Decawatt Playhouse - SFPPN

While a handful of college bands go on to fame and fortune, most of them fade away over time. It’s difficult to keep things rolling when people move away for their own careers and families. This was ...

Any college band worth its salt had to be able to perform in front of a live audience, and Syd Sustain was no exception. Here’s a selection from the “Syd Died Today" concert at the college arts cente...

Moving on with Syd Sustain, and a more esoteric album. GCC had it’s own poet laureate in the mid-80’s named T. R. Ashe. Rarely seen in public, Ashe published a series of compositions and became a typ...

Moving on with Syd Sustain, and two more of their albums: “Paranoid About the Fuzzies on My Sweater”, and “Syd Drove West”. “Paranoid…" includes more catchy tunes in the electronica vein such as "Gro...

We continue with the discography of the 80’s college band from GCC, Syd Sustain. The Dig Aquacade album includes a set of catchy 80’s pop/electronica such as “Everything Has It’s Place", “Photographs...

When you go to college, you’re gonna have college bands. Electronica was big in the 80's, and anyone with a DX-7 gave it a shot at some point. Four "townies" (locals who attended the school) had put...

WSAJ’s “Theatre of the Air” saved the best for last. WSAJ’s version of Orson Welles Larry Bowald couldn’t resist mounting the classic “War of the Worlds” with a western PA twist. This was an extra le...

WSAJ’s “Theatre of the Air” continues, with the parable “Splash of Water". Craig Munch stars, with Dave Miller, Cat Fithian, Lisa Harris, Bill Koch, Michelle Petrucci, Mark Harrison, and Jack Wen...

WSAJ’s “Theatre of the Air” continues, with the triller “Sorry, Wrong Number”.Cat Fithian stars, with Paul McGill, Ron Carter, Betsy Diedrich, Cheryl Sheely, Dave Miller, Michelle Petrucci, Keith...

WSAJ’s “Theatre of the Air” continues.  It’s back to gothic horror in “The Signal Man”.There’s no cast list in the recording, so I was surprised to hear my own voice as one of the co-stars. I hav...

WSAJ’s “Theatre of the Air” continues.  We go back to the classics for “The Lady or the Tiger”.Larry Bowald plays the king, with Lisa Hogle, Mark Harrison, Donna Day, Darla Vornberger, and Bill K...

WSAJ’s “Theatre of the Air” continues. This is a special episode, consisting of audio from one-man Samuel Beckett play “Krapp’s Last Tape”.Keith Parrish, who we previously met on the Unnamed Comedy Sh...

WSAJ’s “Theatre of the Air” continues. Let’s listen to the classic “The Invisible Man”.  The title character is played by the Orson Welles of CRT, Larry Bowald. Lisa Harris, Brenda Kirs...

WSAJ’s “Theatre of the Air” continues. Let’s listen to “The Hitchhiker”, which consists mostly of a monologue by Marc Stewart.Karen Singley, Mark Wilson, Joel Rischl, P.D. Gregg, Jan Leuchte...

WSAJ’s “Theatre of the Air” continues. Oh, Henry, you’re going to enjoy “Yellow Hat, Green Feather”. A gothic horror story with a shrew getting her comeuppance.Lisa Quoresimo, Cathy Fithian, Crai...

WSAJ’s “Theatre of the Air” continues. We’ve got another potboiler with “After Midnight".Cheryl Sheely, Michelle Petrucci, Wendy Annett, Sandra Kressley, Janet White, Mike Johnston, and Craig Mun...