat returning to his old haunts in Paris to retrieve his daughter.

Sam is called back by Elihu Person about disappearing  gold bricks from his mine.

Marshal Jones and his roly-poly deputy encounter a woman Sheriff while tracking two killers in the early west.

Ennis Harper hires Marlowe to find his wife.  She went off to the laundromat and didn't come back.

Montague is asked to perform at an event in Brooklyn at the Civic Club but Shakespeare has never been done that way before.

Abigail Fortitude finds herself in financial trouble and takes advantage of her grandmother's endowment to attend college but she didn't count on falling in love with her daughter's professor.

Ned Nifkins desperately wants to be able to talk to his cat, so he tries the spell of transformation.  But he finds there are a lot of disadvantages to becoming a cat.

Luke, while helping the sheriff bring in four Indians  watches a friend of his gun down a man. How can he save his friend from the gallows?

Mrs. Zinzer is having her tenth child and Lily has plans to have it come home to the Montague house.

Liz is knitting baby booties for a friend but Cory and husband, George, think she is expecting.

Harry Wilson works hard at appeasing his demanding wife so he has no clue that she's planning mischief when she sends him out for medicine on a wildly rainy night.

Larry is captivated by a small town in North Carolina, which doesn't seem to be the typical southern town, and a girl.

Johnny investigates a bequest that seems fishy, involving mediums and death.

Sam finds lots of trouble trying to return a curio called the Scythian Tiara.  Is no one as they seem?

Dagwood surprises Blondie by bringing his boss home for dinner.

The Forsythes have been haunted by a monster and Shayne is instructed to find out the true story.

Dagwood fires a gun in a department store.  Havoc ensues.

Johnny is sent to Scotland to find a missing husband.

Lily and Hilda need to get to their convention and keep having problems with the car.

A look at the life of Anne Bonney, lady pirate.

Early baseball in Dodge City with Doc as the umpire.

Dorothy Scott wants to scoop a murder but things get complicated.

Melvin has been roped into babysitting on a Saturday night.  But what a baby!

A salesman discovers a spell to change his wife into a dog.

A boy submits a slogan to a quiz show contest and wins but the results aren't what he expected.

Last minute passengers to the Arctic North by Tony and Dietz.

Mrs. Drake is dying and has invited her grandchildren to stay with her during her last month.  They think they will inherit everything but she has other plans.

The life of two sisters who move to New York.

Denny will never grow big enough to work as a miner so his mother allows him to go with the circus.  When he returns for a visit, she isn't happy with what she sees.    Then the emergency whistle starts to blow.

Starlet Sally in the Alley is pursued by a gunman.

The Count has lost 48 hours and he must find out why.

Hashknife and Sleepy arrive into town to find out that they are being hung at Willow Rock.  Who is using their names and why are they being hung?

A fortune teller is running a scam.

A mother and her young daughter stay at the home of a newly widowed housekeeper.  The girl plays a harmonica and waits for an answer from her missing father.

Gloria's father purchased a map and letters but was swindled. Now he has been murdered and the map and letters are missing.

Recorded on Zoom.

Matt's friend brings his Indian bride to Dodge.  A man beats her foully and is later found dead.  Everyone assumes she did it.  Matt has to find her and discover the truth.

When a boom town goes bust some local merchants hatch a scheme to preserve their prosperity.

Martin doesn't get along with Klara until he discovers that she is really his pen pal.

Irma buys a turkey for Thanksgiving.

Kimble has to teach Beljoy's daughter while serving as a "trusty" on a trumped up robbery charge.

Sam is cracking down on similes.  Starring Ivan Cury.

Montague is offered the role of Macbeth in the new movie being shot in Hollywood.  But will the second act be done underwater?

A horrible car accident has killed Jimmy's wife, Jane but perhaps there is a way for them to get together.

The Mayor and all the family packs up for the summer vacation, but what to do with the animals?

Richard is tasked with delivering a letter to Julio in the Barrio but everywhere he goes people turn up dead.

There's a rival in town against Edwin's Uncle Goodheart.

Based on true events from March, 1945.   A P-51 pilot is shot down and rescued by a U.S. submarine, which proceeded to rescue 28 additional personnel during the course of the following week.

Written by:  Joy Jackson

Eight diamonds are missing from Professor Rivers' lab and Sam is on the case  but the missing diamonds are only the beginning of the story.

What is your best Christmas memory?  How did it affect your Christmas spirit? 

Coming back from death, Amy develops a unique gift.

Who says cats can't be angels?

Librarianship in another dimension, handling overdue books of magic.

Librarianship in another dimension.  Handling overdue books of magic.  Written by Jay Fuller.

How these two range detectives got together and became a team.  Written by Joy Jackson.

This is the ART live performance of The Magnificent Montague, To Shave or Not to Shave, presented at the 2019 Northwest Folklife Festival.

