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Television and theatre. Houseman moved into television producing, notably doing The Seven Lively Arts (1957) and episodes of Playhouse 90. He also returned to theatre, producing revivals of Measure for Measure (1957) and The Duchess of Malfi (1957).
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 programs and motion pictures.
John Houseman (1902–1988), later known to vast audiences as an actor, director, and theater academic, directed the FPT’s Negro Unit, which employed African American actors and theater workers. Houseman invited Orson Welles to direct a production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, commonly called “Voodoo Macbeth.” Welles staged his production ...
Houseman had to skirt some political land mines in selecting material for the Negro Unit. African-American theater was in decline by the 1930s-the victim, ironically, of the smashing success in the '20s of all-black musicals like Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake's Shuffle Along, which prompted white investors to get into a business formerly ...
Nov 6, 1988 · Houseman and Welles together formed the Mercury Theater and captivated New York with their bold productions of a modern-dress ''Julius Caesar,'' and the nation with their infamous radio...
After a controversial three-month engagement with the Federal Theatre Project in 1937, which culminated in the giant success of “The Cradle Will Rock,” an avant-garde musical with a pro-Union political slant, John Houseman, the director of the musical, found himself without a job.
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John Houseman, who wrote three volumes of memoirs, "Run-Through" (1972), "Front and Center" (1979) and "Final Dress" (1983), died at age 86 on October 31, 1988 after making major contributions to the theater and film.
