White Bear, London: At age 2, Orson Welles was already directing and starring in productions for the New York arm of the recently formed Federal Theatre Project. For his next show Welles wanted to direct a musical, choosing Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock, a piece with strong socialist sympathies at odds with current, rising Republican sentiment in the US. Read the full review
SOURCE: The Stage at 06:20AM on August 20, 2012