The series consisted of a single actor or actress performing in front of a black curtain, or bare stage, with recorded music cues, in an example of monodrama.
Some sources suggest this series, produced by Lawrence Menkin (1911-2000), also aired episodes of One Man's Experience and One Woman's Experience, both also produced by Menkin.
[1] In 1953, in a series of episodes of Monodrama Theater, actor Jack Manning performed a one-man show of Hamlet.
Jack Gould, a television critic for the New York Times, praised Manning's performance as Hamlet, calling him "inventive, versatile and, above all, natural."
Gould also noted of Manning at the time that, "He knows his Shakespeare and truly catches the meaning of the lines.