Welles had a lifelong interest in magic, having been taught his first magic tricks by Harry Houdini in the 1920s, when Welles was still a boy. In this unfinished television special, filmed between ...

If you’re already at least a moderate fan of all-around rogue genius Orson Welles, you probably don’t need Chuck Workman’s documentary Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles. But ...

Come for the presents. Stay for the baggage.

This Wednesday, take a leap back in time with an unlikely historical pair — Orson Welles and Richard Nixon. The two figures meet in the new play, “Orson Welles Presents: An Evening with Nixon.” The ...

Genius. Madman. Trailblazer. Provocateur. There are nearly as many words to describe Orson Welles as there are rumors about the man who set Broadway, Hollywood and the broadcast airwaves afire with ...

Variety doped it as a white elephant, for which there are no stables on Broadway. But it was coming this week, anyway—a huge (36 scenes, nine carloads of props) staging of Jules Verne’s Around the ...