Orson Welles

Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Federal Theatre Project

The uncanny realism of Orson Welles’s radio play crystallised a fear of communication technology that haunts us today.

He was said to have gone into decline, but his story is one of endurance—even of unlikely triumph.

Will an A.I. restoration of “The Magnificent Ambersons” right a historic wrong or desecrate a classic?

Old fights about radio have lessons for new fights about the Internet.

Orson Welles’ infamous 1938 radio program did not touch off nationwide hysteria. Why does the legend persist?

A woman killed by Congress.

Marking the centenary of the creator of “The Twilight Zone,” who knew that dystopia was always over the nearest ridge.

James Shapiro's book "The Playbook" is a timely reminder both of the power of theater and of the vehement antipathy it can generate.

Why conservatives killed America’s federally funded theater.

Keaton had been on the stage longest, risen the highest, fallen the furthest, and left the most indelible legacy.

These men, who had sacrificed so much for the country, faced racist attacks in 1946 as they laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement to come.

Observing the visible features of Martian landscapes, Giovanni Schiaparelli began seeing things almost immediately.

How the master of suspense got his sadistic streak.

What's the matter with left-populism? A review of Thomas Frank's "The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism."

Since the release of "Future Shock" 50 years ago, the allure of speculative nonfiction has remained the same: We all want to know what’s coming next.

How a legacy of violent nationalism haunts the republic in the age of Trump.

In Guatemala, the CIA hired an American actor and two radio DJs to oust a president.

Novelist Richard Wright yearned to break into film, but Hollywood's censorship of black stories left his aspirations unfulfilled.