Parson’s Nose Radio Theater

Wind in the Willows - Chapter One - The Riverbankers

Chapter One - Moley meets the Riverbankers. (13 Minutes) Adaptation by Lance Davis. Performed by Lance Davis and Mary Chalon. Sound by David Bennett. For more about Par

The Emperor's New Clothes!

A narcissistic ruler surrounded by enablers. And a little girl saves the day. The classic 19th Century story by a Danish "National Treasure", Hans Christian Andersen. 

Everyman - A Morality Play

The Summoning of Every Man (40 min.)  "Death! Thou comest when I had thee least in mind!" In the Middle Ages, life was spare and fleeting. Cautionary Christian lessons

"The Skylight Room" by O Henry

O Henry's romantic, 1906 New York story of the innocent and hopeful Miss Leeson, who takes the magical Skylight Room in Mrs. Parker's boarding house. Adapted for radio by

"The Little Fir Tree" by Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen's funny, poignant story of a little fir tree who forgot to live in the moment.  A perfect story for the holidays - a time to reflect on how fortun

The Devil and Daniel Webster!

The legendary battle between the Devil and Daniel Webster, America's greatest jurist before a jury from...you know where. Story by Stephen Vincent Benet. Adapted by Lance

The Couple Who Dote Upon Their Children

Charles Dickens wrote a series of humorous sketches about young couples. Here we have one we have all encountered. Adapted and performed by PNT Artistic Director Lance Da

The Boor!

Anton Chekhov's incisive one-act comedy. A Cossack soldier. A country widow. A debt. "I'll bring her down like a chicken!". Starring Parson's Nose Company members Christi

"The Marriage Proposal" by Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov, Russia's finest playwright, who gave us "The Seagull", "The Cherry Orchard" and "Uncle Vanya", also had a remarkable gift for comedy, as we hear in this on

"Address Unknown" by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

American Kathrine Kressmann Taylor's chilling "correspondence" of two German art dealers, one in San Francisco and one in Munich, during the rise of Hitler. A remarkably

"Quality" by John Galsworthy

Tis a gift to be simple. John Galsworthy, the Nobel Prize winning playwright and novelist who gave us "The Forsyte Saga", tells the story of immigrant bootmakers in 19th

"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

Parson's Nose Radio Theater presents the most popular work of Charles Dickens, the most popular writer of Victorian England. At PNT we emphasize the wonderful descriptive

'Jes Fore Christmas

A delightful poem by Eugene Field (1850-1895), a nationally known Saint Louis/Chicago columnist, and also The Poet Laureate of Children for his work including "Wynken, Bl

The Miser!

Moliere's comic 17th Century masterpiece. Stingy, old Harpagon marries off his children, Elise and Cleante, to save money, and arranges his own marriage to poor young Mar

The Visit

By Hoyt Hilsman. Was it a miscarriage? A short one-act play, part of an ongoing collection by Mr. Hilsman, "Political Rights and Wrongs" which also includes "The Libraria

The Librarian

Another episode of Hoyt Hilsman's collection "Political Rights and Wrongs". which premiered in Parson's Nose Theater's New Play Series in Fall 2022. Now in podcast form.

The Substitute

By PNT Resident Playwright Hoyt Hilsman. Premiering in the Parson's Nose "New Play Series" in November 2022. One of an ongoing series of "Political Plays" by Mr. Hilsman.

The Declaration of Independence

How rarely we listen to the most audacious (and treasonous!) response to oppression in American History! 56 men met in cramped quarters in the hot, muggy, Philadelphia Ju

Our American Cousin

Tom Taylor's popular comic-melodrama, previously overshadowed by its connection to the assassination of America's beloved President, Abraham Lincoln, now "recalled to lif

The Madwoman of Chaillot

Jean Giraudoux's modern fairy tale, written in Nazi-occupied Paris in 1944. Speculators threaten to destroy the neighborhood, and all Paris, by drilling below for oil. Ca