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In 1970 KRAB received its first grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (Guide 213, pg 6), and, in Jun 1971 (Guide 221, pg 4), became eligible to broadcast programming from National Public Radio. If you should any have additional information about radio drama or theatre on KRAB, please let me know. For a little more about what brought the curtain down on Earplay, click here or scroll down "NEA, Programming in the Arts: An Impact Evaluation, Karen Shapiro, Sep 1980". By 1978 CPB had withdrawn its funding, and KCET, unable to attract other support, abandoned the project in 1979. Between 19 the NEA spent about $2.5 million on Earplay, with CPB, the Ford Foundation, KCET, Minnesota Public Radio, and others chipping in another $7.5 million. The producers "commissioned playwrights such as Edward Albee, Arthur Kopit, Archibald MacLeish, and David Mahmet to develop original material for the series". In 1979 Kathy Bottoms received a grant from the Seattle Arts Commission to produce the KRAB Radio Theater.įrom 1974 to 1979 KRAB also aired productions from Earplay, National Public Radio's foray into radio drama. There were productions by the Group Action Theatre (John Gilbert, Jim Wilkie, Susan Reid), Bijou Theatre, UW Reader's Theater, Theatre Group of Seattle, Helix Community Theatre (Paul Crane), Voxamerica Readers' Theater, Empty Space, The Womyn's Theatre, the Family Bathtub Theatre, and the Conservatory Theatre Company. These included Greg Palmer's Roachdale Radio Players, which, with Raymond Jarvi directing, seems to have gotten serious when it morphed into The Breadline Theatre. Over the years there were a number of Seattle and KRAB groups that produced drama or theatrical readings for KRAB. Return to KRAB Audio Archives main menu The KRAB Audio Archiveįrom the beginning KRAB broadcast drama, either "theatre" or the vaguely less posh "theater", some coming from commercial recordings, other from KPFA, including the KPFA Reader's Theater and Eric Bauersfield's Black Mass, WBAI's Mind's Eye Theatre, and the BBC. KRAB-FM, Seattle - Programs: Radio Theatre, drama, and Earplay from NPR