The Generic Radio Workshop is a loosely knit group of radio artists who have been performing vintage radio shows in the Dallas Texas area for just about longer than the Golden Age of Radio existed in the first place.
The Workshop's "Love is On the Air" 2007 show We performed our first radio recreations back in 1981, and have kept going at intervals just for the art and the fun of it. Headed by Larry Groebe, and Julie and Paul Barrett, the GRW has involved many of Dallas/Fort Worth's top vocal talent in their shows. While GRW recreations are aimed especially for the benefit of live "studio" audiences, they have also been heard on radio stations throughout the Southwest. Associated for years with the National Museum of Commuications in Dallas, the GRW's high point was perhaps it's 50-years-to-the-day recreation of "War of The Worlds" which was aired over the Texas State Network. The show was so realistic that at least one listener tuned past it because he thought he was hearing the 1938 original!If you're interested in bringing back the long-lost art of radio drama (and comedy, and variety, and...) please feel free to contact us! The Golden Age of Yesteryear...lives again!
What we sound like in performance:
Audio and performance quality varies - the enthusiasm doesn't.
(Many of the science fiction convention productions were workshops introducing amateur actors to radio)
Return With Us Now - Frisco Community Theater May 20, 2006
Planet Man! - SoonerCon, Oklahoma City, July 15-16, 2006
Sam Shade, Private Mouth - FenCon 3, Dallas TX, September 23, 2006
The Shadow - Vintage Radio and Phonograph Society, Mesquite TX, November 2006
Love Is On The Air - Lewisville Community Theater, February 2007
Flash Gordon - SoonerCon, Oklahoma City, June 10, 2007
The Fentastic 4 - Fencon 4, Dallas TX, September 22, 2007
Michigan Jones and the Crystal Skull and Crossbones - Soonercon, Oklahoma City, June 2008
The Return of Sam Shade - Fencon 6, Dallas TX, October 4, 2008
Some Not-so-recent Performances:
Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon - Stellar Occasion 3, Dallas TX, December 27, 1996
