War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast
Inspired by and Including the Mercury Theatre on the Air’s Infamous 1938 Radio Play
Adapted by Joe Landry
Director: Alec J. Wolf
Set 10 years after the famous Orson Wells broadcast the WBFR radio ensemble recreates the colorful events surrounding the infamous evening, including the full original broadcast. This radio-play-within-a-radio-play is a reminder of what fear can do to a society.