Over at Vulture, Boris Kachka details some of the latest moves by bigger and bigger business entities to monetize podcasting. Here at our humble JAT headquarters in Deepest Springfield, we keep on watching these sorts of reports the same way YouTubers and others might look at news of changes to the streaming and on-demand video…
Read MoreThe Library of Congress is an amazing institution and works hard to preserve just about everything, but even they need to prioritize. To that end, they have registries of films and other media that they take extra care to preserve. Every year, about 25 works are added to these registries due to their cultural significance….
Read MoreWe naturally love voice actors, so when we come across a nice retrospective of a voice actor’s work, we love to share. Today, it’s Thurl Ravenscroft — who left us in 2005 and yet may still be heard here and there, now and then… kind of like a voice actor pooka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUl8dyaUIqo
Read MoreWe are convinced that, in an alternate dimension, Quorum was done as a vintage radio show and Paul Frees was a member of the Quorum. So it was a great treat to hear Paul Frees’ demo tape. Note to current voice actors: under no circumstances should your demo tapes be five minutes long. In fact,…
Read MoreAs we mentioned last week, the 2018 season of Jabberwocky Audio Theater will debut on WERA-LP Radio Arlington on Sunday, June 10th, at 4pm ET. We’re excited to originate on broadcast radio, but of course when we started JAT (before the time distortion), we were thinking of doing distribution solely as a podcast… so it’s nice…
Read MoreOne of our absolute favorite things about audio theater is finding and creating sound effects (actually, this can count for film production too). That’s one of the reasons we’re trying to incorporate plenty of sound effects into our live production of War of the Worlds this coming Memorial Day weekend. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Xh_VU3jXA
Read MoreYou can always use more sound effects and the Beeb has long been an excellent source of all sorts of delightful sounds. Our artistic director fondly remembers listening through a multi-LP set of sound effects whilst doing the sound design for a stage production many moons ago. Apparently, he was unsuccessful at slipping in a…
Read MoreGiven how much fun it is to come up with new show ideas, this piece about an audio drama that’s also an interactive alternate reality game (ARG) gave us some ideas. We actually thought about doing an ARG for Quorum, but then we decided it’d be best to focus on releasing it first — though maybe…
Read MoreOne of the reasons we do audio theater is that we love great voices, so it’s always sad when someone like Chuck McCann leaves us as he did last week at the age of 83. You can read a good piece from AP, an article from the Hollywood Reporter, and the remembrance in the Mirror…
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