The Damon Runyon Theatre

The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown

English · Dramatic Readings, Short Stories

The Damon Runyon Theatre brings the colorful world of New York’s Broadway underworld to radio, drawing on the stories of Damon Runyon. Its characters are gamblers, hustlers, show people, and other vivid city dwellers, rendered in Runyon’s distinctive slang and wry, affectionate style.

The program adapts Runyon stories as dramatic radio performances, using dialogue, narration, and sound to turn their streetwise characters and unlikely predicaments into lively scenes. The stories often revolve around loyalty, romance, schemes, and the codes by which people on the margins try to get along.

Runyon’s blend of tough talk and tenderness gives the series its particular charm: the characters may be comic or crooked, but they are rarely treated without sympathy. This recording presents “The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown,” a story from that unmistakable Broadway world.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.