The War of the Worlds
Multi-camera Live-stream
The 1938 Radio Script • OCT 30 – NOV 1
by Howard E. Koch • Based on the novel by H.G. Wells
Directed by Jonathan Rhys Williams
This special event is not part of our Mainstage package.
Broadcast from New York’s Mercury Theatre in 1938, this infamous radio play, based on the novel by H. G. Wells, had many terrified listeners convinced that an actual alien invasion of Earth was taking place. Adapted by Howard E. Koch, co-writer of Casablanca, and narrated by Orson Welles, this original script detailing the frightening tale of an extraterrestrial takeover brings to life onstage a fully rendered live radio play just as it might have been produced by Orson Welles in 1938.
Due to the pandemic, Tabard Theatre is closed to patrons, and currently operating as a broadcast studio only.
REVIEWS
What the Critics Have Said
“Remembered like no other radio programme.”
— BBC News Magazine
“Remains vibrantly alive in the American consciousness.”
— Leonard Maltin, Indiewire
“a powerful work of radio theatre”
— Spacial Anomaly
Voted Best Theatre Company
by Metro Silicon Valley Readers
