THE WAR OF THE WORLDS

Season: 58 (2003 - 2004)

Run Date(s): Oct. 30, 2003

Description: The War of the Worlds will be broadcast at 8 PM on Thursday, October 30, from the Lincoln Community Playhouse Studio Theatre over KFOR 1240AM. The show will be rebroadcast the following day, Friday, October 31 (Halloween), at 12:30pm. The broadcast recording session is open to the public. Tickets are $15 for non-subscribers, $12 for LCP subscribers. In 1898, H. G. Wells wrote what is arguably the most important novel in the history of science fiction. The War of the Worlds established a benchmark for a whole subset of the genre by dramatizing an alien invasion of the Earth. Forty years later, Orson Welles set a radio drama of the book in the real life American town of Grover's Mill. The October 30 broadcast of Welles' dramatization started in motion a genuine mass panic. The War of the Worlds is the premiere broadcast in a series of live radio theatre presentations presented by LCP in collaboration with radio station KFOR 1240 AM. For more information or to reserve tickets, call the LCP box office at 489-7529