Breaking News from Mars

Hear local actors perform The War of the Worlds, a radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth narrated by Orson Welles that premiered on CBS Radio in 1938. Based on the novel by H.G. Wells, the show was presented as a series of authentic, breaking newscasts that led to national mass hysteria among listeners who believed it to be real.

*Doors open at 3pm, reading starts at 3:30pm

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