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While in his twenties, Welles directed a number of stage productions before creating the infamous 1938 radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Welles's directorial film debut Citizen Kane (1941), in which he also starred as Charles Foster Kane , garnered him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and ...
Next mounted was the farce Horse Eats Hat, an adaptation by Welles and Edwin Denby of The Italian Straw Hat, an 1851 five-act farce by Eugène Marin Labiche and Marc-Michel. [26]: 114 The play was presented September 26 – December 5, 1936, at Maxine Elliott's Theatre, New York, [21]: 334 and featured Joseph Cotten in his first starring role.
Me and Orson Welles is a 2008 period drama film directed by Richard Linklater and starring Zac Efron, Christian McKay, and Claire Danes.Based on Robert Kaplow's novel of the same name, the story, set in 1937 New York, tells of a teenager hired to perform in Orson Welles's groundbreaking stage adaptation of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar who becomes attracted to a career-driven production ...
Orson Welles at age 22 (1938), Broadway's youngest impresario. Part of the Works Progress Administration, the Federal Theatre Project (1935–39) was a New Deal program to fund theatre and other live artistic performances and entertainment programs in the United States during the Great Depression. [1]
Closet Picks is a video series by The Criterion Collection. [1] Involving its Criterion Closet where all of its distributed titles are stored, Criterion regularly invites individuals in the film and entertainment industries, as well as those adjacent to them, to peruse and choose from its selection of discs. [2]
September 5, 2014 Alaska Airlines Center: Anchorage: 5,000 February 8, 1983 Sullivan Arena: 8,700 1984 Egan Center: 2,800 2008 Idlughet Hall: 5,000 1988 Alaska Center for the Performing Arts: 2,000 (Atwood Concert Hall) 700 (Discovery Theatre) 370 (Laurence Theatre) 1953 West Auditorium: 1,918 June 13, 1990 Carlson Center: Fairbanks: 6,539 ...
The Orson Welles Cinema was a movie theater at 1001 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts that operated from 1969 to 1986. Showcasing independents, foreign films and revivals, it became a focal point of the Boston -Cambridge film community.
December 5 The Archdupe: Percy Robinson Marshal François Bazaine Mexican Colonel Dublin Gate Theatre Company Gate Theatre, Dublin Hilton Edwards [q] [3]: 328 [17]: 105 December 6 The Circle: W. Somerset Maugham: Lord Porteous Abbey Theatre, Dublin [r] [3]: 329 [17]: 105 December 26– January 9, 1932 Mogu of the Desert: Padraic Colum