Maverick will be staged at the Connelly Theater in New York City from February 6 through March 2.
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 happenings of Frank Beacham, a young video maker, who was given the creative opportunity to work with Welles in the months before his death in 1985.
Maverick is billed as fact-based “personal journey, and a unique theatrical rendering of one of filmmaking’s insurgent legends.”
Beacham has written about his memories of Welles before in a revealing article on his website entitled Orson Welles and his Brief, Passionate Love Affair with the Betacam.
Beacham later produced, with the late Richard Wilson, the six-hour audio retrospective, Theatre of the Imagination: Radio Stories by Orson Welles & the Mercury Theatre.
He also wrote, directed and produced the documentary, The Mercury Company Remembers with Leonard Maltin.
The Cliplight Theater production of Maverick is written by Beacham and George Demas.
Tickets for Maverick are priced between $30 and $50. Tickets are available online at https://www.artful.ly/store/events/16663
Cliplight Theater has presented a video Q&A on YouTube with Beacham about Welles:
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