[1] (ARTC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to preserving, promoting, performing, and educating people about the art of audio theatre (radio drama).
ARTC performs live audio drama at a wide variety of events, often with a very specific focus on science fiction,[2] Horror or Fantasy.
They have also performed adaptations of works by H. G. Wells including The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and The Time Machine.
However, several authors who do not have work in the public domain have also given permission either personally or through their estate, including Robert A. Heinlein for adaptations of All You Zombies, The Man Who Traveled in Elephants and The Menace From Earth; Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman for an adaptation of Lord Durndrun's Party; Henry Lee Forest's Special Order and James P. Hogan's Zap Thy Neighbor.
Atlanta playwright Thomas E. Fuller was enlisted as principal writer, and numerous actors from the local theatrical community were cast in the productions.
Soon Henry Howard, owner of Audio Craft, made his facility available to ARTC and came on board as a producer.
That fall ARTC moved to WABE-FM, the local Public Radio station, and ran a full season of thirteen shows.
It ran for five issues and contained plays, reviews of other audio products, and news of interest to the SF audience.
Centauri Express was funded with a grant from the 1986 World Science Fiction Convention, ConFederation, held in Atlanta.
Under Fuller's leadership, ARTC established a troupe of professional and semi-professional actors, writers, directors, and technicians, to create live and in-studio productions of audio drama.
Even during this period ARTC continued to create in-studio audio drama on cassette tape and eventually CDs.
Their 1996 production of H. G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau won a silver Mark Time award for excellence in science fiction audio drama.