Article: `Orson Welles Rehearses Moby Dick' is a whale of a play.(NEWS)

Byline: Rohan Preston; Staff Writer

It takes chutzpah, quicksilver creativity and a touch of madness to tackle, onstage, stage and screen legend Orson Welles. After all, "Citizen Kane," the 1941 masterwork of the auteur born in Kenosha, Wis., was created by the same feverish imagination that also made a number of bombs. In fact, one could easily imagine Welles zigzagging across the line between insanity and genius in all of his works.

Avant-garde artist Anne Bogart tried to tackle Welles a few years ago, re-creating his famous 1938 radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds." Although Bogart's well-staged piece, not yet seen in these parts, ably ...

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