Wil Wheaton, Mara Wilson and More Featured in 100th Episode of WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE
By: BWW News Desk Dec. 14, 2016
Welcome To Night Vale - one of the longest-running and most downloaded fiction podcasts of all time - today announced the upcoming airdate of its 100th episode.
Written and created by Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink, Welcome To Night Vale has been described as "NPR from the Twilight Zone," and, in the five years since it first hit the airwaves, the series regularly garners both critical praise and a cult following for its quirky and mysterious tales of the eponymous small desert town.
The 100th episode of Welcome To Night Vale, slated for release on December 15th, will incorporate every guest vocal performance heard on the show - including Wil Wheaton, Mara Wilson, Felicia Day, Dylan Marron, James Urbaniak, Jackson Publick, Jasika Nicole and Hal Lublin.
Welcome To Night Vale can be accessed by subscribing to the podcast on iTunes, Google Play Music, or your favorite podcast app.
Listen to a preview of the 100th episode below!
Continuing the celebration into 2017, the Welcome To Night Vale team will also kick off a live West Coast tour of "Ghost Stories," which will take the stage between February 12th through 20th, and mark the last time the show will be performed. Narrator Cecil Baldwin will be on hand to share tales of dark hooded figures with unknown powers, mysterious lights in the air and the foreboding dog park. Rounding out the cast will be Erin McKeown on hand as - "The Weather" - along with special guests and live music from Disparition.
Scheduled dates include:
Sunday, February 12 Las Vegas, NV Nicholas J. Horn Theatre
Monday, February 13 San Diego, CA The Observatory North Park
Tuesday, February 14 Santa Barbara, CA Lobrero Theatre
Wednesday, February 15 Sacremento, CA Crest Theatre
Saturday, February 18 Eugene, OR McDonald Theatre
Monday, February 20 Vancouver, BC Chan Center for Performing Arts
Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased here.
Inspired to "keep finding new ways to tell stories within what is still a very young medium," Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink launched the Night Vale Presents network in early 2016, continuing their mission to encourage independent podcasting from writers and artists who haven't worked in the format before. The cornerstone of the network is Welcome to Night Vale, which has grown to be one of the most downloaded podcasts in the world since its debut in 2012. There have now been over 140 million downloads of the twice-monthly show, which is presented in the style of community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, featuring local weather, news, announcements from the Sheriff's Secret Police, mysterious lights in the night sky, dark hooded figures with unknowable powers, and cultural events.
Fink and Cranor's other original series -Alice Isn't Dead and Within The Wires- both debuted in the iTunes top 10 and have gone on to critical and listener acclaim. Additional podcasts will follow under the Night Vale Presents network in 2017 from the Night Vale artistic team and from other artists with a similar vision for independent, original podcasting. For more information, go to www.nightvalepresents.com.
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