Hidden Gems: Play Reading Series
Sat, Oct 04
|Hudson Valley Writers Center
Whether it was written in the time of Caesar or written last week at a Little Caesars, The Hidden Gems: Play Reading Series is a monthly play reading series dedicated to revisiting rarely produced plays as well as giving voice to new works for the first time.
Time & Location
Oct 04, 2025, 7:00 PM
Hudson Valley Writers Center, 300 Riverside Dr, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591, USA
About the event
Whether it was written in the time of Caesar or written last week at a Little Caesars, The Hidden Gems: Play Reading Series is a monthly play reading series dedicated to revisiting rarely produced plays as well as giving voice to new works for the first time.
Join us Saturday, October 4th at 7:00pm for The War of the Worlds by Howard E. Koch.
The War of the Worlds is a realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth that was staged by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air series and premiered on CBS Radio on October 30, 1938. Based on the novel by H.G. Wells and adapted for the radio by Howard Koch, the show was presented as a series of authentic newscasts breaking into regularly scheduled programming to alert the people of Earth of the dire circumstances. This led to national mass hysteria among…