Murder Cafe

Season’s Greetings! Hudson Valley Radio Theatre is proud to present its second annual Holiday Hoot, a variety program of touching tunes and cool comedy, live from our couch to yours.

This year's show features the talents of Marlene Golia, Geneva Turner, Jim Keenen and Nanette Ayers, Ellen Pavloff, Jessica Boyd, Lauren Thayer Chantez Carter and host, renown stand-up comic, David Britton!

Holiday Hoot is a fundraiser for People’s Pla...

Hudson Valley Radio Theatre brings you a classic spy thriller, with a touch of comedy, The 39 Steps. This edge-of-the seat whodunit follows the incredible adventures of American hero Richard Hannay, as he encounters dastardly murderers, double-crossing secret agents, and, of course, devastatingly beautiful women.

This mesmerizing mystery of murder and spies, is loosely based on the novel by John Buchan and inspired by the timeless ...

For all you lollygagging listeners out there, Hudson Valley Radio Theatre presents its first annual Holiday Hoot, an evening of touching tunes and cantankerous comedy, live from our couches to yours. Join our master of ceremonies, a young man who puts a kick in all his schtick and candy in every stocking, Florida’s very own wonder boy Chris Falcioni. He'll be presenting the area's best entertainers all of whom will give you the&nbs...

Meet Abby and Martha Brewster, two charming elderly sisters who poison lonely old men to send them to a better place, in Theatre on the Road’s production of the Joseph Kesselring classic comedy Arsenic and Old Lace. The play’s hilarious plot unfolds when the Brewster sisters serve their guests a concoction of elderberry wine laced with arsenic and they enlist the aid of their nephew Teddy, a robust fellow who thinks he’s Teddy Roos...

Dracula

Written by Crane Johnson

Licensed by Dramatists Play Service

Produced by Hudson Valley Radio Theatre

You are invited to meet The Count as he attempts to move to move from Transylvania to England to find new blood and spread his undead curse, but Professor Van Helsing and Doctor Seward and his household members get in the way. Overhear a desperate race to save Renfield and others from Dracula's evil clutches — and, once and ...

Ghost Hunt is a spirited story about a stunt that goes wrong. Radio personality Smiley Smith and paranormal investigator, Dr. Roberta Reed tour a haunted house on a cliff above the Hudson River. Their experiences are recorded for playback on Smith's show. The house, known as "The Death Trap," has a bad reputation because four of its residents met mysterious ends.

Ghost Hunt was adapted for Hudson Valley Radio Theatre from a tale by...

Emily Bronte’s classic of the Victorian Age, a harrowing tale, written by a girl whose life was as bleak and somber as the Yorkshire moors where this story is laid.

It follows the life of Heathcliff, a mysterious person, from childhood to his death in his late thirties. Heathcliff rises in his adopted family and then is reduced to the status of a servant, running away when Cathy, the young woman he loves, decides to marry another. ...

It is 1934, and The Neptune Network Players go on the air with their new play, A Will to Kill. The story concerns a dying millionaire who has assembled his heirs to discuss his will. A gun is fired and the Lord of the manor falls dead, as scripted. But when the scene ends, it is discovered the actor is really dead. Who put real bullets in the prop gun and why? This play within a play explodes as accusations fly and actors break cha...

This is a classic tale from the imagination of one of America’s most influential writers - Edgar Allan Poe. We are pleased to breathe new life into, The Masque of the Red Death. The script, written by Jessica Boyd for Hudson Valley Radio Theatre, is based on Poe’s classic tale. His short story, written in 1842, is as relevant today as it was then. This fable concerns a dangerous plague and the attempts of the well-to-do to isolate ...

On the eve of his mysterious end Edgar Allan Poe, desperate and destitute, has agreed to read from his poems and tales of mystery. As he performs Annabel Lee, The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado and The Fall of the House of Usher, characters from these works appear and confront him. Are they figments of Poe's delusional mind seeking revenge or are they real? Entertaining and educational, Poe will perform again...never...

Danny Crunkle, owner of Dan-Dee-Can-Dee, is merging his company with Hershel Crackleberry his biggest competitor. On hand to witness Danny's news are his soft son Goobar, nutty ex-wife Sister Godiva, creamy girlfriend Coco, crunchy attorney Fanny Farmer and brittle chocolatier Russell Stover. Before Danny finishes his announcement gun shots ring out, a body falls and everyone scrambles for a piece of Danny's will. Who poisoned Dann...

Based on the novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes, THE LODGER concerns a serial killer known as "The Avenger" who is murdering young women. A mysterious man arrives at the home of the Buntings looking for a room to rent. Daisy, the Bunting's daughter is a young woman who seems to have captured the new lodger’s attention. Before the evening is over another body is found. Who is “The Avenger” and has he struck again?

Produced by Murder Cafe...

This classic radio suspense drama, written by Lucille Fletcher, was first broadcast in 1945. It concerns an invalid woman who overhears what she thinks is a murder plot and her attempts to prevent it. One night, whilst waiting for her husband to return home, she picks up the phone and accidentally overhears a conversation between two men planning a murder. She becomes increasingly desperate as she tries to work out who th...