By LESLIE WEISMAN Richard France’s Obediently Yours, Orson Welles — which, as he wrote in his introduction to the published play (Oberon Books, 2011), was “being published and/or performed from Argentina to France, from Mexico to Germany, from Spain to India (in Hindi, yet!), from Belgium to the Balkans, from Poland to Japan, and now […]
By RAY KELLY It’s a busy and exciting time for Joel Pettigrew, the writer-director-producer of Mercury Man: The Last Performance of Orson Welles. Following months of rehearsals and a successful preview in Toronto, Pettigrew’s play will debut at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival on July 18-29. (It has already received a thumbs up from the Toronto Fringe New Play […]
Kevin Godley has shed some light on The Gate, the feature film he is writing and directing about teenage Orson Welles’ time in Ireland in 1931. The film depicts Welles shortly before his death in 1985 reflecting on his arrival in Galway. He hired a donkey and cart and traveled around the west coast, sleeping […]
British musician and video director Kevin Godley (10cc, Godley & Creme) is set to write and direct a feature film about Orson Welles’ stage debut at Dublin’s Gate Theatre in 1931. The Gate begins shortly before Welles death in 1985 as the 70-year-old filmmaker is haunted by the memories of the start of his professional […]
Auditions for Mercury Man: The Last Performance of Orson Welles, a new play by Joel Pettigrew (Waking), will be held later this month in Toronto. It is set to debut at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival on July 18-29. Mercury Man takes place days before Welles’ death in October 1985 as he is recording the role […]
An essay by Orson Welles, published before his final New York stage production in 1956.
Eartha Kitt co-starred with Orson Welles in his 1950 stage production “Time Runs.”
Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre production of Caesar was a Broadway sensation 80 years ago.
The Mercury Theatre was born in the late summer of 1937.
The 75-minute production is part magic show and part dramatic biography.
“Caesar” was the freshman stage production of the Mercury Theatre on Nov. 11, 1937.
He gained fame with the pro-labor “The Cradle Will Rock.”
The play will premiere in Los Angeles on June 3.
Orson Welles’ production was first staged in April 1936.
Further recollections by a Moby Dick Rehearsed cast member have been unearthed.
She played Mistress Quickly opposite Orson Welles’ Falstaff.
The March 11, 1953 letter was certainly addressed to longtime friend and columnist Leonard Lyons.
Opening on January 8, 1937, “Faustus” was the third productions Welles would direct for the WPA.
He appeared in “Caesar,” “Shoemaker’s Holiday” and “Danton’s Death.”
Welles filmed between 40 and 75 minutes of the production.
