 That same year, WLW (in May) and WGY (in September) sponsored scripting contests, inviting listeners to create original plays to be performed by those stations' dramatic troupes.Listings in The "New York Times" and other sources for May 1923 reveal at least 20 dramatic offerings were scheduled (including one-acts, excerpts from longer dramas, complete three- and four-act plays, operettas and a Molière adaptation), either as in-studio productions or by remote broadcast from local theaters and opera houses.An early British drama broadcast was of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" on 2LO on 25 July 1923

Serious study of American radio drama of the 1920s and early 1930s is, at best, very limited.