Soundstage

WMNF's original radio theatre series, plus exciting audio theatre from other cutting-edge producers.

Soundstage is proud to present Season One of Afghanada, a gripping war drama from the CBC.

Find out more about Afghanada here. You can hear last week's episode here; for a quick synopsis of the story so far, check out the episode guide (season one is down the page a bit).

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THE ADVENTURES OF PATCH & CLICK - SEASONS 1-3

• Season 1 - Episode 1
• Season 1 - Episode 2
• Season 1 - Episode 3
• Season 1 - Episode 4
• Season 1 - Episode 5
• Season 1 - Episode 6
• Season 2 - Episode 1
• Season 2 - Episode 2
• Season 3 - Episode 1
• Season 3 - Episode 2
  • Check out WMNF's sci fi comic adventure - set in a world where humans are plugging their spinal cords into the cyberstream, and cyberhanced talking animals are fighting for their rights.

SYMPHONY NOIR

• An original work by James Tokley, produced by Matthew Cowley. Plus other Tokley original poemss and works by poets including Paul Lawrence Dunbar.

Brand New OFFRAMP!. . . **Our Everlying Love

• Featuring the Garotte in G Major, Bivalve Music, The Windy Side of Town, Egregious and Inexcusable Behavior, Gary's High School Memories Song, and Salmon with a C.

LIVE RADIO THEATRE BROADCASTS!

• Check out the recordings of three live broadcasts featuring actors from St. Petersburg's Studio @620 in original noir-style radio plays from their Film Noir Festival.

  • The Red Hat Affair
  • Ernie Tripe, Litter Detective
  • Nick Steele & The Tale of the Crown Jewel

Offramp Season 3

• Iconoclastic Common Sense . . . we start Offramp's third season Stark Raving Naked, singing the Go Feline Go Blues and trying out Reverse Doppler, Cooking Schools of Thought, Remembering Baba Louie, Changing the Station, The Swiss National Anthem and Astroboy You Make Me Want to Shimmy.
• A Fragrant Disregard for Truth. . . Reconfiguration, Playing in 7, We Come in Peace, Olfactory Messages, Don't Electrify, The Buses of Tourists, The Mercury Festival of 1994, I Built My Love a Sushi Bar, School Mascots, Gary's Falsetto Tax Evasion Song (27:15)
• Original Sins . . . the Screaming Mommy Warmup, Breakfast Food Surgery, Merciful Loan Sharks, Vampire Holidays, Moose Traditions, Melancholy Space Repair, Where Can We Put the Boat?, I Demand, Open Mic, Save the Dryers (25:22)

Autobiorama

True stories told by the people who lived them, produced by Bob Easton-Waller.

• Autobiorama Holiday Special. . . The sweet and sour sides of Christmas.
• Autobiorama - To Drink Or Not to Drink. . . We'll hear a Buddhist convert wrestling with abstinence, and a tale of alcoholic rehab where the patients are encouraged to smoke to ease the pain.
• Autobiorama - Being Someone You're Not. . . Being Someone You're Not, and all the comedy and angst that entails (27:23).

WMNF's Halloween special - INSATIABLE!

Is it psychological horror, or horrible psychoses. . . ? Tune in and decide. . .

Offramp Season 2 - BREAKDOWN OF THE BICAMERAL MIND - Behind the Offramp

Hear behind the scenes and find out how this award-winning improvised show is created!

• Includes: No Exit, Writing the Songs, Cranberry Song, Dave's Grandpa, Gary’s Picking Up Out There, Back End of a Pantomime Horse, Dave's Irish Vocal Lessons, Teutonic Plates, Cheese Mistress Song, Your Accent Is Too Thick For Me To Understand, French Complaints, Joe’s World of Tires and Opthalmologists, Pirate Songwriting, One Man Dixieland Band, Scrubbing the Floors, Improvised Music, This Is Not a Trio, Just A Map, Scatalogical Scat, Language Meanderings, Marsupial In My Pocket Song, Can I Kiss You, Herfret (29:10)

The Poetry of James Tokley

• Poems written and performed by Tampa's Poet Laureate. . . including "War of the Gods," an epic about the famed Ali-Foreman match, set to a radio theatre soundscape. (24:34)

Not just for kids. . .

