NPR Playhouse
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NPR Playhouse was a series of radio dramas from National Public Radio. The series was a successor to the NPR series Earplay and was discontinued in September 2002.
In 1981, The Playhouse production of the first of the Star Wars radio dramas, a 13-part 6½-hour version of , generated the largest response in NPR's history, with an audience averageing over 750,000 listeners per episode.
Among the broadcasts in its final season were the science fiction/fantasy anthology 2000X and the Los Angeles-based Open Stage.
The dramatic-reading series Selected Shorts continued as the only national program devoted to regular offerings of radio drama, leaving aside the sketches on A Prairie Home Companion and Le Show and the intermittent presentation of drama on the largely-documentary series The Next Big Thing.
External link
- [NPR Playhouse October 1, 2002 - R.I.P.], from a production company supplying material to the show
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