The ascendance of podcasts has resuscitated the mostly-dead art once called the radio drama. This adaptation of Oscar Wilde's short story is one of the best new examples I've heard.
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Theater Interview: Emma McDonald from ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’
Actress Emma McDonald explains this modern take on Oscar Wilde's classic and the challenges of making a digital production.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Salome’ by Oscar Wilde
This fine new production uses an admirable new translation from the French that stays close to the original, giving us Wilde indeed, flaws and all.
Read More »Opera Review (NYC): ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’
W.H. Auden called Oscar Wilde's great farcical comedy "the only pure verbal opera in English." Composer Gerald Barry and The Royal Opera have taken that idea and run with it.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Rupert Everett in ‘The Judas Kiss’ by David Hare
Hare has written dialogue for Wilde that measures up to the man's legendary wit, while Everett achieves that elusive theatrical magic of a larger-than-life yet utterly believable performance.
Read More »The Pride and the Prejudice of ‘Wuthering Heights’: Oldcastle Books Pulps the Classics
Maybe what Pulp! The Classics is really doing is returning these classic novels to their original context of popular culture and entertainment.
Read More »Theater Review (LA): ‘Dorian’s Descent’
Oscar Wilde’s cautionary tale from 1890 is adapted for the musical stage in an overlong and repetitive production.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Secret Dublin: An Unusual Guide by Pól Ó Conghaile – Jonglez Publishing’
A vacationing traveler could wander Dublin for months and not encounter half of the great resources in this guide
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray’ by Mitzi Szereto
A sequel to Oscar Wilde's work takes a classic creation and distills away much of his complexity.
Read More »Theatre Review (LA): ‘An Ideal Husband’ at the Sierra Madre Playhouse
A first-rate production of Oscar Wilde's biting comedy, still relevant for contemporary audiences with its depiction of corruption and hypocrisy in high society.
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