The Damon Runyon Theatre
Social Error
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The Damon Runyon Theatre brings the colorful world of Damon Runyon’s stories to radio, where Broadway characters, gamblers, hustlers, and other vivid personalities navigate schemes, loyalties, and unexpected turns of fortune. Its stories draw on Runyon’s distinctive portrait of New York’s underworld and its lively streetwise characters.
Each installment presents a dramatized story, using performers, dialogue, and sound to bring Runyon’s prose and characters to life. The episode title, “Social Error,” points to a tale from the series’ collection of Runyon adaptations, with the focus on character and situation rather than a continuing plot.
The program’s appeal lies in its colorful voices, brisk storytelling, and affectionate view of people living by their own codes. Runyon’s distinctive language and blend of humor, sentiment, and underworld intrigue give the series a characterful, theatrical listening experience.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.