OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MUSIC AND OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN
Dan Bianchi at 2008 NYIT
AWARDS
NOW PLAYING RADIOTHEATRE LIVE IN CONCERT
Celebrate EDGAR ALLAN POE'S BICENTENNIAL (1809-2009) with the critically acclaimed, award winning Radiotheatre in a unique event as they perform live, on stage, in an unprecedented year-long presentation of nearly all of the major works by the grand master of American horror! Included are: THE TELL TALE HEART, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, THE HOUSE OF USHER, MORELLA, THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, BERENICE, THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO, THE BLACK CAT, THE RAVEN, ANNABEL LEE, HOP FROG, THE OVAL PORTRAIT, THE PREMATURE BURIAL, THE CASE OF MR.VALDEMAR, WILLIAM WILSON, LIGEIA, THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE, THE SYSTEM OF DR.TARR AND PROFESSOR FETHER, THE SPHINX, THE OBLONG BOX, THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE...all newly adapted audio works for the stage by Dan Bianchi, complete with our great cast of storytellers, special guests, original orchestral scores and a plethora of sound effects!
EDGAR ALLAN POE (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic and is best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre. Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. Poe switched his focus from poetry to prose and spent several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move between several cities, including New York City. In Baltimore in 1835, he married his 13-year-old cousin. In January 1845, Poe published his poem “The Raven” to instant success. His wife died of tuberculosis two years later. On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown and has been attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, and tuberculosis. Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world. His work appears throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today.
Have you ever walked through the streets of Greenwich Village and stopped to look up at one of the buildings, the old ones, over a hundred years old and wondered ...what went on in there all these years? What kind of lives and deaths have taken place here? Do any of these lost souls still reside within, trapped between the living and the dead?
For over 200 years, the location of 85 East 4th St. has been declared haunted, damned, a portal to Hell . From its earliest days, the very ground has been shunned by neighbors. There have been numerous suicides, ghostly sightings and ghastly deaths. unexplained murders and exorcisms. And then, there is the howling. Where it comes from, no one knows...but, it was first heard in 1780.
In 2006, Radiotheatre presented THE HAUNTING OF 85 EAST 4th STREET to unanimous critical acclaim, sold out shows, and was nominated for NY Innovative Theater Awards BEST PERFORMANCE and BEST SOUND DESIGN. Now, in a completely different, FULLY STAGED presentation utilizing a revolutionary audio technology, they continue to examine the strange history of this location, as, The Amazing Carter, Communicator To The Great Beyond, returns to The Kraine Theatre to resurrect the evil within accompanied by award winning sound design and original orchestral score as never before heard on the live stage anywhere on Earth!
For 40 years, the city's executioner lived in a
wooden shack at 85 East 4th Street where he died a mysterious death. The hangman still haunts the place.
In 1818, Rev. Clinkard murdered and dismembered over 15 children on this very spot. Their bones were later found under the floorboards. Five heads are still missing.
In 1907, Frederick Parnell, the original builder of the present building,
pleaded for Father Denehy at St.Brigid's RC Church to exorcise the demons from 85 East 4th Street. After a terrifying experience, Father Denehy left the priesthood the very next day. Parnell moved to California.
May 14, 1912....
A prostitute is found outside the theater... clutching a man's severed hand.
In 1938, Janos Kovacs became the building's
caretaker. As the only witness to a bloody mass murder, he died
in an upstate
insane asylum.
Joseph Brent became caretaker of the building in 1921. Within days, he began to hear voices beneath the floor beckoning him to kill others.
1948...The Amazing Carter, Communicator To The Great Beyond, returns to The Kraine Theatre to resurrect the evil influences within.
LIFE MAGAZINE, 1949 - the famous photo of a spectral image often seen on the marble staircase.
The oldest tree in NYC, the HANGING TREE, still stands in Washington Square which was once a paupers burial ground.
Hundreds of executed souls still reside there.
WHO...OR WHAT...IS HAUNTING 85 E.4th ST.?
OPENS
OCT 4
Does the building still house an unholy evil? Is the land itself cursed? Or, can it be that the inordinate amount of violent and supernatural incidents that have taken place there are purely coincidental? Which do you prefer to believe?
COMING SOON
POE AND FRIENDS
RADIOTHEATRE MATINEE
OPENS JAN 24
Join Mr.POE and his
fellow MASTERS OF
HORROR ...H.P.Lovecraft,
Algernon Blackwood, M.R.James, Bram Stoker and more...as we present their greatest thrillers
once a month.
THE BEST OF RADIOTHEATRE presented once a month ..KING KONG, FRANENSTEIN, THE TIME MACHINE, THE WAR
OF THE WORLDS and more!
JUNE 28 - The Tell Tale Heart, The Cask Of Amontillado, The Murders In The Rue Morgue
JULY 26- William Wilson,
The Pit And The Pendulum,
The House Of Usher, The Raven
AUG 30 - The Sphinx, The Black Cat, The Oblong Box, Morella
SEPT 27 - The Masque of the
Red Death, The Fall of The
House Of Usher, Ligeia,
Annabel Lee
OCT - SPECIAL HALLOWEEN
PROGRAM
Thousands of NYers died during the 1822 Yellow Fever Epidemic. A huge tent was
erected on the lot at 85 E.4th St. to accomodate the bodies
