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Comic Book Improv returns to Dragon Con! Come see our amazing troupe of improvisors take your suggestions and turn them into comedy (and comic book) gold!
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Dragon Con 2026 – Saturday Show
In cooperation with the Comics Track, ARTC brings you Mildly Exciting Tales of Astonishment! Ever wonder about the more mundane aspects of superhero (or even supervillain) life? Come explore the extraordinary banalities of life with extraordinary powers with Jonathan Strickland’s hilarious series!
This performance will take place in Hyatt International North!
Dragon Con 2026 – Sunday show
An audio drama triple-threat for our traditional Sunday show at our largest venue. Starting with Paranoirmal Encounters: Hazel’s Holiday by Paige Steadman, we explore the life of an ordinary housecat who just happens to keep her human safe from monsters and spirits and otherdimensional entities. Next up, a steampunk retelling of the classic Hans Christian Anderson story of the Little Matchgirl in Candle Magic by Kelley S. Ceccato. And we finish up with a Dragon Con favorite, Ron N. Butler’s Rory Rammer, Space Marshal: The Angel of Destruction.
Come see audio drama at its finest and remember that There is Adventure in Sound!
This performance will take place in Hyatt Regency VI-VII!
An Atlanta Christmas 2025 – Life University
Performance will take place in the Socrates Cafe!
For one day a year, the Theater of the Mind gives way to a warm hearth and a bowl of gingerbread – and when from the roof there arises a clatter, it’s neither a faceless monster nor a Martian.
It’s Christmas.
In a season awash with Marley’s Ghost from London and Sugarplum Fairies from Germany (written by a Russian composer), the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company brings you back home to the Deep South with a series of stories told in audio to inspire the imagination.
Now in its 26th consecutive year!
This year’s offerings include:
- Rudolphium
- The Legend of the Poinsettia
- Stones in the Belly
- What the Phonograph Told
- Festival of Lights
- A Very Special Hannukah Special
An Atlanta Christmas 2025 – Academy Theatre
For one day a year, the Theater of the Mind gives way to a warm hearth and a bowl of gingerbread – and when from the roof there arises a clatter, it’s neither a faceless monster nor a Martian.
It’s Christmas.
In a season awash with Marley’s Ghost from London and Sugarplum Fairies from Germany (written by a Russian composer), the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company brings you back home to the Deep South with a series of stories told in audio to inspire the imagination.
Now in its 26th consecutive year!
This year’s offerings include:
- Rudolphium
- The Legend of the Poinsettia
- Stones in the Belly
- What the Phonograph Told
- Festival of Lights
- A Very Special Hannukah Special
HEAR Now Festival 2021
Featuring Lady Sherlock and the Case of the Woman in Red by Tony Sarrecchia.
Also includes Mildly Exciting Tales of Astonishment: Interview with Destiny by Jonathan Strickland and Bumpers Crossroads: Grandma’s Diary by Daniel Taylor.
This performance will be live streamed in video and audio to the HEAR Now Festival.
HEAR Now Festival
The Game is Afoot: Game the Fourth – The Ultimate Ultimatum
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We love all of our audiences and look forward to entertaining everyone, but some audiences have a special place in our hearts. 221B Con is one of them. Not least because we pack the house when we go there!
It’s such a ton of fun playing to these dedicated Sherlock Holmes fans. An iconic character, portayed by a variety of actors in a variety of ways, but without having to deal with all the time travel and blue police boxes. For this performance, we commissioned new scripts from Sketch MacQuinor. One was Commonplaces, by Naomi Novik (stay tuned to see if we can run that one on the podcast), and the other was The Game is Afoot: Game the Fourth – The Ultimate Ultimatum.
We also had a special guest for the show, David Nellist!
David was such a good sport about this. We only asked him if he’d appear on stage with us a few hours before show time, but he agreed to do it readily. Right up until the show itself, we were figuring out the logistics of when to have him approach the stage, how to introduce him, and going over his role.
And the fans LOVED it! Next year we hope to have him back in a more substantial (and audible) role, but for this year he honored us by appearing on stage, however briefly, and gamely played along with the joke. Thank you, David!
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31 Years of ARTC: The Call of C’thulhu 2009
Continuing our look back at ARTC’s 31 years (thusfar!) with photos from our live performances. You can get a look at our whole history of combining adventures in sound with the thrill of live performance in our Chronology!
This week we bring you our appearance at the Academy Theatre in Avondale Estates, which featured our 2009 performance of The Call of C’thulhu by H. P. Lovecraft, adapted for audio by Ron N. Butler. Check out all the pictures on our Flickr album.
We’ve performed a lot of different places over the years. Hotel ballrooms. High school auditoriums. Hair salons. But one of our favorites from an acoustic point of view was the Avondale Estates location for the Academy Theatre.
Not too big, not too small, well lit, walls made of hard concrete. Well, maybe that last part wasn’t so great, but you can’t have everything.
At our 2009 performance, not only did we bring everyone the cosmic horror that is Lovecraft’s The Call of C’thulhu, we also brought Brian Phillips’s original audio drama Night Call and Kelley S. Ceccato’s The Worst Good Woman in the World!
We’ve talked before about how we don’t often do costumes, but every so often we just can’t help ourselves.
Be sure to check out our performance calendar to see when you can see us next!
31 Years of ARTC: Dragon Con 2008 part 2 – Not a Typo
We spent a good part of last year documenting our last 30 years through photographs of our live performances. But wouldn’t you know it, we ran out of year before we ran out of pictures! So we’re going to continue on! And don’t forget our Chronology for a look at our 30 (and counting!) years of live performance!
This week we bring you our second appearance at Dragon Con in 2008, which featured a number of short subjects that we dubbed Not a Typo. Check out all the pictures on our Flickr album.
Scheduling difficulties had prevented us from having a second show at Dragon Con for a couple of years, but when we came back we knew we had to bring some great shows.
So we trotted out A Ship Named Francis, Haunter Hunters, Rory Rammer, Space Marshal: The Atomic Graveyard, Wikihistory, and The National Endowment for Space Art.
And, if we do say so ourselves, we totally blew the audience away!
And we’ve been doing two shows at that fine convention ever since! Stay tuned to see what’s in store for this year’s convention. In fact, you could even sign up for the newsletter to keep current!
