The Mercury Theatre was an independent repertory theatre company founded in New York City in 1937 by Orson Welles and producer John Houseman. The company produced theatrical presentations, radio progr
Poster for the Mercury Theatre's three spring 1938 productions—Caesar, The Shoemaker's Holiday, and The Cradle Will Rock—running simultaneously in two Broadway theaters
Orson Welles at age 22 (1938), Broadway's youngest impresario
Orson Welles as Brutus in Caesar (1937–38)
Marian Warring-Manley (Margery), Whitford Kane (Simon Eyre) and George Coulouris (The King) in The Shoemaker's Holiday (1938)
The Comedy Theatre was a Broadway theatre located at 110 West 41st Street in Manhattan that opened in 1909. It presented the first Broadway appearances of Katharine Cornell and Ruth Draper, as well as
Mercury Theatre seating plan from the playbill for Heartbreak House (1938)
Geraldine Fitzgerald and Orson Welles in Heartbreak House