Center Stage at Southampton Arts Center to present the Long Island premiere of Joe Landry’s War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast, A Live Radio Play

Center Stage at Southampton Arts Center will present Joe Landry’s, War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast on October 21st and 22nd at Southampton Arts Center, 25 Jobs Lane in Southampton.

Performance times are Saturday at 2:00 and 7:00 PM and Sunday at 2:00 PM. Michael Disher directs this live radio adaptation of the H G Wells classic novel.

The War of the Worlds has been both popular (having never been out of print) and influential, spawning numerous feature films, radio dramas, a record album, comic book adaptations, television series, and sequels or parallel stories by other authors. It was memorably dramatized in the 1938 radio program directed by and starring Orson Wells, that reportedly caused panic among listeners who did not know that the events were fictional.

Joe Landry’s radio play, War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast, A Live Radio Play highlights the day leading up to the infamous Halloween 1938 broadcast - and its unpredictable aftermath.

“Landry’s adaptation of the Wells classic is particularly relevant and pertinent. The persuasive and often pervasive power of print and broadcast journalism has never been more apparent.” said Disher. “The responsibility of presenting facts without speculation or opinion is where undeniable truth lies.”

Featuring Richard Adler, Daniel Becker, Richard Browning, Susan Cincotta, Joey Giovingo, Vincenzo Harty, Jenifer Maxson, Matthew O’Connor, Franco Pistritto, Michaal Lyn Schepps

War of the Wolds: The Panic Broadcast, A Live Radio Play is sponsored in part by Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

General Admission Tickets are $20.00 and SAC Member Admission is $15.00. All tickets are available at www.southamptonartscenter.org/live or by calling 631 283-0967. Tickets are also available at the door. Reservations recommended.

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