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The Night Kitchen Radio Theater

is now part of the

 

The yorinks theater group (including the work of The Night Kitchen Radio Theater) is a collective of writers, actors, designers, and composers who create, produce, and perform original theater work with sound at its core. Our productions are developed for live performance, recordings, and broadcast. We begin where audio theater left off, as we push the envelope of what was a 20th century medium, to experiment and explore and create a 21st century multimedia "new theater of sound." Our goal is to reach a new audience through all forms of audio distribution
and live theater presentations.

In 2009, the yorinks theater group will present its cutting edge work at WNYC Radio's The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space.

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The Night Kitchen Radio Theater

The Night Kitchen Radio Theater, founded in 2002 by Arthur Yorinks, was a group of actors, writers, composers, and sound designers who explored the realm of audio theater. It performed original audio plays live in front of audiences around the country which were recorded and broadcast on XM Satellite Radio. The theater company also recorded works in the studio for broadcast as well. The Night Kitchen Radio Theater created and produced dramatic and comedic plays, audio shorts, suspense and mystery series, musicals, and literary adaptations.

With its past series @7 and "The Kennedy Center Presents The Night Kitchen Radio Theater," and it work at The New Victory Theater in New York City, as well as its work for Nickelodeon, The Night Kitchen Radio Theater established itself as one of the premier producers and presenters of audio theater. In the last few years alone, The Night Kitchen Radio Theater created and performed dozens of 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 performed live in New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and around the country and was heard every Thursday night on XM Satellite Radio. Its work was featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME OUT NEW YORK, and other major press. Its company of actors included 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.

 

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The Night Kitchen Radio Theater's
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.

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Collaborative Partners included

Darrell Ayers, Vice President, Education, The Kennedy Center
Kim Peter Kovac, Director, Youth and Family Programs, The Kennedy Center
Josephine Reed, XM Satellite Radio
Jen Wrenn, First Book
Brown Johnson, Nick Jr. (Nickelodeon)

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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

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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

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our mini-series

THE ART OF ADAPTATION

a collaborative series between
The Jacob Burns Film Center and The Night Kitchen Radio Theater
including a brief documentary by Noah Hutton
entitled Inside the Night Kitchen Radio Theater

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.