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...
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productions, the Mercury Theatre progressed into its most popular incarnation as The Mercury Theatre on the Air. The radio series included one of the most notable...
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"The War of the Worlds" was a Halloween episode of the radio series The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed and narrated by Orson Welles as an adaptation...
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The Mercury Program, an American post-rock band formed 1997 The Mercury Theatre on the Air, radio program Mercury (TV series), TV program Mercury project...
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Ray Collins (actor) (category Federal Theatre Project people)
a member of the repertory company of Welles's CBS Radio series The Mercury Theatre on the Air (1938) and its sponsored continuation, The Campbell Playhouse...
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achievement in the theatre, it premiered November 11, 1937, as the first production of the Mercury Theatre, an independent repertory theatre company that...
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The Mercury Summer Theatre of the Air (1946) is a CBS radio drama series produced, directed by and starring Orson Welles. It was a short-lived summer...
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metaphysical nightmare". The New Statesman. Archived from the original on 15 June 2020. Retrieved 20 September 2023. The Mercury Theatre on the Air: First Person...
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Paul Stewart (actor) (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
Welles expanded the range of the Mercury Theatre from Broadway to network radio with his CBS series, The Mercury Theatre on the Air, and Stewart became...
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December 3, 1988. New York: The Museum of Broadcasting. 1988. "The Mercury Theatre". RadioGOLDINdex. Archived from the original on January 27, 2016. Retrieved...
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Playhouse (TV series), 1950s television series The Mercury Theatre on the Air, old-time radio program continued as The Campbell Playhouse This disambiguation...
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Orson Welles discography (section "The Hitch-Hiker")
(1941). The Mercury Shakespeare: Macbeth. New York, London: Harper & Brothers. OCLC 5818380. The Song of Songs. WorldCat. OCLC 432021453. In the American...
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Heart of Darkness (redirect from The Heart Of Darkness)
audiobook at LibriVox Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre on the Air audio books, also of Heart of Darkness Orson Welles Mercury Theatre 1938, also of Heart of Darkness...
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Martin Gabel (section Selected theatre credits)
Danton's Death (1938). On radio, he played Professor Van Helsing in "Dracula" (1938), the debut episode of The Mercury Theatre on the Air.: 50 In 1947, he...
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Mercury Theatre, Auckland New Zealand theatre, founded 1910 Mercury Theatre (Australia), renamed by actor Peter Finch The Mercury Theatre on the Air, (originally...
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Orson Welles (category American theatre directors)
on Broadway through 1941, including a modern, politically charged Caesar (1937). In 1938, his radio anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air gave...
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Welles and John Houseman, it was a sponsored continuation of The Mercury Theatre on the Air. The series offered hour-long adaptations of classic plays and...
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and a 1938 Mercury Theatre on the Air radio adaptation titled The Immortal Sherlock Holmes, starring Orson Welles as Holmes, were based on the play. However...
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Agnes Moorehead (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
a mere seven years old at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.) She performed in his The Mercury Theatre on the Air radio adaptations, and had...
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2014-02-15. "Silver Theatre". Internet Archive. Retrieved 2014-02-15. "The Mercury Theatre on the Air: A Passenger to Bali". Orson Welles on the Air, 1938–1946...
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Erskine Sanford (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
American actor on the stage, radio and motion pictures. Long associated with the Theatre Guild, he later joined Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre company and...
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performed the radio play on Suspense (September 2, 1942), The Philip Morris Playhouse (October 16, 1942), and The Mercury Summer Theatre of the Air (June...
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productions, such as The Mercury Theatre on the Air. He also acted on Theatre Guild on the Air, The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, Suspense, and the CBS Radio Mystery...
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Lucy Westenra (section On screen)
the CBS radio series The Mercury Theatre on the Air made its debut with Dracula. Lucy appears in the middle of the broadcast as the ill fiancée of Arthur...
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Derek Tague and Martin Grams, Jr. Anderson acted in Welles's The Mercury Theatre on the Air, his CBS Radio series as characters in "Treasure Island", "Julius...
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Treasure Island (redirect from Treasure Island or the Mutiny of the Hispaniola)
National Theatre, review: 'yo-ho-hum'". Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. "Treasure Island (July 18, 1938)." The Mercury Theatre on the Air, edited...
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Dracula (disambiguation) (redirect from The Dracula Films)
characters in comics Dracula (radio drama), a 1938 episode of The Mercury Theatre on the Air Grandpa (The Munsters), or Sam Dracula, a fictional character Lily...
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Citizen Kane (category Drama films based on actual events)
success of Welles's Mercury Theatre and the controversial 1938 radio broadcast "The War of the Worlds" on The Mercury Theatre on the Air, Welles was courted...
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Long John Silver (category Fictional characters from the 18th century)
to this article: Treasure Island John Silver on IMDb Treasure Island on The Mercury Theatre on the Air: July 18, 1938 Basil Rathbone stars in Treasure...
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Rebecca (novel) (redirect from Rebecca the book)
the debut program of his live CBS Radio series The Campbell Playhouse (the sponsored continuation of The Mercury Theatre on the Air). Introducing the...
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