Notes from the author:

This episode of "Job Talk" was my submission to the 2018 radio play writing contest sponsored by Radio Enthusiasts of Puget Sound, and which garnered third place at the live performance on February 2nd 2019. The actors performing were Larry Albert as The Announcer, Dave Selvig as Eddie Martin, Jenn Ollivier as April May (and the Pocket Soaps commercial characters), and Bryan Hendrickson as the Pocket Soaps spokesman. I think they did a fabulous job in portraying the characters and bringing my show to life. I'm working on a second episode, but don't know if or when it will be produced. Hope you enjoy it! - Posted with permission of the REPS Board of Directors. Kay Lutz

It's a game of hide and seek.  Where does someone hide when he physically cannot move?  Written by Stephen Poole.

Richard gets involved with an heiress who ends up dead before he can guard her.

Edwin must shave off his beard if he wants to be cast as Romeo.

Gary Maxwell, detective and Miss Riley, reporter, trying to get along on a case.

A World War II descendant of Robin Hood meets up with Robin's band at the battle of Dunkirk.

Repercussions of two marriages on the rocks.

Original story about a time-traveling bartender

Investigation of a political group of mothers and the resultant murder of a volunteer.

Reporter Anne Rogers joins Sgt. Flannigan to solve the case of Dr. King, dead at his chess game.

The head of the family is murdered and the jewels stolen with a houseful of suspects.

The Libbys have a last blowout on vacation before the operation.

Two college girls play a trick on the tour guide at Carlsbad Caverns but the joke is on them.

Science fiction Cold War satire about carrots and onions.

Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Dan has fallen in love with a lovely girl but some odd things start happening.

Sam Spade is called in to track down a mouse and the case becomes something more than that involving a lot of money.

Mr. Lincoln is in his first case as a brand new lawyer and encounters Mary in the audience.

A Silver Anniversary is a time to celebrate 25 years together, but what happens when the wife now wants a divorce?

Uncle Dan comes back from his trip to Denver a changed  man.  And then Mercedes Crabtree's troupe of actors comes to Medicine Hat.

Tillie's boss is on vacation and he has his wife come in as his substitute.  When her servants give notice, Tillie and the office staff have to help out. 

A woman keeps calling Edwin, calling him Boo Boo.  Who is this, and will it finally wreck Lily's marriage to Edwin?

The great war between the Atlanteans and the Nova Terrans has been long over but a cruel battle remains for two of the crew of the airship Dragonfly.  Navigator, Madeline Usher, must plot a course out of madness lest she and Libby Garnett perish.  The Usher Murders is a steampunk adaptation by Kay Lutz of E. A. Poe's famous short story.

Why would a thug buy 500 lemons in a retail ship?  Simon's curiosity won't leave it alone.

A suicide from the Golden Gate Bridge had on a mutation mink coat.  That didn't add up.  Starring Ivan Cury.

Earth is the forbidden world.  The government drops the misfits of society back to Earth, to certain death.  And the next drop might be you.

Are you looking for a special book?  A book full of insights and surprises?  One you just can't put down?  Grab your library card and check out "The Librarian's Aide," an original A.R.T. production written by Kay Lutz.

What starts out as a straight bodyguard job turns complicated when the subject's husband dies and Sam falls in love.

The lions and horses have been disappearing from a dude ranch.  Milk-toast, Omar, is sent by his insurance company to investigate.

Practical jokes are great fun for the joker but not so much for the victim.  What happens when the victim commits suicide?

Sam is hired to ensure the safe delivery of a valuable antique tankard to its new owner but finds himself investigating a suspicious death instead.

Two lovers learn that even a minor crime can have major consequences. 

Ivan Cury and Beverly Washburn star in this live performance recorded at Radio Studio East 2016.

Beverly Washburn stars in this original production, written and directed by John Greenway, and inspired by the oldtime radio show from the 1950s. Candy investigates the disappearance of an up and coming jazz singer in this live performance recorded at ART's May, 2016 Radio Studio East.

When Ken Pollard is offered the final solution to all his troubles, he gets more than he bargained for - or does he?  This American Radio Theater original production was recorded at the Jack Straw Studio in Seattle.  And if anyone sees Jennifer Newton, tell her ART wants her back!

A close look at the historic flight of three women aviators who flew non-stop across Russia in 1935.

This month we feature a special guest performance by The Chicago Group Players.  It's the classic story of a dancing caterpillar who becomes a national phenomenon.  Recorded live at American Radio Theater's Radio Studio East.

A true story of the American Civil War.  It's 1861 and fifteen year old  Alfred Wheeler has enlisted in the Union Army.  His family anxiously awaits his letters and prays for his safe return.

This orignal ART production stars Nick Wrycha as Alfred Wheeler with Dan Schindler as best friend  Tom Higgins.  They are joined by special guest stars Cliff Carpenter as the Grandfather and Jean Rouverol Butler as the Mother.