Orson Welles News

Ute Lemper truly personifies Marlene Dietrich in this fly on the wall autobiography of the screen legend. The show plays two more performances 1/30 and 1/31 at 7 pm

 In February, Plymouth’s Spire Center for Performing Arts is launching the Spire Classic Film Series, celebrating timeless movies—presented the way they were meant to be seen. Learn more about the lineup here!

The Boston SciFi Film Festival will return for its 51st edition at the Somerville Theatre in February 2026. The five-day festival will feature more than 20 feature films, dozens of short films, panel discussions, and its annual 24-hour Marathon.

The Legacy Theatre’s focus for 2026 is “there’s no place like home.' For Eric Santagata, those words have an incredibly special meaning as he prepares to succeed Legacy Co-Founder and Executive Artistic Director, Keely Baisden Knudsen

The weather outside might be frightful for a while, but what better time to stay in and snuggle up with a great Broadway read? This season, Broadway's best have put pen to paper to turn out theatre page-turners of every kind. From theatre biographies to theatre fiction; theatre books for kids to theatre history; check out our collection of 20 new Broadway books for every theatre lover's winter reading list.

Can Can has opened its 2026 season with NOIR, a new stage production inspired by film noir aesthetics. The show combines choreography, original music, and visual design in an immersive theatrical setting. See photos of the show.

January 2026 at The Avalon Theatre will feature A Month of Firsts-a celebration of the films that changed cinema. This month, The Avalon Theatre invites audiences to step back in time.

With their production of Noël Coward's Fallen Angels currently running, the Menier Chocolate Factory have announced that Janie Dee will be staging a one-night-only performance of Coward & Friends with Stefan Bednarczyk.

This is one of the most enjoyable versions of A Christmas Carol this reviewer has seen in recent years—it is unique and entertaining, while maintaining the classic storyline and its underlying themes.

Sutter Street Theatre will present a new edition of The Olde Tyme Radio Show, featuring classic radio scripts from the 1930s–1950s performed live with period-style Foley sound effects.

Award-winning Porchlight Music Theatre has revealed the cast for the next production in its 31st season, the world premiere of Porchlight Sings the Season. Learn more!

Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara opens its 47th season with War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast, a thrilling live reimagining of Orson Welles’ infamous 1938 radio play. See photos of the production.

Just in time for Halloween, audiences are invited to embrace the thrills, chills and laughter of the season when acclaimed actor and master storyteller Joshua Kane takes the stage for Gothic at Midnight: An Evening of Hilarity and Horror!

The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced full casting for its forthcoming production of Noël Coward's Fallen Angels which opens its new season at its home base in London Bridge.

Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara will open its 47th season 'Truth and Illusion' with the theatrical experience WAR OF THE WORLDS: THE PANIC BROADCAST.

Broadway star Thomasina Gross more than plays Eartha Kitt — she summons her, like a conjuring magic trick, with all her kittenish playfulness, her intelligence, her elegance, her distinctive breathy voice, her crisp, entirely self-constructed Anglo-Euro accent, her biting humor and confident, joyous, full-throated sexuality.

Foster Cat Productions will take audiences on a nostalgic flight this August with a rare staging of It’s a Bird... It’s a Plane... It’s Superman!, the campy cult musical from the creators of Annie and Bye Bye Birdie.

The Legacy Theatre in Branford, CT will present the world premiere of Scrooge and Marley, a new family holiday musical inspired by the characters of A Christmas Carol, beginning December 4, 2025.

On August 7, 2025, Stray Dog Theatre will continue its season with the youth opera The Second Hurricane. Composed by Aaron Copland, with a libretto by Edwin Denby, The Second Hurricane premiered in 1937 at The Playhouse in New York City. That original production was directed by a then 21-year-old Orson Welles and starred a young Joseph Cotten. “Audiences are going to want to see this because it is unique and hasn’t been done in St. Louis before,” says Bell. “This is a unique art form that needs to be explored and cherished.” 

Following a run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August, Edy Hurst's Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Himself is coming to theatres all over the UK. Learn how to purchase tickets.