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The Night Kitchen Radio TheaterLike Orson Welles’s brilliant Mercury Theater on the Air, The Night Kitchen Radio Theater, founded in 2002 by Arthur Yorinks, creates and produces dramatic and comedic plays, audio shorts, suspense and mystery series, musicals, and literary adaptations. The company performs live before theatrical audiences, records in the studio, and broadcasts to listeners across the country. With its past series @7 and "The Kennedy Center Presents The Night Kitchen Radio Theater," both broadcast on XM Satellite Radio, its work for Nickelodeon, and more, The Night Kitchen Radio Theater has established itself as the premier producer and presenter of audio theater. In the last two years alone, The Night Kitchen Radio Theater has created and performed over two dozen original audio plays to great acclaim. From Pinocchio to Gogol's The Portrait, from Bleak House and Kafka's Metamorphosis to Hansel & Gretel and Sherlock Holmes, the theater has produced memorable adaptations of literature for all ages. The Night Kitchen Radio Theater has performed live in New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and around the country and can be heard every Thursday night on XM Satellite Radio. Its work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME OUT NEW YORK, and other major press. Its company of actors include some of the best of Broadway and Off-Broadway and has featured Tony and Obie award winners as well as guest performers from film and television. The Night Kitchen Radio Theater exists not for nostalgic sake, but for its belief in audio drama’s compelling power of theatrical storytelling. Currently, The Night Kitchen Radio Theater can be seen on Broadway at the New Victory Theater in New York City. Its recorded work includes a new theatrical audio version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol. ________________________________ The Night Kitchen Radio Theater has a stable of the most talented radio Our brilliant casts have included Alice Playten, Richard Muenz, Ivy Austin (all Broadway professionals as well as Garrison Keillor “alumni”) in addition to award winners Steven Rattazzi and Karen Kandel and many others. Our musical director is Edward Barnes ___________________________________ Darrell Ayers, Vice President, Education, The Kennedy Center ________________________________ Our 2006 ~ 2007 Season included the @7 Series performing original audio plays based on the best of literature at the Abrons Arts Center in New York City Lysistrata Bleak House The Portrait Metamorphosis Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde _______________________________ OUR KENNEDY CENTER PRESENTS THE NIGHT KITCHEN RADIO THEATER included the following titles: The Emperor's New Clothes The Magician's Boy Pinocchio Clever Bill Harry & Lulu Company's Coming Hansel & Gretel The Fisherman and His Wife The Nose Seek Hey, Al Sherlock Holmes and the Golden Tooth Bad Boy Christmas in July The Flying Latke The Tale of Peter Rabbit ______________________________________ our mini-series THE ART OF ADAPTATION a collaborative series between The Night Kitchen Radio Theater developed a miniseries of original audio plays and brought this work to the JBFC during the 2006 - 2007 season. THE ART OF ADAPTATION examined the way different artists approach the task of adapting classic literature. It was an audio theater series which paired a classic piece of literature with an audio play adaptation of the same work. The programs began with a live performance of an audio play adaptation, followed by an audience participation discussion focusing on how literature is transformed into other media. A small panel, including the director of the Night Kitchen Radio Theater, took part in the discussion. Noah Hutton's documentary Inside the Night Kitchen Radio Theater was screened at the opening of this series.
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