Night Kitchen Radio Theater is a radio theater company founded and directed by Arthur Yorinks

Arthur Yorinks

Arthur Yorinks has written and directed for opera, theater, dance, film, and radio and is the author of over thirty-five acclaimed and award-winning books, including "Hey, Al," a children's book which earned the Caldecott Medal in 1987....

. It has produced two dramatic radio programs: "Live From The Kennedy Center", featuring original radio plays and adaptations for family audiences; and "@7 The Henry Street

Henry Street

Henry Street can refer to the following streets:*Henry Street , a street in Dublin, Ireland*Henry Street , a street in Manhattan, New York, United States...

 Series", radio adaptations of classic literature. Both series are taped before live audiences and broadcast on XM Satellite Radio

XM Satellite Radio

XM Satellite Radio is one of two satellite radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Radio. It provides pay-for-service radio, analogous to cable television. Its service includes 73 different music channels, 39 news, sports, talk and entertainment channels, 21 regional...

. It now performs live at The New Victory Theater on Broadway in New York City. In addition, it produces new audio content which can be downloaded from spokenwordamerica.com. It has created a new theatrical audio version of A Christmas Carol, written and directed by Arthur Yorinks starring Peter Gerety along with other Broadway performers.

Series episodes:

• For "Live from the Kennedy Center": The Emperor's New Clothes
  The Emperor's New Clothes
  "The Emperor's New Clothes" is a short tale by Hans Christian Andersen about two weavers who promise an Emperor a new suit of clothes that is invisible to those unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent...
  
  , Seek, The Nose, The End of the Beginning
  The End of the Beginning (play)
  The End of the Beginning is a one-act play by Sean O'Casey.It is a comedy set in rural Ireland. A couple argue about whether men's or women's work is more difficult, and swap places....
  
  , Pinocchio
  Pinocchio
  The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi, written in Florence. The first half was originally a serial between 1881 and 1883, and then later completed as a book for children in February 1883. It is about the mischievous adventures of Pinocchio , an...
  
  , Harry and Lulu, The Magician’s Boy, The Fisherman and His Wife
  The Fisherman and His Wife
  The Fisherman and His Wife is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale no. 19. It is Aarne-Thompson type 555, the fisherman and his wife. Its theme was used in The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish, a 1835 poem by Aleksandr Pushkin. Mrs Ramsey reads the story to James, her son in...
  
  , Sherlock Holmes
  Sherlock Holmes
  Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...
  
  , Clever Bill, Hey, Al
  Hey, Al
  Hey, Al is a book written by Arthur Yorinks and illustrated by Richard Egielski. Released by Farrar Press, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1987.-Synopsis:...
  
  , Bad Boy, and Christmas in July/The Flying Latke

• For "@7 The Henry Street Series": Aristophanes
  Aristophanes
  Aristophanes , son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete...
  
  ' Lysistrata
  Lysistrata
  Lysistrata is one of eleven surviving plays written by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War...
  
  , Kafka's Metamorphosis
  Metamorphosis
  Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation...
  
  , Dickens' Bleak House
  Bleak House
  Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in twenty monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon...
  
  , Abrons' Three Travelers, and Gogol's The Portrait
  The Portrait (short story)
  The Portrait is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, originally published in the short story collection Arabesques in 1835....
  
  

Casts for Night Kitchen Radio Theater productions have included Alice Playten

Alice Playten

Alice Playten was an American actress and singer.-Life and career:Born Alice Plotkin in New York City, Playten began her career in the Broadway musical Gypsy...

, Richard Muenz

Richard Muenz

Richard Muenz is an American actor and baritone who is mostly known for his work within American theatre. Muenz has frequently performed in musicals and in concerts. He has also periodically acted on television.-Biography:...

, Debra Winger

Debra Winger

Mary Debra Winger is an American actress. Three-times an Oscar nominee, she received awards for acting in Terms of Endearment, for which she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress in 1983, and in A Dangerous Woman, for which she won the Tokyo International Film Festival...

, Steven Rattazzi

Steven Rattazzi

Steven Rattazzi is an American actor. He provides the voice for the character of Doctor Byron Orpheus on the Adult Swim animated series The Venture Bros. He has also done some Off-Off-Broadway shows.-External links:*...

, Arliss Howard

Arliss Howard

Arliss Howard is an American actor, writer and film director.-Life and career:Howard was born in Independence, Missouri in 1954, and graduated from Truman High School and Columbia College at Columbia, Missouri. Howard established his career with stand-out roles in Full Metal Jacket and Ruby...

, Karen Kandel, and Ivy Austin

Ivy Austin

Ivy Austin is an American actress, singer, and voice-over artist. Best known for her performances on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion and her Sesame Street voices, Ivy Austin also starred on Broadway in Raggedy Ann.-Early life and education:Ivy Austin is a graduate of the High School of...

. Scripts by Arthur Yorinks

Arthur Yorinks

Arthur Yorinks has written and directed for opera, theater, dance, film, and radio and is the author of over thirty-five acclaimed and award-winning books, including "Hey, Al," a children's book which earned the Caldecott Medal in 1987....

, Richard Abrons, Paul Fleishman, and Walter Dean Myers

Walter Dean Myers

Walter Dean Myers is an African American author of young adult literature. Myers has written over fifty books, including novels and nonfiction works. He has won the Coretta Scott King Award for African American authors five times...

. Music by Edward Barnes

Edward Barnes (composer)

Edward Barnes is an American composer and producer.Edward Barnes studied music composition at the Juilliard School with composers Vincent Persichetti and David Diamond, and at Dartington Hall in Great Britain with composer-conductor Sir Peter Maxwell Davies...

. All episodes directed by Arthur Yorinks

Arthur Yorinks

Arthur Yorinks has written and directed for opera, theater, dance, film, and radio and is the author of over thirty-five acclaimed and award-winning books, including "Hey, Al," a children's book which earned the Caldecott Medal in 1987....

External links

• http://www.nightkitchenradio.com/ Night Kitchen Radio Theater
• http://www.spokenwordamerica.com Spoken Word America