INWOOD — The fear felt by unwitting listeners who first heard Orson Welles' famed 1938 "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast is sure to be revived as the Moose Hall Theatre Company kicks off the second part of its summer outdoor theater festival.
The non-Shakespearean drama is the second part of the 2011 Inwood Shakespeare Festival titled the "Season of Tolerance & Intolerance."
"War of the Worlds (A Milky-Way Premier, under the stars!)," directed and adapted by Inwood resident Ted Minos, tells the story of "strange beings that herald an invasion of an 'army from the planet Mars.'"
The original airing of the radio drama reportedly frightened leagues of citizens who flew into a temporary panic until they realized the prank.
The play runs Wednesdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. until Aug. 6 on the Inwood Hill Park Peninsula near the 218th Street and Indian Road entrance.