My hometown of St. Louis sees another Welles play being mounted; this one is called The Probe: an Inquiry Into the Meteoric Rise and Spectacular Fall of Orson Welles in Hollywood. “Conceived and created by Chuck Harper,” as the home page states, it uses pre-existing material to look at Welles’ career. This article features a brief interview with the author, a university professor at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. I was able to read the article, and then got requests to register, so if you want to view it and not register, use this: ID: bugmenot PW: bugmenot. It sounds interesting, with the production getting around the problem of imitating Welles by choosing to have actors as unlike him as possible, even having Welles portrayed by a woman at one point; no reviews that I could find, however.

-JW