Bergenstages Radio Theatre: Recent Episodes
Jim Bumgardner
Classic Radio shows brought back to life by the actors from Bergenstages at Bergen Community College in Paramus, NJ.
Should Diana Barker believe in vampires? Are her dreams about Richard Barker just too fantastic? Who is Richard? Her living husband, or undead one...?
Hans is a knight-errant who has been sent off on a quest by his betrothed. In the forest he meets and falls in love with Ondine, a water-sprite who is attracted to the world of mortal man.
Join us as we explore the supernatural in this week's episode entitled "Wherever You May Be"
Bergenstages Radio Theatre invites you to listen to our latest episode, "The Vengeful Corpse." Our play tells the story of a woman who was burned as a witch in seventeenth-century Salem and has now returned to seek revenge.
Mr. Jennings moves back into his old room after his wife's death. But there's something strange going on up there.
From the thrill-packed pages of Agatha Christie's unforgettable stories of corpses, clues and crime, Bergenstages Radio theatre now brings you, complete with bowler hat and brave mustache, your favorite detective, Hercule Poirot!
Join us as Bergenstages Radio Theatre presents the captivating sci-fi drama, "A Pail of Air." The story is narrated by a ten-year-old boy living on Earth after it has become a rogue planet, having been torn away from the Sun by a passing "dark star". The loss of solar heating has caused the Earth's atmosphere to freeze into thick layers of "snow"
he's anything but 'sweet' in today's Bergenstages Radio Theatre play, "Sweet Sixteen" by Robert Libott and Frank Burt. Janie is so caught up in herself that she completely misses her chance to have a wonderful life. Our show features Stella Berrettini as Janie, Erin Harris as Mother, Leigh Jonaitis as Helen and Ray Parente as Walter. (orig. air date: Aug. 1, 1948).
Laura Jesson is a happily married woman until a chance encounter in a train station café draws her to Dr Alec Harvey. Literally bumping into each other brings temptation, danger and guilt into their lives and a doomed love affair ensues...
A thwarted woman plans a horrible revenge...and succeeds by the force of her powerful will.
Bergenstages Radio Theatre welcomes back several of the cast members from our 2018 production of "Guy and Dolls" to bring us this 'gangster' Christmas radio show, "Out for Christmas." How far will he go to seek revenge?
It's Christmas Eve and Perry, a top notch reporter is about to go celebrate, that is until he's given an assignment: The wife of the managing editor wants two goats and a red sled in time for Christmas. All plans have been tossed out the window as Perry & Al, a top photographer search all the boroughs of New York City to find a couple of goats!
When an actress has everything she wants except the one thing that will make her happy, she runs away to the country to prove that she can be a happy homemaker...if she can only get the one man she truly loves to marry her!
Thunder, Lightening and a Creaky Old House are some of the ingredients for a hauntingly good time in "The Vampire's Desire!"
Happy Haunting Season. Bergenstages Radio Theatre is thrillllllllled to bring you Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher".
Twenty years had passed since the last of the giant migration ships had made it to the surface of Mars bearing its pitiful handful of survivors of the Earth wars. What had twenty years of death and radioactivity done to our belovèd Earth? Listen now as Bergenstages Radio Theatre presents “Dwellers in Silence” from the imagination of Ray Bradbury.
Bergenstages Radio Theatre presents A Man's Home is Her Castle by Gene Clark. In this hilarious story of love and confusion Dick Murray is an amateur radio operator and his wife Jane collects tropical fish, nice hobbies both of them except that Dick spends more time with his radio than he does with Jane. So while he sits in their one room apartment busily tuning in Jane is making final preparations to tune out!
In the lab, Dr. Baumeister has created a living being that continues to grow and feed. Who will be it's next victim?
Join us for today's Bergenstages Radio Theatre's suspenseful drama, "Three Sides to a Story" by Wyllis Cooper. Just like there are three sides to a lovers triangle...there are also three sides to their story.
Bergenstages Radio Theatre presents "The Veldt," a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury adapted for the radio in which the Hadleys grow concerned when their children's virtual entertainment room begins reflecting violent fantasies.
Bergenstages Radio Theatre brings you "The Bachelor and the Fox Terrier," a story of a man, his dog, and an office romance and is written by Helen Wald and Bud Lesser.
