Orson Welles News

According to a statement released by Main Street Theatre Works, company member Allen Pontes has passed away after a battle with brain cancer. Read a full obituary here.

Experience a Martian invasion this Halloween at Jeff Wayne's THE WAR OF THE WORLDS: THE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE in London. Running through January 2025, it combines live actors, VR, and 3D sound. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Experience the annual WAR OF THE WORLDS radio show at the Helen Borgers Theater, celebrating its legacy with a live studio audience or online. Join the Long Beach Shakespeare Company this Halloween season. Learn how to purchase tickets.

THE WINDOW a short film by Turkmen director and Fulbright Fellow Nabat Shir, will compete at the 20th Annual LA Femme Film Festival at the Regal Theatres at LA Live in downtown Los Angeles, October 24-27, 2024.

To share a hit show of its Spring season with the largest possible audience, Theater for the New City (TNC), Crystal Field, Executive Artistic Director, will remount its production of 'Orson's Shadow,' written by Austin Pendleton and directed by Mr. Pendleton and his longtime close friend and colleague David Schweizer.

Experience the suspense of DRACULA as Improv Playhouse stages a radio drama using Orson Welles' 1938 script. Directed by David Brian Stuart. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Following successful previews at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edy Hurst's Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Himself premieres at The Lowry, Salford for two performances this Halloween (31st October and 1st November) before embarking on a UK tour.

Famed international performer Irina Maleeva, who has starred in movies, television, recordings, and on stage in both theater and cabaret performances, was honored at the Bulgarian Consulate in Los Angeles on Tuesday night.

Actress and philanthropist Irina Maleeva was honored with the Ivan Vazov Medal by Bulgarian Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev for her contributions to the arts and humanitarian efforts.

Hot on the stiletto heels of her critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe run, two-time Olivier and multi-award-winning, critically acclaimed British actress, singer and musical theatre star, Janie Dee will perform a series of autumn dates for Janie Dee's Beautiful World Of Cabaret - a playfully informative and inspirational musical journey into humanity and nature, that is, at its heart, always hopeful.

Experience the restored version of Orson Welles’s CITIZEN KANE at Jaffrey’s Park Theatre. This classic film returns to the big screen, offering audiences a chance to see it in its original glory.

Expats Theatre will present its upcoming production of MARLENE, a new play that explores the life and legacy of Marlene Dietrich. Learn how to purchase tickets.

GALA Hispanic Theatre will present the world premiere of The 22+ Weddings of Hugo (Las 22+ bodas de Hugo) in Spanish by Venezuelan playwright and GALA’s Artistic Director Gustavo Ott from September 5 to 29, 2024.

Lily Collins (Emily in Paris, Mank, To The Bone) and Álvaro Morte (Money Heist, Wheel of Time, Immaculate) will swap the big screen for the West End in the UK premiere of Bess Wohl’s play Barcelona.

Wilton's Music Hall announces its Autumn 2024 Season featuring a diverse lineup of theatre and music performances with stars like Anton Lesser, Rupert Everett, and Tim Key.

Radio show whodunnit blends murder mystery parlor game and old-time radio for old-fashioned family fun.

The world premiere play WELLS AND WELLES by Chicago playwright Amy Crider imagines what might have been said in a private meeting between these two pioneers of literature and the arts.

The newly relaunched Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has announced a landmark collaboration with the renowned Edinburgh Festival Fringe which will open up the Film Festival programme in new venues across the city including non-traditional cinema spaces at Summerhall and the heart of the Fringe footprint.

Wellesnet has just uncovered vintage video footage of stage and screen legend Orson Welles at the ripe age of 17. Check out footage from a dress rehearsal for a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in 1933.

From March 14 to 31, Theater for the New City (TNC), in association with Oberon Theatre Ensemble and Strindberg Rep, will present the 25th Anniversary presentation of 'Orson's Shadow' by Austin Pendleton, directed by the author.