These are rich days to be a fan of Orson Welles. Some of the legendary director’s movies have recently been restored and re-released. And then there are the films lost, abandoned or left in fragments ...

Shortly after scaring radio audiences with his “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast — but before filming “Citizen Kane” — actor-director Orson Welles packed what is now Symphony Hall for a lecture and ...

In 1937, 22-year-old Orson Welles was already a creative force, a prodigious writer and director for stage and radio via his Mercury Theatre. On May 6, he had listened, along with thousands of ...