Editor’s note: Todd Tarbox has generously agreed to share an excerpt from his acclaimed book “Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts” with Wellesnet.com readers. Written as a play, “Friendship” is based on recorded conversations between Welles and his mentor Hill, former headmaster at the Todd School for Boys in Woodstock, Illinois. […]
The Daily Page of Madison, Wisconsin, has taken a look back at the time a 10-year-old Orson Welles spent there in 1925. Using comments offered by a childhood acquaintance of Welles to the Madison Literary Club in 1991, The Daily Page paints a portrait of a gifted youngster with a penchant for storytelling. Welles’ summer […]
Editor’s note: With the interest in the Orson Welles’ celebrations planned in Woodstock, Illinois, in 2014 and 2015, as well as the recent publication of “Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts” by Todd Tarbox, Wellesnet is offering up a look at Welles childhood from the man himself. While he never penned […]
Todd Tarbox, author of “Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts,” (available through amazon.com) spoke at Read Between The Lynes in Woodstock, Illinois, on Saturday, July 27. He has been kind enough to allow Wellesnet to publish his remarks. By TODD TARBOX It’s always a joy returning to Woodstock where I spent […]
“Othello” restoration producer Michael Dawson looks at the possibility of doing a restoration of “Chimes at Midnight.”
By RAY KELLY Todd Tarbox, grandson of Orson Welles’ beloved mentor, Roger “Skipper” Hill, has recently published “Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts,” which recounts their life-long relationship in a series of candid and often moving conversations. Available online through Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com and other major retailers, “Friendship” is essential reading for […]
Woodstock Celebrates Inc. has expanded its planned celebration of the 100th anniversary of Orson Welles’ birth from a two-day to a four-day event in 2015. The Illinois celebration will now take place a week earlier on May 6-9, 2015, which will coincide with Welles’ actual birthday of May 6. It also avoids a conflict with […]
Today marks the 98th anniversary of the birth of the late Orson Welles. Please make today the day you support efforts to throw a fitting 100th birthday bash in Welles’ “hometown” of Woodstock, Illinois. The non-profit Woodstock Celebrates Inc. will mark the 80th anniversary next year of the 1934 Todd Theatre Festival at the historic […]
Wellesnet.com set a record for unique monthly visitors to the website in April 2013. Last month, 20,125 users visited Wellesnet.com from their PCs, smartphones and tablets. This was a nearly 40 percent gain over the audience size a year earlier. It easily surpassed the record 17,230 unique monthly visitors set in December 2012. This growth […]
Orson Welles attended the Todd School for Boys from 1926 to 1931. He formed a lasting friendship with his mentor, headmaster Roger “Skipper” Hill. His 95-year-old daughter, Joanne Hill Tarbox Styles, has written an essay on Welles’ time in Woodstock, Illinois. Styles was married for than 50 years to Welles’ childhood rival, Hascy Tarbox. Wellesnet […]
By RAY KELLY It is a poorly kept secret that Wellesnet.com is smitten with Woodstock Celebrates Inc., a non-profit Illinois group organizing major events to mark the 80th anniversary next year of the 1934 Todd Theatre Festival at the historic Woodstock Opera House, as well as the 100th anniversary in 2015 of Orson Welles’ birth. […]
By MIKE TEAL The Illinois stage where a 19-year-old Orson Welles launched his professional theatrical career was dedicated in his honor on Sunday, February 10. About 40 people, including members of Woodstock Celebrates Inc., attended the afternoon dedication of the Orson Welles Stage at the Woodstock Opera House in Woodstock, Illinois. Woodstock Celebrates, which spearheaded […]