A lot of the company has worked, and continues to work, in live theater — though now it isn’t as easy. We previously shared a message from the artistic director of the Guthrie Theater in Minnesota about theater’s enduring qualities. Theaters are continuing to find ways to weather the closures, and one way, as detailed…
Read MoreThe classic German fairy tale “The Elves and the Shoemaker,” plus an appropriately clever Sicilian tale “The Cunning Shoemaker” “The Elves and the Shoemaker”by the Brothers Grimm, from their collection Kinder und Hausmärchen (1812)translated by Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwardes (1823) “The Cunning Shoemaker”A tale from SicilyIncluded in Andrew Lang’s collection The Pink Fairy Book (1897) LISTEN TO…
Read MoreIf one is going to write about interstellar empires and civilizations that span centuries, you would be well served by reading Isaac Asimov’s celebrated Foundation series. At least, we know that the Foundation series was one of the things Bjorn Munson kept in mind when creating the Imperium for Rogue Tyger. He’s currently re-reading the…
Read MoreTune in to WERA-LP 96.7 FM just about now (4:00pm ET) for two additions to our series Through the Looking Glass. The classic German fairy tale “The Elves and the Shoemaker,” plus an appropriately clever Sicilian tale “The Cunning Shoemaker” “The Elves and the Shoemaker”by the Brothers Grimm, from their collection Kinder und Hausmärchen (1812)translated by Edgar…
Read MoreThe iconic French version of a fairy tale which has variants going back centuries in many parts of the world. Don’t worry: this has all the quality step-family shenanigans you’re seeking. LISTEN TO THE EPISODE Powered by RedCircle Length: 21:53 Rated AD-G for general audiencesContains thoughtless stepsisters and a rather cavalier attitude towards transmogrifying rodentia to be…
Read MoreWe didn’t get the idea of a crew boarding a derelict spaceship in a vacuum — wait, that didn’t come out right… Our live production of Nostromo 2: Electric Alien Boogaloo is based on the many tales of crews exploring derelict spacecraft, which inevitably leads to mayhem. Well the folks over at Generation Films know…
Read MoreTune in to WERA-LP 96.7 FM just about now (4:00pm ET) for the latest addition to our series Through the Looking Glass. The iconic French version of a fairy tale which has variants going back centuries in many parts of the world. Don’t worry: this has all the quality step-family shenanigans you’re seeking. LISTEN TO…
Read MoreAs we continue to try and learn more about audio engineering ourselves (always more things to learn) and since we’re clearly fans of space exploration (hello, Rogue Tyger), this article about Alexandria Perryman and her work as a live broadcast engineer for NASA was pretty darn cool. Check it out!
Read MoreThe English fairy tale of an enterprising young boy, a castle in the clouds, and some giants. It’s perhaps the best known of a series of “Jack Tales.” LISTEN TO THE EPISODE Powered by RedCircle Length: 24:07 Rated AD-G for general audiencesContains a cruel and murderous giant, a conspiratorial and duplicitous giantess, and broken necks, which arguably…
Read MoreSince we’re deep in the land of fairy tales with, it felt like a good time to some of the considerations we’ve had in adapting the stories you’re hearing on Through the Looking Glass. For the most part, we’ve tried to keep to the straight text from a particular translation or version wherever possible. There…
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