CalArtistsRadioTheatre.org
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California Artists Radio Theatre live performances on cassettes and CDs
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Peggy Webber
California Artist Radio Theatre (CART) was founded by veteran actress, director and producer, Peggy Webber who has performed in more than 8,000 network radio shows, 300 television programs, 100 stage plays and 21 feature films. In the early days of television, Ms. Webber wrote, directed, and performed in "Treasures of Literature," a live weekly series broadcast from KFI in Los Angeles for which she received an award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for Most Popular and Outstanding Production of a Live Drama Series for 1948-49. Since then she has been Artistic Director of seven theatres before founding the California Artists Radio Theatre, and has won 27 National and International awards as a Director-Producer.
L-R: David Warner, Anne Rogers, John Bliss, Parley Baer, John Astin, Peggy Webber (CART's founder and executive director), Elliot Reid, David Pinto (musical composer), Jeanette Nolan, and Marvin Kaplan
CART Yesterday and Today
In 1984, Ms. Webber began her quest to revive radio drama. She began recording radio shows with stars from Network radio and members of her CART Repertory Stage Productions. CART appeared at conventions and at The Press Club fundraiser for the those unemployed due to the closing of the Los Angeles Examiner, and the Mayor's Fund for The Homeless. Both of the latter were live broadcasts as was CART's first 90-minute musical, an adaptation of Ian Whitcomb's book Lotus Land. The early CART radio shows were heard on KUSC where after the first production of Treasure Island, there were three hundred calls to the station requesting more. For 9 years CART was heard in the Los Angeles area on KUSC, KPCC, and KPFK, and has been heard on NPR (National Public Radio) for the past twelve years. Recently CART signed a contract with World Space to send forty hours of programming to Africa, South America, and parts of Asia.
