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By LISA G. CURRIE
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
All you have to do is listen to enjoy the production “On the Air,” playing for one more weekend at Gay Street Theater in Washington.
In fact, if you close your eyes, you can feel yourself moving closer to the old radio on stage — like your grandparents, or even you, may have done, ears glued to the mesh around the speaker, the world on the other side coming alive with voices from around the globe.
“On the Air” brings the radio of yesterday alive.
Broadcasting from “high atop Old Rag Mountain”, the production’s radio station WRAP offers the audience a glimpse into the past, not just with its varied musical offerings but with radio procedures, world history, and personal traumas like love and death, change and progress.
For those over 40, the show is a wonderful series of reruns never repeated before; for those under 40, the play is a guide, a lesson, a look at entertainment before
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