"Dan Bianchi turns a radio performance into a THEATER SPECTACLE...it will both move and spook you..." OffOff Online
"The stark stage and near darkness heighten the audience's focus on the voices...to manufacture a truly eerie atmosphere the production needs nothing more than its fabulous sound track and GARY ANDERSON'S haunting music..." OffOff Online
"A SOUND EXTRAVAGANZA!" VARIETY
"Where does Radiotheatre find these performers with amazing radio voices? The characters are engaging, the script is expository in all the right places and the pacing is brisk..." NYTIMES.com
"Radiotheatre is a new hybrid aural and visual experience to whet your imagination!" VARIETY
"COMPELLING....a tribute to how GRIPPING this piece of modern mythology remains!" ABOUT TOWN
"A PRIME EXAMPLE OF 'LESS IS MORE' " NYTMES.com
"BOY, HAVE WE GOT A RECOMMENDATION FOR YOU! I thought to myself, how the hell are these folks going to pull this off....I actually closed my eyes and let the actors, music and script do all the work...they did indeed accomplish their goal of giving a new generation an appreciation for entertainment from past eras." RETROVISION
"Makes for an interesting evening of retro theater going and good fun!" NYTIMES.com
"Collin Biddle's strong and powerful narration kept me in suspensel!" NYTIMES.com
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"FIVE STARS! PIGMAN is a frightening hit!..The Renaissance man behind the whole production is Dan Bianchi who wrote and directed the play, as well as, scored music and designed the soundtrack which sounds like a Hollywood movie...highly unusual for theatre" NYTHEATRE.comick here to add your text.
"The PIGMAN OF DELANCEY STREET is the most unique show in all NYC! It's an experience you won't get at any other show. Dan Bianchi's direction is right on and always moving. His script is exquisite! His musical score is unlike anything I've ever heard in any show I've seen, big or small. It's more like a movie sound track. A really great night in the theater!" BROADWAY BOX
"If you close your eyes, you'd swear that there were more than five actors playing all the parts. Donna Heffernan screams the bricks out of the wall!" NYTIMES.com
"Jamie Jackson delivers a great performance!" NY TIMES.com
Here's what some of the critics have said about Dan Bianchi's other productions...
"His productions are clearly thought out and good natured in their approach, making them both timely and absorbing at a juncture in our history when political trends make it easy to simply fall into apathetic retreat..." THE LONDON TIMES
"Great fun! Crack-brained humor! Unending drive!" NY TIMES
"A munificence of soul!" FIGARO
"Audiences will find his work surprisingly in tune with today's disenchanted feeling for government and the people who run it. The humor is broad, the satire obvious and the targets are always in sight and easily reached." NY TIMES
"Mr.Bianchi is, perhaps, the only American director who truly seems to have a grasp of how Brecht's 'Alienation Effect' works. Yet, he knows the difference between dialectic and polemic demagoguery. He understands the audience he has chosen and allows them to reach their own conclusions without haranguing them. That is central to a theater that seeks to stimulate its audience through intellectual channels." VILLAGER
"An intellectual tour-de-force..." VILLAGE VOICE
"Dan Bianchi can both write and direct in the complex, often ironic, epic theater style. His productions are executed with literary intelligence, theatrical sophistication and entertaining flourish. His characters yearn to place their faith in religion, justice, and man's potential humanity to man."
THEATER REVIEW MAGAZINE
"His work shows the guts and brains of a company that ought to last!" NEWSDAY
"As Renaissance man behind the entire operation, Artistic Director Dan Bianchi is also the Director, Author, Lyricist and Set Designer. For his company to have attempted and pulled off a work of this scope, this complexity and length is alone worth commendation...but, on many levels his work can stand against more commercial and better-funded productions, especially, technically." NY STAGE
"I have watched his work grow over the years with considerable delight at Bianchi's sensitivity and talent for using the Epic Style of production. His works are ambitious, literate, intelligent and entertaining. Bianchi has joined Beckett at the periphery of existence to contemplate the future of mankind. I am sure that he has the makings of a major artist." HISTORY OF AMERICAN THEATER, Editor, S. Hart, Phd.
Dan Bianchi claims that he produces works 'for the people,' not in the traditional Socialist sense, appealing to just a select few of an elitist intelligentsia in the downtown NYC scene who revel in all things European. No, he's out to exploit Americana, the pulp world of literature and all its genres that last forever and have become part of the fabric of our lives and, yet, are usually ignored by traditional theatremakers, or, are horribly translated to the live stage. ...Bianchi takes a serious approach..."Although we have a lot of fun here, if I were to parody these genres in a snide manner, I'd be joining those who continue to snub and look down their noses at this kind of work. But, most of our inspiration comes from the era of American writing when there were no less than 20 daily NYC newspapers and a few hundred weekly fiction magazines and paperbacks filling the racks down at the corner stand. People took pleasure in reading back then and there were plenty of writers, long forgotten, who made their living from creating what we now know as Horror, Science Fiction, Westerns, Romance, Fantasy and Crime genres, all of which became raw material for both low budget and blockbuster motion pictures and cult TV shows later on. " AMERICAN THEATERWORKER MAGAZINE
"Bianchi freshly creates these plays resulting in a new and live-action genre..."
