Seventy-five years ago, Orson Welles terrorized Americans coast to coast with his now infamous radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’s science-fiction classic, The War of the Worlds. The Halloween broadcast ...

Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the U.S. heard a startling report of mysterious creatures and ...

In 1937, 22-year-old Orson Welles was already a creative force, a prodigious writer and director for stage and radio via his Mercury Theatre. On May 6, he had listened, along with thousands of ...

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In 1938, the Great Depression ravaged America, the world was on the brink of war, and Superman debuted. And on the night before Halloween that year, another event occurred that sent America into pure ...

There’s an unfortunate timeliness to Orson Welles’ adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, with its deadly attacks on America and its evacuation of New York City. It doesn’t take much effort to ...

For years, it was a mystery to me how people could have fallen for Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast on Oct. 30, 1938. Using sound effects, his own flair for drama and a compelling ...

Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara (ETC) will open its 47th season, themed “Truth and Illusion,” with War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast, a gripping theatrical recreation of the 1938 Orson ...

Just over 80 years ago, on Oct. 30, 1938, Orson Welles' radio dramatization of "The War of the Worlds" – H.G. Wells' tale of a Martian invasion of Earth – stirred panic among listeners across America, ...

So how did so many people actually believe that Martians were invading? For starters, we didn’t have a clear idea of what was on the surface of Mars yet. The space age was still decades away. So for ...