New Reviews: Audio Theater

Colleen Delaney has mastered leading a cast narrating nonstop sci-fi thrillers. The Generations Trilogy features groups of teens who awaken after centuries of sleep to an unknown world filled with dangerous creatures. Delaney delivers the narrative and portrays Em Savage as she becomes the leader of a ragtag gang of survivors. Bradley Smith portrays Bishop, a chest-thumping... Read More

With her usual sly energy, quick wit, and sexy charm, narrator Claudia Christian once again portrays one of the galaxy's favorite detectives--Anne Manx. In this seventh stand-alone comic episode, Anne takes a tumble, starts seeing double, and ends up having to go to another planet and jump through an inordinate number of hoops to renew her P.I. license. Luckily, she has the... Read More

This compilation of five short stories features Jig the Goblin, who must survive ghosts, fire spiders, and treasures, to name a few of his adventures. Each action-punk story is imbued with killing and lots of tongue-in-cheek humor. Michael John Casey narrates many of the tales in a steady no-nonsense voice, while Marni Penning adopts a brisk pace and Scottish accent. The final... Read More

Colleen Delany narrates this complicated story of neo-Nazis, drug dealing, rape, and murder, set in Texas in 1944 and the present day. Fifth-generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong investigates mysterious deaths that lead back to Armand Fisker, who was marketing a bioweapon and was possibly descended from a Nazi prisoner. She's also involved with Cort Wesley Masters, who is her... Read More

In a steady voice, Colleen Delany helps narrate this space opera set in 2205. The Earth Mercenary Corps Ship PUFFERFISH is in trouble when a virus kills the Krakau and turns humans into mindless cannibals. Narrator Jessica Ball imbues Lt. Marion "Mops" Adamopoulos with effervescence as she leads her intrepid janitors who make up the shipboard hygiene and sanitation team. A full... Read More

This rambunctious ensemble production is an adaptation of Terry Pratchett's 37th Discworld novel. An oddly polite stranger, portrayed by Keith Wickham, arrives in the grimy capital city of Ankh-Morpork. He's just in time to help rewrite the rules of soccer, introduce a gorgeous young woman to the world of dwarfian fashion modeling, eat a few pies, and, of course, skewer the... Read More