The ugly side of Hollywood shows itself on this return flight from Chicago to Hollywood. Will "divine intervention" change them or will their lives remain unaffected and selfish?
Today's Bergenstages Radio Show is a delightful comedy about a newlywed couple who have an automobile accident and both end up with amnesia - not remembering that they are married and certainly not with the name 'Mr. & Mrs. Goober!'
"The last man on earth sat alone in a room...there was a knock at the door!" Enjoy Bergenstages Radio Theatre's production of Fredric Brown's "The Last Man on Earth."
To celebrate Independence Day, Bergenstages Radio Theatre presents a section from Robert E. Sherwood's magnificent play, "Abe Lincoln in Illinois.
Martin Ames sees something terrifying in the window in the apartment directly across the street from his apartment...is he seeing things or is there something else happening?
Bergenstages Radio Theatre brings you a story that children for many generations have loved, a warm and tender portrait that you may all remember, Louise May Alcott’s “Little Women."
Bergenstages Radio Theatre brings you a gangster/noir episode in "Desert Fury." The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.
In this week's episode, Bergenstages Radio Theatre explores what 'might' have happened in the Garden of Eden those many years ago!
Are you afraid of the dark? Do you see things moving in the shadows? You are not alone... Leave a light on as you listen to the Bergenstages Radio Theatre production of "The Shadow People."
While test flying a rocket ship into the outer limit of our atmosphere, a test pilot encounters and alien ship. What do they want? Will anyone believe him?
Set in an asylum, a world of isolation and despair, Bergenstages Radio Theatre brings hope and promise in this episode
The classic love story by Emily Brontë comes to life again in today's episode as we tell the story of Cathy and Heathcliff and an eternal love for one another.
In today's comedy, a wife is tired of being the third angle in a love triangle and so she takes matters into her own hands!
We are introduced to Marie Curie the woman and Madame Curie the scientist in this episode that is based on the biography written by her daughter Eve Curie.
Can Peg find love and friendship in a world so foreign to her own? A world or wealthy Englishmen and women instead of her poor Irish roots.
In this classic HG Wells sci-fi thriller, two men travel to the year 100,080 and find that man has survived...or have they?
Three men on a remote lighthouse island are suddenly invaded by a ship wreck with hundreds of thousand of rats who want only one thing - them!
A sci-fi thriller! A man wakes up and everyday is the same day but he's the only one who knows it until he runs into a friend on the bus that has discovered the same thing. When they discover the tunnel underneath their city they discover the truth.
A town's 'tradition' will win out over science and logic in this episode...someone will ultimately 'lose' in this lottery.
The hunter becomes the hunted in this thrilling episode of man vs. man and the ultimate game!
When a woman would rather be her daughters best friend rather than just her mother...boundaries are crossed and have unintentional consequences.
A melodrama about two brothers who inherit a haunted mansion in ole' Louisiana...haunted by a beautiful vampire!
Three college girls spend a snowy weekend in the country. How could they have known they were dancing on graves with all that snow? The poltergeist knew...
Earth has had several unsuccessful attempt from alien invaders...until now. A meteor is discovered and cracked open to release 'The Meteor-Man!'
She's all alone at home, confined to her bed and she overhears a murder plot when the wires get crossed on her telephone...but no one will believe her...
Can opposites finally attract? As two secret pen pals soon discover that they are rivals at work.
If he comes clean and tells the authorities that the man they just buried is really alive, then they'll know he robbed the body! Will his conscience let him get away with not telling?
Have you ever wanted to chuck it all and go live in a Department Store...far off the grid? Well, don't be surprised if you find you aren't alone. You will never look at a mannequin again in the same way after this episode!
Today we disappear into the world of Damon Runyon and ask, "can a guy every trust his doll?!"
What do you do when everything outside your world has been closed off, disappeared and unexplained? Start over....?
Even in a tough real estate market...there's always someone who will buy a haunted house!
When you are asked to leave your world and everything behind to venture into a world of the unknown...do you dare go?
Another stately home of England is haunted...will the ghost be too much for the American family staying there?
Have you ever wanted a second chance with the one that got away? Listen to this week's episode...