NPR Playhouse

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.

Related Topics:
Radio drama - National Public Radio - Earplay - 2002

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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.

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Among the broadcasts in its final season were the science fiction/fantasy anthology 2000X and the Los Angeles-based Open Stage.

Related Topics:
Science fiction - Fantasy - 2000X - Open Stage

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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.

Related Topics:
Selected Shorts - A Prairie Home Companion - Le Show - The Next Big Thing

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