W.W.O.W. Radio - Cranston & Spade Theater Company

05/07/2026

Our next virtuyal show ... May 23rd

03/08/2026

At our show last night we announced that Leah Schwartz and Ho**er Campbell, both of whom have performed with The WWOW Radio Mystery Hour in the past several years, will be taking the reins of the company and continuing it (and growing it). Starting in Spetember The NEW WWOW Radio Mystery Hour will be performing at Actors Guild Hall. While they will be utilizing WWOW veterans regularly, the casts will be primarily actors new to the company. The NEW WWOW will bring different characters back from The Golden Age of Radio: Boston Blackie, Michael Shayne, Rocky Fortune, Mr. Keen, Dan Holliday from "Box 13" and others.
There will be other changes along the way as well, but the central purpose of the company will remain the same: to keep the wonderful radio dramas from the Golden Age of Radio alive for modern audiences, and to present them live on stage to give modern audiences a glimpse into how these shows were actually produced and performed.

The company has a new email address to note: [email protected]

We are incredibly happy that a new generation has decided to give us an ongoing legacy. We hope that you will be as supportive of them as you have been with us through the years.

03/07/2026

33 years, over a hundred and fifty performers, over a thousand shows including tours and limited Off-off Broadway runs and countless amazing audience members. Tonight this company performs our last live show. We will keep going with Sam Spade, Richard Diamond and other other characters virtually. But tonight an era ends. All of us involved with Cranston and Spade's "The W.W.O.W. Radio Mystery Hour" thank you for the years of support. It has been an honor to bring these wonderful characters and scripts from The Golden Age of Radio to you for more than three decades.

03/02/2026

This group takes to the stage one last time to recreate some of the best radio mystery dramas from the Golden Age of Radio. While Mark, Martin and Tarantino have been with the company for a couple of years, Tom has been perfroming with WWOW for a decade, Mary, DeLisa and David are celebrating 20 seasons with us, Rebecca and Heather 25 and 26 seasons respectively, Karla 29 seasons, MIchael has been part of WWOW for 32 years (and artistic driector for 28 years) and Steve and Bob since WWOW's first show over 33 years ago. Our Saturday March 7th will be the last live show for this group (for the foreseeable future, at least). We are fully reserved for the performance. We will seat any walk-ins if there are cancellations (no guarantee of that, obviously).
There will be opportunities to hear these perfromers work together again with WWOW virtual performances in the future, and we will post about the virtual shows on our social media accounts.
For those of you who have been a part of our audiences over the last 33 seasons, we would like to send our sincere "thank you" for your support.

02/12/2026

01/11/2026

After 33 seasons and around a thousand performances, The W.W.O.W. Radio Mystery Hour will present our last (at least for the conceivable future) live performance on Saturday March 7th at 6 p.m. with three of our favorites: Richard Diamond, The Shadow and Sam Spade.

12/14/2025

The curtain raiser from our December 13th live performance of The W.W.O.W. Radio Mystery Hour. The first act - The Adventures of Hercule Poirot - and the second act - The Adventures of Philip Marlowe - are both available to see on No Epilogue Production's YouTube Page. Neither the sound nor visual quality are the best, but they are watchable. And Happy Holidays to you all.

12/04/2025

Our December 13th show. Our last live Holiday show and it is going to be a special one. A classic Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot story adapted to radio and an episode of "The Adventures of Philip Marlowe" for which the original recording from 1948 doesn't exist. And a stellar cast.

11/10/2025

Our 31st and Final Season of live shows. Our second to last live show. Our final Holiday live show. Two scripts new to our audience. An Agatha Christie classic and a lost episode from The Adventures of Philip Marlowe. We hope you can join us.