Recording the opening scenes of “The Most Dangerous Game” The Most Dangerous Game,” originally written by Richard Connell, and adapted anew by Fred (with some inspiration by the original “Escape” script) is now available for download. In this story, wealthy big-game hunter Sanger Rainsford falls off his boat in the middle of the Caribbean and [...]

On September 13 FinalRune completed field recordings for our latest effort, a re-creation of classic OTR tales done in collaboration with the Mad Horse Theater Company… And it was rad! FinalRune’s dedication to field recording sent us to some interesting locations on this one… “The Most Dangerous Game,” a story of a hunter who becomes [...]

This Halloween, FinalRune Productions teams up with WMPG and members from the Mad Horse Theater Company for a live spooktravanganza at the University of Southern Maine. The 2-hr live radio event will feature original work from writers Fred Greenhalgh, Mark LaFlamme, Kevin Anderson, and Roger Gregg. The stories range from the darkly funny to the [...]

Speaking of new work, FinalRune is extremely excited to announce our collaboration with the Mad Horse Theatre Company, Portland, Maine’s premier ensemble theater company with over 20 years experience bringing classic and offbeat plays to the Maine stage. They’ve done such works as The Children’s Hour, The History Boys, Bug, Pillowman, Of Mice and Men, [...]

Fred shows off his new Ogle with Master of Ceremonies, Jerry Stearns As previously announced, FinalRune’s production of Waiting for a Window won the Gold Ogle Award, an international audio drama award for Best Fantasy Audio Drama. The “Ogle” is so named for Charles Ogle, who played the first Frankenstein’s creation in Edison’s silent 1910 [...]

FinalRune is proud to announce that our latest play, Waiting for a Window, has won the Gold Ogle award. The Ogle is one of the most prestigious radio drama awards available and has been won by the likes of Crazy Dog Audio Theater, The Willamette Radio Workshop, AM/FM Theater (The Grist Mill), and the Colonial [...]

FinalRune is proud to announce that producer/writer Fred Greenhalgh’s short play, “A Drink Before the Dark,” has won in the “You Have Five Minutes” short audio drama script contest. The play will be produced with the other winners at The Filling Station Arts Center the week of June 15. The show is a one hour [...]

Well, it’s been a quiet couple of months since the release of Waiting for a Window and, lest the quiet be confused for inaction, I’ve decided it was time to start building a regular dose of content for FinalRune’s fans, cast, and supporters. The creation is RuneScapes, a new monthly (I hope) newsletter updating, if [...]

FinalRune Productions today announced a deliberately non-exclusive content distribution deal with Echo Fiction, the brilliant new audio theater clearinghouse that features streaming downloads of works by dozens of audio drama publishers as well as TONS of behind-the-scenes info, articles, equipment reviews and more. FinalRune is proud to be featured among the likes of Crazy Dog [...]

Waiting for a Window continues to keep sailing, with a freshly cast cast of some FinalRune regulars and new faces — err, voices — to the scene.

After a period of eerie quiet, FinalRune is kicking back into full swing with the upcoming production, “Waiting for a Window.” Auditions are being held this week and production is expected to be in early August — slating the story for a September debut. “Waiting for a Window” marks FinalRune’s second foray into a piece [...]

After over a year of a pay-per-listen download program, FinalRune Productions is now please to announce that all present productions are being offered free through the website (and also through an RSS stream). After much thought and debate, the decision was made that increasing the audience is better than generating extra revenue through MP3 downloads. [...]

Well, things have been quiet since the release of Dark Passenger on Halloween, but we have exciting plans for the New Year, both in terms of audio production and on the site itself. It’s always been a goal for finalrune.com to become more of an audio theater hub/knowledge source, and while my show Radio Drama [...]

The heavens turned black… Demons crept lose from crypts… and Radio Drama Revival had a hell of a Halloween special! And we debuted the eerie Dark Passenger…

After a bit of a summer hiatus (I hope you missed us!) FinalRune is proud to announce the next installment in our line of audio horror stories: the terrifying tale Dark Passenger! An expected Halloween debut is providing the impetus to pull together this truly chilling tale of two boys who head to Downeast Maine [...]

Wow! A great time was had at the National Audio Theater Festival in West Plains, Missouri, with a completely blow-by-blow available on Radio Drama Revival! In short, Fred got to meet tons of audio theater’s most passionate professionals — including the legendary Tom Lopez — as well as lots of young people who are likewise [...]

We’re very excited to announce our first round of hard-copy compact discs, prepared for us by Short Run Music out of Salt Lake City, Utah. We now sit ogling a stack of beautifully designed copies of Fall of the Hero (coupled with The Blind Man’s Confession) and Tales from Williamsville (coupled with Drizzle). In addition [...]

FinalRune Productions is proud to be sending founder/writer/director/producer Fred Greenhalgh off to the Deep Woods (err, Missouri) for the one of a kind, truly remarkable, National Audio Theater Festival. With a collection of top-flight instructors, compelling classroom events, and a group of participants from across the country, the Festival looks to be an excellent opportunity [...]

We’re proud to announce that our latest production (and the finest to date, if we say so ourselves) is now online for you to download! Check out Fall of the Hero, the tale of a mighty warrior who faces his most dangerous enemy yet: himself.

It was a frenetic, cramped, mac-and-cheese driven five hour session pulled together in the middle of finals week for our cast of USM students, but when the dust settled, Fred left the studio with complete vocal tracks for the upcoming fantasy drama Fall of the Hero. Now comes the fun part — post-production! Layering sound [...]

FinalRune Productions is proud to announce a fully-redeveloped website using a WordPress backend as a powerful content management system (CMS). The original site, developed in php, was very adequate but Fred decided that the interoperability, ease of assigning categories, hierarchy, and structure made WordPress a great way to keep the site manageable as FinalRune grows. [...]