ONE NIGHT STAND THEATER

10.04.2024

We are in the middle of rehearsing our old-time radio show, “Doctor Crypt’s House of Terror,” and we look forward to sharing our evening of nostalgic thrills and chills with you on Sunday night, Oct. 13 at Vintage Theatre. Join us at the not-so-witching hour of 7:30 p.m. to team up Wyndom Winston, the Ghost Hunter, as he exposes the horrible secret of Brother Garnett, and find out what’s happening in the vineyard of McFarland Winery after midnight! The show is hosted and ghosted by Doctor Crypt, announcer extraordinaire.

 

Here are two more quotes from the radio plays featured:

 

“Believe me, my memories are as terrifying as...as your appearance.” – The Monster in the Mirror (from The Mysterious Traveler radio show, 1944)

 

“Nature created something very few humans ever get to see. Something you don’t want to see.” – Midnight Call by Kevin David Anderson

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09.28.2024

We have gathered our cast for our October 13 show, “Doctor Crypt’s House of Terror.” Doctor Crypt, our ghoulish old-time radio host, told us, “I’m so happy to welcome back my good friends to my humble House of Terror on October 13th: One Night Stand Theater actors Adrian Hart, Joi Hiatt, Scott Hasbrouck, Emily Koehler Mathena, Mark Ogle, Bethany Lillis Tisdale and Guy Williams. I’m also thrilled to welcome two new victims…I mean, two new actors: Mike Moran and Kyle Lawrence!”

 

Here are quotes from two of the plays we will perform in our “House of Terror” show, one adapted from a 1930s horror radio drama and the other inspired by the mystery and adventure serials of the Golden Age of Radio:  

 

“There's some devilment underfoot in this house. And we're right in the middle of it.” – He Only Lives at Night (from The Hermit’s Cave radio show, 1937)

 

“Just my luck: interrupted by an insane gorilla.” – The Adventures of Dirk Diamond, Private Eye by Dave Ufford

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09.13.2024

We’ve selected the plays for our next One Night Stand Theater production, “Doctor Crypt’s House of Terror”! Thank you to the playwrights and writers who sent in their plays and stories for our evening of old-time radio thrills and chills. Our October 13 show features adaptations of mystery and horror radio programs of the 1930s and 1940s as well as new plays in the style of old-time radio:

 

• An irate customer regrets spying on the night shift in “Midnight Call” by Kevin David Anderson.

• Private eye Dirk Diamond faces subterranean dangers while eluding a killer gorilla in “Episode 7: Cavern of Despair” by Dave Ufford.

• The ugliest woman in the world travels a dark and wicked path to be beautiful again in 1944’s “The Monster in the Mirror.”

• Shelter from the storm turns gruesome and suffocating for two ghost hunters in 1937’s “He Only Lives at Night.”

 

Our host for the evening, Doctor Crypt, says he can’t wait to see you at the show: “It would be murderous to miss it!”​