Links of interest regarding OW's theater career

[Wellesnet]

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Theatrical freedom fighters of the 30's
Includes discussion of Welles and the Mercury Theatre.
From Brecht to Lorca, the playwrights who became theatre's freedom fighters:
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/ ... m-fighters

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Rare footage of Orson Welles on the Dublin stage shot during "The Pleasure of Your Company" (aka "An Evening with Orson Welles") in 1960:
http://www.wellesnet.com/video-orson-we ... blin-1960/

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Wiki page on OW Theatre credits -
Amazingly complete:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Well ... re_credits

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Ray Kelly on OW's 1934 tour with Katherine Cornell
http://www.wellesnet.com/?p=10034

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Article on OW's 1934 Woodstock Festival:
http://www.wbez.org/blogs/john-r-schmid ... ock-107601

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FTP items online (DR. FAUSTUS, VOODOO MACBETH)
FROM WELLESNET FACEBOOK:

Thanks to Seth Alexander Thevoz for this. A real nice collection:

Complete scans of production notebooks, casting notes, music, costume designs, photos, prints, programmes, playbills, flyers and bills for Welles's productions of "Macbeth" and "Doctor Faustus":

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/ftplays.html

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Woodstock Opera House names it's stage after Orson Welles - (2014)

A very nice and fitting tribute:
http://www.nwherald.com/2012/11/12/oper ... s/awveg7c/

Wellesnet Main Page writeup:
http://www.wellesnet.com/?p=2775

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Frank Brady on TOO MUCH JOHNSON -

Here's an interesting 1978 article written by Frank Brady concerning Welles and the Mercury's 1938 stage production of TOO MUCH JOHNSON, which marked the first time Welles attempted to incorporate film into a stageplay:

http://moviejunkarchive.blogspot.com/20 ... elles.html

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