Orson Welles News

Theatre critics Jeremy McCarter and Howard Kissel will speak at the September 28th edition of Afterwords, following Orson's Shadow

Robert Wise, whose distinguished career included winning four Oscars for directing and producing the film versions of West Side Story and The Sound of Music, passed away at the age of 91

Austin Pendleton's off-Broadway hit about Orson Welles, Orson's Shadow, will reach its 200th performance off-Broadway on September 4th

Merging live theater and the lastest technology craze, Lucid's podcasts will be available for free worldwide, bringing humanity's oldest art form into the 21st Century.

The complete cast for the upcoming, and highly anticipated revival starring Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris has now been anounced. Previews begin on October 3, for a November 3, 2005 opening.

Actor/director/writer Simon Callow will replace Anthony Andrews as Count Fosco in the West End production of The Woman in White

Geraldine Fitzgerald, who recieved a Tony nomination as a director and an Oscar nomination as an actress, passed away on July 17th at the age of 91

On June 29th, filmmaker Jonathan Lynn will discuss Orson Welles and his career as the Afterwords guest speaker for the popular talkback series that follows Orson's Shadow

Robert Osborne is the latest to lend his insights to the Afterwords discussions that follow the off-Broadway hit Orson's Shadow at the Barrow Street Theatre; Osborne will appear on June 22nd

The off-Broadway hit about Orson Welles has reached its 100th performanc at the Barrow Street Theatre

The theatre talkback series Afterwords is presented each night after performances of Orson's Shadow at the Barrow Street Theatre

Austin Pendleton's Orson's Shadow Play at the Barrow Street Theatre with Sean McNall as Kenneth Tynan

John McMartin and Stephen Bogardus will be the voices of Nathan Leopold's Parole Board in The York Theatre Company production of THRILL ME: THE LEOPOLD & LOEB STORY, which stars Matt Bauer and Doug Kreeger.

A talkback series entitled AFTERWORDS begins at the Off-Broadway hit Orson's Shadow on Wednesday, April 13th and continues each Wednesday night thereafter, with Q&A sessions immediately following 8:00 PM performances.

Daniel Sullivan's new production eschews togas and doublets for corporate threads

James Morgan, The York Theatre Company's Producing Artistic Director, today announced that Matt Bauer and Heath Calvert have been cast as the two infamous teen killers in the theatre's upcoming production of Stephen Dolginoff's Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story, directed by Michael Rupert.

A talkback series entitled AFTERWORDS begins at the Off-Broadway hit Orson's Shadow on Wednesday, April 13th and continues each Wednesday night thereafter, with Q&A sessions immediately following 8:00 PM performances.

- The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director), in association with Jim Kierstead, will present the Off Broadway premiere of Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story, a new musical by Stephen Dolginoff based on the infamous 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case, beginning May 16, 2005

CONTEST CLOSED! THE BEST OF EDINBURGH, a 'hilarious and intensely moving' play beginning November 5th at Pace University

More behind the scenes journal entries from Raymond Jaramillo McLeod, now starring as 'Wreck' in Wonderful Town.