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Westport Country Playhouse will present Oscar Wilde’s beloved comedy The Importance of Being Earnest from October 28 through November 15, 2025. Directed by Melissa Rain Anderson.
The National Arts Club to present a month of free public events this November, honoring playwrights David Henry Hwang and Moisés Kaufman and featuring programs in theatre, music, literature, film, fashion, and archaeology, plus two major exhibitions at its historic Gramercy Park home.
Open Space Arts will present the Chicago premiere of DORIAN, a modern remix of The Picture of Dorian Gray fused with Oscar Wilde’s prosecution for homosexuality. Running November 28–December 14, the intimate production will be directed by Aaron Holland and staged in the company’s Uptown theater.
A dangerously erotic production, Maxim Didenko’s Salomé dazzles with a decadent set by Galya Solodovnikova, uncanny music by Louis Lebée, and excellent performances by the lead cast.
No one could accuse Max Webster's flamboyant production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest of being subtle. A new cast takes the reins from the National Theatre's hugely successful production last year and moves onto the intimate Noël Coward stage, bringing with them the biting wit, vibrant costumes and sexual fluidity that made this show such a hit.
LA NUOVA STAGIONE DEL TEATROSOPHIA UNA PROGRAMMAZIONE INTERESSANTE E PIENA DI SORPRESE
RuPaul's Drag Race Star, Jan Sport, will be extending her run in OSCAR AT THE CROWN at The Crown on Tottenham Court Road by two weeks due to popular demand.
Adapting works by Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde, TALES OF THE DAMNED is an immersive horror opera running at the Campbell House Museum from October 15 through November 2.
World Stage Theatre Company will open their eighth season with The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. Performances are at 8pm on Fridays and Saturdays and 3pm on Saturdays and Sundays.
The National Theatre has announced its Autumn programme for schools across the UK, deepening its work with young people to support its continued ambition to reach every child in the UK before they leave school.
All three are razor-sharp comedies, set across a single day, inviting audiences into vivid, pressurised worlds, and investigating how we both understand and misunderstand each other.
Staged with take-no-prisoners verve by Julia Rodriguez-Elliott and Geoff Elliott, Richard Bean’s romp of a play is a joyride through a 60s England in which would-be actors ham it up gleefully, blondes are dizzy, would-be lovers are temporarily thwarted, and positively everybody is ready to cut loose to the strains of a Beatles-inspired skiffle band.
Tarragon Theatre will kick off the 2025/26 season by announcing the World Premiere of Bremen Town, A Tarragon Theatre Production. Learn more about the show here!
STG’s Silent Movie Mondays returns to The Paramount Theatre for the 2025–26 season with four centennial classics: Battleship Potemkin, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Faust, and The General. Each screening features live organ accompaniment on the Mighty Wurlitzer.
Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara is partnering with the National Theatre of Great Britain to bring National Theatre Live productions to Santa Barbara audiences beginning in the 2025-2026 season. Learn more!
Emmy winning actor Kevin Spirtas has joined the cast in the role of Sir Simon, in The Group Rep’s haunting new musical romance, MY SPIRITS SOAR, a contemporary take on a beloved short story in the music style of Broadway-Pop, running September 26th through November 2nd at The Group Rep Theatre in North Hollywood, California.
Following a sold-out premiere in August, The Roost Revue returns for another captivating night with its vibrant celebration of song, story, and connection. On Wednesday, September 24, The Roost Loungewill come alive once again with the magic of cabaret, celebrating Seasons of Love. This evening will honor the enduring power of love and friendship, while embracing the beauty of change—perfectly timed to coincide with the autumn equinox.
The full cast has been announced for Jean Genet's The Maids – in a new translation written and directed by Kip Williams. Williams directs Yerin Ha, Phia Saban and Lydia Wilson in the world premiere of this bold new translation.
OSCAR at The Crown, a “high-energy, dance party musical” from Mark Mauriello and Andrew Barret Cox, has audiences enter an underground bunker into a dystopian world where people hide in exile because of what makes them different. They worship Julie from The OC and get their names from members of the Real Housewives series, save for Oscar Wilde, who leads the groups of exiles through never-ending song and dance.
Oscar Wilde’s scandalous novel gets a razor-edged revival at TheatreFor, where director Michael Cote and actor Juan Toro pull back the velvet curtain on The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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