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The Mercury Theatre was an independent repertory theatre company founded in New York City in 1937 by Orson Welles and producer John Houseman. The company produced theatrical presentations, radio programs and motion pictures. The Mercury also released promptbooks and phonographic recordings of four Shakespeare works for use in schools.
Taking advantage of Welles’s new celebrity, CBS offered Welles total creative control for a short radio series. First Person Singular ran for nine episodes, from July 11 to September 5, 1938 before contining under the title The Mercury Theatre on the Air through December of 1938, when the War of the Worlds infamy earned them a sponsorship ...
The Mercury Theatre on the Air is a radio series of live radio dramas created and hosted by Orson Welles. The weekly hour-long show presented classic literary works performed by Welles's celebrated Mercury Theatre repertory company, with music composed or arranged by Bernard Herrmann. [a] The series began July 11, 1938, as a sustaining program ...
No.TitleOriginal Air Date1July 11, 1938 ( 1938-07-11)2"Treasure Island"July 18, 1938 ( 1938-07-18)3"A Tale of Two Cities"July 25, 1938 ( 1938-07-25)4"The Thirty-Nine Steps"August 1, 1938 ( 1938-08-01)Mercury Theatre on the Air. (September- December 1938) First Person Singular under a new name. One-hour adaptions of literary works, including Hell on Ice and The War of the Worlds. CBS was well pleased with the first set of Orson Welles productions, and the company engaged Welles and his troupe for another set of broadcast dramas.
Dec 31, 2014 · Welles revived the Mercury Theatre title for a short series in the summer of 1946. Welles used the banner "Mercury Productions" on many of his films, and several of the actors from his Mercury Theatre Company appeared in them, notably in Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons and Macbeth. [edit] Episodes # Date Title 1 Jul 11, 1938 Dracula
Oct 22, 2012 · The Mercury Theatre was a theatre company Welles established with John Houseman in 1937, right after Welles finished his work with the Federal Theatre Project. It would later have an incarnation as Mercury Theatre On the Air, the radio series in which the infamous “ War of the Worlds” broadcast would air. Always ambitious and goal-oriented ...
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May 6, 2015 · On Halloween morning, 1938, Orson Welles awoke to find himself the most talked about man in America. The night before, Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air had performed a radio adaptation of ...
