Old-time radio drama meets 21st-century hip graphic novel on stage at UNR

The original idea for The Intergalactic Nemesis (a wacky live-action graphic novel performed on stage with simple scripts, a couple actors, some crazy noises), all started in a coffee shop in Austin, Texas.

It’s a whole lot bigger than that now: Enter a sound-effects genius, an emotion-wielding keyboardist, three actors voicing tons of wacky characters, with 1,200 vintage-cool illustrations projected over the stage, all telling the story like a 1930s radio play with decidedly 21st-century spins.

As part of its current world tour, The Intergalactic Nemesis: Target Earth Live-Action Graphic Novel is set to invade Reno to cap the University of Nevada, Reno's 2014-15 Performing Arts Series season, Thursday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building on N. Virginia St. The plot for this amazing mash-up of live over-the-top-audio-drama-meets-cool-comic-book?

A Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter, an evil hypnotist, a time-traveling librarian, alien sludge monsters, outrageous overacting, horrific accents, and sounds for EVERYTHING. (Insert audience advisory here if you can't take creative wacky stuff.)

“... a big-hearted homage to old-time radio drama... melds the retro appeal of radio serials with the cutting-edge cool of the graphic novel," according to the The Wall Street Journal.

For more about The Intergalactic Nemesis, visit www.theintergalacticnemesis.com
Tickets: Adult $24/ Senior $20 (age 62 and over) / Students and Youth (ages 3-17) $12

For tickets and more about the Performing Arts Series visit www.unr.edu/pas. Parking is free in the University's Brian J. Whalen Parking Complex, just north of the Church Fine Arts Building and south of Lawlor Events Center.

Tickets may be purchased in person (without a convenience fee) at Lawlor Events Center Box Office, 1500 No. Virginia St., lower level, open weekdays from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., or (with a convenience fee) at www.unr.edu/pas . For more information about the University's Performing Arts Series, call (775) 784-4278, email pas@unr.edu or visit www.unr.edu/pas.

For additional performance, gallery and arts events at the University of Nevada, Reno, visit www.unr.edu/arts. And follow the Performing Arts Series at the University of Nevada, Reno on Facebook!

While the Performing Arts Series prides itself in bringing some of the finest performers in the world to the University of Nevada, Reno each season, occasionally an unforeseen occurrence calls for an artist to cancel a performance. If a cancellation requires us to schedule another performer, the series will always seek to substitute a comparable artist with similar credentials and performance standards within a related genre.

The Performing Arts Series is presented by the University of Nevada, Reno School of the Arts and Extended Studies, who wish to thank these great supporters: The Associated Students of the University of Nevada and the Graduate Student Association; the Nevada Arts Council, a state agency; National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; the City of Reno Arts and Culture Commission; Western States Arts Federation; the Fulton Fund; the Edna B. and Bruno Benna Excellence in the Fine Arts Endowment; and Sierra Arts. Accommodations for guest artists have been provided by Circus Circus Hotel and Casino and by Silver Legacy Resort Casino.

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