Thanks to popular demand and wonderful feedback from listeners, we're proud to announce A WHITE WHALE is setting sail as a 4-part episodic podcast!
Part One is now available to stream on our website, or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode also contains a bonus Q&A with Elizabeth McCoy, who plays Ishmael!
"Awesome adaptation to one of the great American novels! Play stayed true to the Melville classic. Voice actors conveyed superb emotion, dialect, mood, tone, and energy."
-Listener from Oak Lawn, IL
Our musician/composer for A WAR OF THE WORLDS, Ben Zucker, has just released a new album DEMIURGENT. Check it out! Ben says:
"This album was made over the fall and winter of last year—the sum of a variety of electronic and instrumental noodling, recorded in churches, forests, and bedrooms—real and unreal spaces put together. Hence the name, which puts together an old theological concept of an ambiguous creator/creative force, with ‘emergent’, for the way these sounds have a way of escaping even my expectations."
Watch original video art for DEMIURGENT's "Cereltan"
Watch original video art for DEMIURGENT's "Edicroes"
A Theater in the Dark creates stories through sound, most recently cooking up with signature style its adaptation of Herman Melville's MOBY DICK. The April 2021 production was hailed as "brilliantly adapted" (Around the Town Chicago) with "some of the best, most evocative writing I've heard from a theater this year" (Chicago Sun-Times), "wonderful versatile performances" (WDCB Radio), and a "haunting" original score (Buzz Center Stage).
The CHICAGO READER called A Theater in the Dark's A WAR OF THE WORLDS "a stylish and compelling adaptation." RESCRIPTED called it "cosmic and intimate... skillfully adapts the novel with captivating language that matches the production's renowned predecessors." BUZZ CENTER STAGE called the company's THREE STORIES UP "a gripping 80-minute drama" and "a must see as one of Chicago's more creative theatre adventures." AROUND THE TOWN CHICAGO called A CHRISTMAS CAROL IN THE DARK a "masterful adaptation." All three of these previous productions are now available ON DEMAND.
WINNER--CRITIC'S CHOICE AWARD
WINNER--Best Audio Production
WINNER--Best Sound Mixing
WINNER--Best Performances
--- 2021 Atlanta Audio Fringe Festival
