BARRY COURTER: Lisa, you know how Garrison Keillor used to take listeners to a mythical place that they remembered growing up in or wished they had grown up in? “Welcome to Night Vale” is a multimedia sensation that is nothing like that.
LISA DENTON: Ha. I love it when you fake me out like that. It’s like when you’re a passenger in a car and the driver turns to face the rear window like he’s going to back up and then drives forward. Gets me every time.
BARRY: Or the “Do you know where the old Red Food Store was on Brainerd Road? Don’t go that way. It’s the other way.”
LISA: Love that one, too. So, yes, as you were saying, “Welcome to Night Vale” is coming to the Walker Theatre on Thursday. It’s a modern podcast being done live on stage like an old-timey radio show. Very cool.
BARRY: It’s a twice-monthly podcast with an emcee, actors and a storyline about a small desert town where pretty much every conspiracy theory we’ve ever heard actually happens. Complete with local weather and news reports, announcements from the sheriff’s office, as if they can be believed, and all kinds of weird shenanigans.