The Three Pigs Go To The Ball

• an off-kilter look at fairy tale traditions. (12:02)

OFFRAMP - WMNF'S improv comedy series!

OFFRAMP Season 1

• Please, Sir, Remain Calm December 8, 2003. . .

  • Drive-Through, Wallet Sports, This Is Your Captain, Crittenden's Greeting Cards, Courting Your Mother, Adopted Grandparents

• Radiopaque - Live From The Film Festival December 15, 2003. . .

  • The Offramp troupe reporting "live" from a film festival. . . featuring Renting the World's Worst Apartment, Drive-Through Memories, Busking Under the Boardwalk, plus a Parade and Commentary from Our Film Critics

• Are You The Grocer? September 22, 2003. . .

  • Disappearing, Information Program, Prognostication, Cockney Abominations, Festival Yep, Audition, Banana Pants, Singing Telegram

• Not Bad For A Fiasco September 29, 2003. . .

  • Dr. Harvey Has Something to Say, Seasonal Depression, Bankruptcy, French Movers

• Ailimentary, WatsonSeptember 15, 2003. . .

  • Pizza Order, The Restaurant for French Ex-Lovers, Side of the Road Song, Blame, Onstage With No Words, Squirrel Duels

• Deplorable Manners October 13, 2003. . .

  • Whaling Men, Baitbiter, Late Night Horror, The Letter D, Last Train Out, Sharpening the Axe

• It's Askance October 27, 2003. . .

  • Waterman's Dream, The Flood, Refund, Guitar Lessons, Odor Beard, Baby Put That Thing Down

• The Squeaky Toy of Love October 20, 2003. . .

  • Mice, Cowboy Song, Confusionism, Open Windows, 304-Year-Old Man, I'm The Squeaky Toy of Love

• Hallelujah, Nietzche November 3, 2003. . .

  • Julio Banderas, Stewbum the Sailor, Voices, Scrabble Smuggling, Ghost Industries, Windup Sofa, She Said No

• Everything You've Heard Is All Lies November 10, 2003. . .

  • Lights Out, Vacuum Packed Air, Mosquito Safari, Border Song, Bean Pirates, Smoo Man & Snee Boy

  OFFRAMP Season 2

• Moderation is for Lunks February 2, 2004. . .

  • Gary’s New Nose, Deli Shakedown, Telling Your Future, Bright Tuesday Dishes, Singing Restaurant, Porcupines and Wombats, Monkey in the Cauliflower Song, What If, The Potato of Love

• Shall We Hop This One? February 9, 2004. . .

  • Disjointed Time Song, Underworld Travel, Shall We Hop This One, Sandbar Sale, The Way She Threw Her Shoes, I Knew Her By Atomic Weight, Ant Safari, The Way You Polish the Driveway

• Me, Completely Serious February 16, 2004. . .

  • Wall Walking, Could You Forgive Me If, Latvian Rock Tossing, The Funsbats, Turbulent Day Song, Dynamiting for Catfish, Catfish Cookery, Vampire Slugs, Worm Memorabilia, The Honeypants Song

• Layers of Insurrection February 23, 2004. . .

  • Inexplicable Unexplainable, 24 Hour Long Sunday, Doorbells, Valet, Three Magic Things, The Looking For You Song, The Wolf and The Guru, Travel Round, Pirate Vacation, Mariachi Guys, Clogging Vaudevillians (26:15)

• Back in the Antechamber April 12, 2004. . .

  • Someone of Your Height Song, You Are An Ant, Italian Fairy Tales, Flying Granny, Everything I Could Possibly Want Song, We Want Something Big, Four Lane Highway, Onstage With No Words Song

• Dingy Man April 26, 2004. . .

