WOODSTOCK, Ill. (AP) — Woodstock will celebrate its favorite son, Orson Welles, and one of his favorites, Shakespeare.
The Orson Welles Creative Arts Festival celebrated the filmmaker’s 100th birthday last year. The (Crystal Lake) Northwest Herald reports that it was so successful, Woodstock Celebrates Inc. is repeating it.
This is the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death and Welles was a noted Shakespearean actor. The producer of one of the greatest films of all time, “Citizen Kane”,” directed his first plays at the Woodstock Operate House in 1934 with a Shakespearean trilogy.
The festival will feature Welles’ Shakespeare films on three separate nights “Macbeth” on Oct. 12, “Othello” on Oct. 19 and “Chimes at Midnight” on Oct. 25.