Skirball hosts RFK’s “Journey to Justice” this week

It was among the briefest reigns in pop culture history, but the Golden Age of Radio spanned barely 25 years between the late 1920s and the mid-1950s, when the advent of commercial television rang down the curtain on radio’s theatre of the mind. Future generations of listeners largely lost their opportunity to savor the pleasures of the audio art form. But since 1974, radio drama has been alive and well in Los Angeles thanks to L.A. Theatre Works, a performing arts organization established to produce, promote and preserve radio dramas for entertainment and education.

LATW produces ten new radio plays a year, performing and recording them in front of a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center in Brentwood for later airing on its nationally syndicated radio series, which airs locally in Southern California on 89.3 KPCC every Saturday from 10 pm – midnight. The programs can also be heard as free streaming audio, borrowed from public libraries and purchased on CD or as audio downloads.

This week, L.A. Theatre Works premiers its latest work, “RFK: Journey to Justice,” a new docudrama chronicling Robert Kennedy’s personal and political odyssey through America’s tumultuous civil rights era of the early 1960s. His story offers a compelling narrative of his evolution from conventional political animal into an inspiring leader in pursuit of a higher cause.

The Skirball live performances are now running through Sunday, March 21, 2010 weekday evenings at 8 p.m., with a Saturday matinee at 2:30 p.m. and Sunday matinee at 4:00 p.m., at ticket prices ranging from $20-$48. For further information, call
(310) 827-0889.

Posted 3/18/10