  • Long Distance Ventriloquist, Grudges, Football Field Restoration, I'm More, Spaghetti On My Wedding Night, French Diets, I Think I Told Her, Granny's Garbage, Pirate Binky, Dinghy Man Song

• Dancing at the Crematorium June 21, 2004. . .

  • Igor to Learn, Guest Guitarist, Gary's Song, Loving Infection, Duck Fry Mania, You Have Moistened My Camel, Hunted House Song, As & So, Slightly Used Avatar, Dancing at the Crematorium

• The Fabric of Renown June 28, 2004. . .

  • Citizen Test, Slogan Song, Martians, Dog Crochet, Where Hamsters Run Free, She Was a Space Invader, Tickets to the Earth's Core, Living on Mars song, Weekly Radio, Gary's Croquet Deportation Song

• Nosebleeds of the Mind July 19, 2004. . .

  • Mr. Puppet & The Cheerful Philosopher, The Call of the Circus, This Strange Music is Giving Me Pause, Nosebleeds of the Mind, Snakes in a Box, The Pile of Life, Spanish Verb Song

• Bach Centrifuge July 26, 2004. . .

  • Driver's License Bureau, Snatches of Melody, Dave Sings & Plays (The Birthday Song), Somewhere A Dramatic Reading, Dave's Blues, Pickling for Dollars, Unsticking the Door, Tie My Shoes Gospel, Lovesong Instruction, Uncle Henry

• Plenty More Answers Where That Came From November 29, 2004. . .

  • Miss Tasha's Dance Instruction, New Product, Bartholomew and Willie, Domesticated Objects, Famous Soccer Player Song, Real Life Discussions, What Do You Do?, Gallery of Hysteria, Cavorting Can Song (27:09)

• The Thoroughfare of Commerce and Complaint December 6, 2004. . .

  • George Washington in the Studio, Inexplicably Deluded Women, Evolutionary Terrorism, Revisionist History, Mundane Impressions, Gary's Granny, Dog Talk (26:42)

June 6, 2005. . . BREAKDOWN OF THE BICAMERAL MIND - Behind the Offramp __ Hear behind the scenes and find out how this award-winning improvised show is created! No Exit, Writing the Songs, Cranberry Song, Dave's Grandpa, Gary’s Picking Up Out There, Back End of a Pantomime Horse, Dave's Irish Vocal Lessons, Teutonic Plates, Cheese Mistress Song, Your Accent Is Too Thick For Me To Understand, French Complaints, Joe’s World of Tires and Opthalmologists, Pirate Songwriting, One Man Dixieland Band, Scrubbing the Floors, Improvised Music, This Is Not a Trio, Just A Map, Scatalogical Scat, Language Meanderings, Marsupial In My Pocket Song, Can I Kiss You, Herfret (29:10)

### OFFRAMP Season 3

• Iconoclastic Common Sense October 10, 2005. . .

  • We start Offramp's third season Stark Raving Naked, with the Go Feline Go Blues, Reverse Dopler, Cooking Schools of Thought, Remembering Baba Louie, Changing the Station, the Swiss National Anthem and Astroboy You Make Me Want to Shimmy. (27:16)

• OFFRAMP SEASON 3 - A Fragrant Disregard for Truth October 17, 2005. . .

  • Featuring Reconfiguration, Playing in 7, We Come in Peace, Olfactory Messages, Don't Electrify, The Buses of Tourists, The Mercury Festival of 1994, I Built My Love a Sushi Bar, School Mascots, Gary's Falsetto Tax Evasion Song (27:15)

• Original Sins December 5, 2005. . .

  • Featuring - The Screaming Mommy Warmup, Breakfast Food Surgery, Merciful Loan Sharks, Vampire Holidays, Moose Traditions, Melancholy Space Repair, Where Can We Put the Boat?, I Demand, Open Mic, Save the Dryers (25:22)