‘Maverick’ play to recall Orson Welles’ final months
Maverick, a new play set during filmmaker Orson Welles' final months, will run February 6 through March 2 at the Connelly Theater in New York's East Village. The play is based on the real-life...
View ArticleOrson Welles play ‘Marching Song’ set for publication
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group of Maryland will publish "Marching Song" in August. The post Orson Welles play ‘Marching Song’ set for publication appeared first on Wellesnet | Orson Welles...
View Article‘Adapting Don Quixote’ opera combines interpretations, Orson Welles...
A planned production of Adapting Don Quixote is being billed as the world's first "supercut-opera," as it will take previous adaptations — from theater, opera, films and song — and build a new work....
View Article‘Moby Dick – Rehearsed’ to be staged throughout summer near LA
"Moby Dick – Rehearsed" runs June 8 through September 29. The post ‘Moby Dick – Rehearsed’ to be staged throughout summer near LA appeared first on Wellesnet | Orson Welles Web Resource.
View ArticleRenovation set at Stony Creek Theatre, site of ‘Too Much Johnson’
The long-awaited renovation of the Stony Creek Theatre, where Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre staged the ill-fated Too Much Johnson in 1938, will get underway Thursday, June 6, in Branford,...
View Article‘Mercury Man’ joins Hamilton Fringe Festival lineup
By RAY KELLY Following its world premiere at The Pearl last summer, Mercury Man: The Last Performance of Orson Welles returns to Ontario for seven shows as part of the Hamilton Fringe Festival 2019 on...
View ArticleTodd Tarbox: ‘Marching Song’ was first flowering of Orson Welles’ liberal...
By RAY KELLY For decades, Todd Tarbox has assisted Orson Welles biographers and scholars by providing them access to the archive of his late grandfather, Roger "Skipper" Hill, headmaster at the former...
View Article‘Moby Dick – Rehearsed’ reading in Staten Island funded by NEA
Staten Island OutLOUD will present a stage reading of the play Moby Dick–Rehearsed by Orson Welles on February 1, 2020. The reading will take place at the Everything Goes Book Cafe and Neighborhood...
View ArticleWelles on the march: Rediscovering ‘Marching Song’ play
By MATTHEW ASPREY GEAR (Marching Song: A Play by Orson Welles with Roger Hill; edited by Todd Tarbox. 178 pp. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.) Like a few other American giants — Mark Twain and Duke...
View Article‘An Evening with Orson Welles’ (and Eartha Kitt), August 1950
Orson Welles, with the support of singer Eartha Kitt and Gate Theatre founders Micheal MacLiammoir and Hilton Edwards, staged An Evening with Orson Welles at three stops in West Germany in August 1950....
View ArticleLegacy Theatre: Performances return to stage where ‘Too Much Johnson’ was born
The Stony Creek Theatre in Branford, Connecticut, where Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre staged the ill-fated Too Much Johnson in 1938, has been reborn as the Legacy Theatre. The post Legacy...
View Article‘Around the World’: Orson Welles, Cole Porter musical subject of podcast
Porchlight Music Theatre will utilize the only surviving recording of a portion of "Around the World.' In addition, Porchlight Artistic Director Michael Weber will talk with Wellesnet administrator Ray...
View ArticleOrson Welles’‘Too Much Johnson’ now online with score, commentary
Orson Welles’ long-believed lost footage shot for the 1938 stage comedy "Too Much Johnson" was preserved by the George Eastman Museum’s Moving Image Department and first shown in 2013. The post Orson...
View Article‘Ides of March’ fitting time to revisit Mercury Theatre’s ‘Caesar’
The Orson Welles-directed "Caesar" was described by one critic as "the most exciting, the most imaginative, the most topical, the most awesome and the most absorbing of the season's new productions."...
View ArticleWPA doc ‘New Deal for Artists,’ narrated by Orson Welles, to be released
The 1981 documentary "New Deal for Artists" is a look back at the WPA and the most ambitious government-supported arts program since the Italian Renaissance. The post WPA doc ‘New Deal for Artists,’...
View ArticleHarlem film festival to feature ‘Voodoo Macbeth’
"Voodoo Macbeth," a film recounting the 1936 production, will be an official selection at the Harlem International Film Festival in May. It will be screened at the AMC Magic Johnson Harlem 9 Theatres....
View Article‘Voodoo Macbeth’ adds more festival appearances
The USC School of Cinematic Arts movie recounts how a 20-year-old Orson Welles adapted and directed a Federal Theatre Project production of "Macbeth" in Harlem in 1936. The post ‘Voodoo Macbeth’ adds...
View Article‘New Deal for Artists’ recalls WPA impact on arts (review)
At the start of the documentary "New Deal for Artists," Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel — who got his start in the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Writers’ Project — laments that the...
View ArticleCole Porter songs from Orson Welles’‘Around the World’ online
The musical — based on the Jules Verne novel "Around the World in 80 Days" — was a flop and never properly recorded. A handful of songs were featured in a very abridged performance on The Mercury...
View ArticleWho was Ned Sheldon?
In the unproduced screenplay for "The Cradle Will Rock," Orson Welles referred to Ned Sheldon as the master spirit governing the American theatre and a mentor and guide to many, including Welles...
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