UNITED STAGES
"Charles Wilson seems born to play the role" OffOffOnline
WRITER/DIRECTOR
DAN BIANCHIhas spent over 30 years in theater and film as an Independent Theatre artist which includes writing, directing, producing, set and lighting design, music and sound design, graphics, PR and whatever else is necessary to keep the ball rolling. Among his accomplishments, he's been founder/Artistic Director of four international theater companies, written and directed over 50 plays and musicals, worked as screenwriter in Hollywood, directed 7 motion pictures with members of the Royal Shakespeare Co., won three-times Best Director Off Broadway, twice The Beckett Prize, the ASCAP Musical Theater Award, Billy Rose Theater Award, the National Writers Guild Screenwriting Award, a MacDowell Fellowship, and a National Humanities Grant. He recently directed a DV feature THE EVIL KILLERS. He founded and ran VIDEOTHEATRE, NYC's only year round DV-dedicated indie theater. He is also a visual artist whose works have been shown in galleries and museums around the world, including Museum of Modern Art, NYC,
MOMA Australia, Brazil, Germany, Museum of Non -Conformism, Russia, etc.
With a lighting design inspired by FILM NOIR and an intricate sound track and musical score that reminds one more of an action movie than of a traditional play, Bianchi never lets us forget that what he's offering is unique to the stage. But, unlike a lot of theatre these days, this isn't a play looking to become a film script. This kind of theatre is pure theatre and it can't be reproduced in any other medium. In fact, it's probably best to leave it in the intimate space where it began and forget about moving it to a larger theater where it may lose its intimacy and unique charm.... The audience is not just an observer, but, a participant...not unlike sitting around a campfire listening to ghost stories. Bianchi produces more stage works each year in NYC than any other group. He's not the darling of the critics, certainly, but, his shows are always sold out and his audiences are composed of all ages. HOLLYWOOD OBSERVER
PAST PRODUCTIONS
"PICK OF THE WEEK! GO SEE IT!...THE HAUNTING OF 85 EAST 4th STREET is an innovative piece crafted out of great love for the city and its history...LIKE ORSON WELLES AND COMPANY, Radiothteatre has polished up an unusual and effective story telling technique...the cast assume all their roles in a spookingly convincing manner...the stories themselves are terrifying and Radiotheatre's technique of providing voices and sound effects forces the audience to recreate the horror's visual aspects as mental theatre...much more horrific than any B Movie moment are true stories Bianchi has unearthed... Bianchi finds New York's haunted most chillingly by the effects of poverty and injustice..." OFFOFFONLINE
"INVOKES ORSON WELLES AND THE MERCURY THEATRE COMPANY!
THE HAUNTING OF 85 EAST 4th STREET is a polished production that takes its pulp roots seriously and proves that Halloween doesn't just happen once a year...using a heavy battery of sound effects and creepy music, it is by turns hokey and unnerving and never less than totally effective...and with such juicy material to play with the entire company sinks their teeth in and presents the building's spooky highlights with relish...the show's biggest asset is authenticy...performing the play in the room where most of the building's bloodcurdling events happened adds a disturbing sense of unease to the production ...as directed by Dan Bianchi those moments carry chilling crediblity..." NYTHEATRE.COM
"DON'T MISS THE HAUNTING! This is the scariest show I have ever seen...All of the actors were great in their roles but the real genius behind the whole production is DAN BIANCHI who wrote, directed and also designed the great music and sound effects...I don't know when I had a more enjoyable night in the theater!" BROADWAY BOX
"YOU WANT SPOOK STORIES? Forget CGI ghoulishness...just let a few people unfold a scary tale in a dark room. Among the current spate of edited-on-amphetamines programs, there's something soothingly satisfying about entertainlment stripped to its essentials. Writer/ Director DAN BIANCHI assembles enough genre elements to harken back to the halcyon days of radio drama..." BACKSTAGE
"To Bianchi's credit, it's the cold hard truth that sucks us in...one can't help but notice the cracked tiles at the bottom of the stairs and those other buildings lining East 4th St. each with their own silent mysteries..." VILLAGER
"From crazy prostitutes holding severed hands to mirrors with eyes, the building has quite a past and Radiotheatre's show offers a history
lesson unmatched by anything taught in school" ABOUT TOWN
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WINTER 2006
NOMINATED 2007 NY INNOVATIVE THEATER AWARDS: BEST PERFORMANCE ART and BEST SOUND DESIGN
SPRING 2006
NOMINATED 2006 NY INNOVATIVE THEATRE AWARDS:
BEST PERFORMANCE ART and BEST SOLO ARTIST
FALL 2005
SUMMER 2005
WINTER-SPRING2005/ FALL 2004
NOMINATED 2005 NY INNOVATIVE THEATRE AWARD: BEST SOUND DESIGN
