Downloadable audio. 

A host of radio plays will begin production this week, including a Western, a Sherlock Holmes period piece, and four John Longenbaugh plays. Directors Megan Pasternak and Suzan Brawnlyn were joined by producer Shannon Haugland of the Greater Sitka Arts Council Community Theater to talk about the staging of stories with sound.

Tryouts for Greater Sitka Arts Council’s radio theater will be 6 to 8:30 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday, October 21 and 23, in Rasmuson Center. Rehearsals will begin Monday, November 3, and will be 6 to 8 p.m. The event will be staged Saturday, December 6, at the Performing Arts Center. For more information, call Suzan Brawnlyn at 747-3183 or Megan Pasternak at 738-2290.