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Miss Evolution
 In this musical comedy, Miss Kansas, Patience Terpsichore, claims that evolution is true while running for Miss America. This sets off a firestorm of protest. She turns to an old family friend, Professor Gil Drinka, for advice. He takes Patience on a whirlwind tour of Americana laying out the arguments for evolutionary theory, encountering various characters along the way, like Big Foot and the Lady Lizardaire, to help him illustrate his points. Patience gives up her crown, but decides to devote herself to the study of paleontology.
Moving Pictures
 This is a marvelous set of short stories. The subject of this collection is the interaction of movies and real life. As with our other short story collections, the Tsunami Radio Theater utilizes a relatively small cast (6 actors) to take on dozens of roles, from Hollywood celebrities to common folk. Each of the pieces is a comic gem that could stand on its’ own. For example, “Screenwriter” is the tale of a screenwriter who returns to her New England hometown after scoring an Oscar for best original screenplay. The only problem is she used the people in the village as the models for her story. In a twist similar to a Twilight Zone episode, the young writer finds that the movie theater is showing a film that seems to be a bio-pic of her life, all the embarrassing parts on display. This is essential listening for anyone who loves the movies!
Painted Desert
 The protagonist of this story is sixty-five-year-old Lorraine Prior, who has retired to Sedona, Arizona, to paint the stunning landscapes and relax. Her adult children have other plans. They quickly move in, placing both emotional and financial burdens on their mother. The issues of child adoption and medical care for infants play a prominent role in the story. In the long run, Lorraine decides to lay down some ground rules so that the family can live together in harmony.
Pax Romana
 Two brothers fight for land reform in ancient Rome. Based on a true story, Tiberius and Gaius Grachus, two sons of the noble Cornelia, try to bring some justice to the lives of Roman warriors who, when returning from the wars, find their farms sold to pay the taxes. The Tsunami Radio Theater takes you back to the year 361 BC with a beautifully textured audio drama. You will be swept up in this saga filled with gladiators and priestesses of Isis. Lend your ears to this audio treat!
Petroglyphs
 No one knows for sure whether aliens, paranormal activity and out-of-bodies experiences are real or not, but this musical comedy attempts to answer those questions and more. A skeptic and a true believer are draw into a murder investigation in a kiva somewhere near Roswell, New Mexico. They visit Mormons, the Georgia O’Keefe Museum and a gambling palace all in an attempt to solve the murder. Great songs!
Roxanna Brown
 In this drama based on a real life story, Roxanna Brown is a young woman who falls in love with ancient Asian ceramics. After receiving her journalism degree from Columbia in 1966, she heads to Vietnam to pursue her passion. Using her journalism credential (she was the youngest credentialed war correspondent at the time) Roxanna divides her time between covering stories and motorcycling off to the countryside looking for ancient temples and kiln sites. After the war, she went on to school in Hong Kong while starting an art publication and flying around the world to appraised collections of Asian art. Her world came crashing down when she was kicked out of the country for her addiction of opium. This production traces Roxanna’s dramatic life story in a nonlinear, multi-faceted fashion.
Stieglitz
 In the second part of our Georgia O’Keeffe trilogy, the young artist starts her long relationship with the older photographer, Alfred Stieglitz. Exhausted and ill from the swine flu, Ms. O’Keeffe lets the established artist take her in and nurse her back to health. They seem the picture of perfect love, until his infidelity drives her to an asylum and an examination of her life-style. She starts spending months away from New York in Taos, New Mexico where she befriends dozens of artist who have settled there to paint and write about the remarkable landscape. Talmadge Ragan plays Georgia O’Keeffe in this searing drama.
The Property of…
 Finding himself in tremendous debt and in an unhappy marriage, Spencer Martingale, a fencing instructor, decides to fake his own death. This rash act leads to comic consequences when his wife, Larissa, quickly sells his name and his company to a large corporation. When fencing takes off in America with the success of a hit movie, Spencer wants his life back, but it’s too late. With a strong cast, lead by Tony Kee, this cautionary tale is a funny romp through the world of copyright law.
Vacant Trailers
 24 cleverly-written movie trailer spoofs! The Tsunami Radio Theater presents this set of highly polished trailers for movies that will never be made (hopefully). Come along for the ride as our talented group of voice-over actors explores various movie genres including Sci-Fi, British Romance, Japanese Anime, Creature Features and Horror. Over 250 voiced characters! You’ll also enjoy three bio-pics; Jackie O, Cleopatra and Ansel Adams. For those of you who love the movies, this collection is a must!
Wild or Tame
 In this collection of 18 short stories, “Wild or Tame”, the Tsunami group explores impulses we all have to lead a quiet, domestic life, or explore our wild side. These are contemporary stories dealing with everything from the NBA finals to park rangers to Woodstock. We all follow our hearts occasionally, and the humor in these all too familiar tales, springs from the conflict between wanting to behave and the urge to go hog wild!
Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus
 Two classic plays from ancient Greece are presented by our wonderful cast of actors and singers. Enter the realm of blood-feuds and mysticism from the master dramatist, Sophocles. In Oedipus Rex, we find a haughty and powerful king, who came to power in Thebes by answering the riddle of the Sphinx, faced with a plague on the city. It’s only through a voyage of self-discovery that he comes face-to-face with his own destiny. Oedipus at Colonus, finds the king now a blind beggar and outcast, looking for his final resting place. His children are forced into defending their dreadful legacy. These two powerful plays were written around 400 BC and it’s a miracle that they have survived. But I think if you listen to them, you’ll see why.
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In this light-hearted comedy, the Garden of Eden is inhabited by not one Adam, but two! As Adam #1 and Eve get booted out of the Garden, the other Adam stays behind to play lawn bowls with the Serpent. The hilarity continues as the Serpent tries to seduce Adam #2 in an attempt to get him banished as well. The talented cast including Adam Emperor, Talmadge Ragan, Tony Kee and Isaac Wade have a blast while reinventing this Biblical story.
These stories really are classics! They cover much ground in an effort to show the length and breath of cults in America. From the desert commune to the Shaker community of the 1830’s, each story captures the fanatic ideologues that use mind-control techniques to keep their supplicants humble. The Tsunami Radio Theater used a small cast to immortalize the cult leaders and the people who fall under their spell.
This moving drama follows the career of one of America’s most beloved authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald. From his wild college years to his courtship and marriage to his flamboyant wife, Zelda, the cast brings to life his struggles during the years of the Roaring Twenties and the Depression years of the 1930s. His drinking, his loyalty to his wife who slips into insanity and his mercurial rise to fame with such stories as The Great Gatsby and Bernice Bobs Her Hair, are all explored. He and Zelda were thought of as the “It” couple of the 1920s, and many of his stories are based on their exploits. The great cast, headed by Dave Huber as F. Scott Fitzgerald, follows all the nuances of this brilliant writer whose life spun out of control. A true American classic!