Theatre Guild on the Air, ABC, then NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
← Broadway on the Air
1945–1953 · ABC, then NBC
Theatre Guild on the Air
Broadway's own company, restaged for the microphone
The Theatre Guild had spent twenty-five years putting O'Neill and Shaw on Broadway before it agreed to put them on radio, and it insisted on doing the job properly: its own producers, its own repertoire, and wherever possible the actors who had created the parts on stage. What resulted is the closest thing American radio has to a recording of the mid-century Broadway company at work. The catch, and it is worth saying plainly, is that these are studio remounts rather than transmissions from a theatre. The house you hear is a radio audience in a broadcast studio. But the performances are the stage performances, cut to fit fifty-two minutes and a steel company's commercials.
23 broadcasts · 7 seasons held · Belasco Theatre, New York
19454
Theatre Guild on the Air, ABC, then NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Theatre Guild on the Air, ABC, then NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Theatre Guild on the Air, ABC, then NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
194611
Theatre Guild on the Air, ABC, then NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Theatre Guild on the Air, ABC, then NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Theatre Guild on the Air, ABC, then NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Theatre Guild on the Air, ABC, then NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Theatre Guild on the Air, ABC, then NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Theatre Guild on the Air, ABC, then NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Theatre Guild on the Air, ABC, then NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Theatre Guild on the Air, ABC, then NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Theatre Guild on the Air, ABC, then NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Theatre Guild on the Air, ABC, then NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Theatre Guild on the Air, ABC, then NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
19473
Theatre Guild on the Air, ABC, then NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Theatre Guild on the Air, ABC, then NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Theatre Guild on the Air, ABC, then NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
19481
Theatre Guild on the Air, ABC, then NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
19501
Theatre Guild on the Air, ABC, then NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
19512
Theatre Guild on the Air, ABC, then NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Theatre Guild on the Air, ABC, then NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
19521
Theatre Guild on the Air, ABC, then NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.