![]() ![]() “To Welles’ amazement,” writes Charles Higham in Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius, “Wilder knew all about his career at the Gate,” recalling praise the young actor received from the New York Times. Welles and Wilder had first met at a party in 1933, not long after Welles had put in a performing stint at Dublin’s Gate Theatre. ![]() Wells’ The War of the Worlds(and, notably, the year before Citizen Kane). Welles adapted it for radio in 1939, the year after its premiere on stage as well as the year after the broadcast of his much more infamous radio adaptation of H.G. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s comedy You Can’t Take It with You gives it a run for its money). Since its first performance in 1938, Thornton Wilder’s quaint yet dark, sentimental yet metafictional signature dramatic work has become the most popular high-school play of them all (though George S. ![]()
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