For a U.S. audience, Robert Altman's "A Prairie Home Companion" sums up the popular image of radio drama as a quaint but antiquated format. Audio-only plays may have been hugely successful in the ...

Edgar Allan Poe would have appreciated the turbulence created by teeming rain and blustery winds on this June night. But Mary Aversano, 78, not so much -- despite the many Poe radio dramas her acting ...