Oscar Wilde News

Veteran actors return to Centenary Stage Company (CSC) next month for the October production of Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily, October 7 through 23 in the Lackland Performing Arts Center in Hackettstown.  The production will be directed by Carl Wallnau, award-winning CSC Artistic Director. 

The Meeting* hosted by Justin Sayre - the monthly gathering of the International Order of Sodomites, the centuries-old organization which sets the mythic Gay Agenda - will open its eighth and final season on Sunday, September 18 at 9:30 PM at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater.

Lantern Theater Company and the Fels Institute of Government will partner to host political economist Mark Blyth for George Bernard Shaw - Theater, Economics, and Social Justice on Wednesday, September 21, 2016, at 6 p.m. on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. Presented in conjunction with the Lantern's current production of Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, Blyth will explore the play's economic themes in this one-hour program moderated by Lantern Artistic Director Charles McMahon; an audience Q&A will follow. Members of the press are invited to attend. Admission is free to the general public, but reservations are requested by visiting www.lanterntheater.org or by calling the Lantern Box Office at (215) 829-0395.

Quintessence Theatre Group continues producing progressive classic theatre and launces its seventh season with David Hare's translation of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, with original music by Michael Friedman.

In an election year filled with cults of all shapes and sizes, Steven Fales takes audiences on a journey through our cult-susceptible culture. Think of it as an entertaining TED Talk with original songs, parodies, monologues and stand-up as he leaves no cult untouched and takes no prisoners using his Cult Scale (0-6) and addressing his own personal experiences with OCD-Obsessive Cult Disorder. Leave your common sense at the door as you enter his outrageous cult of personality and perfection!.  

College of DuPage (COD) College Theater presents Oscar Wilde's "A Woman of No Importance," directed by COD Professor of Theater, Amelia Barrett at the McAninch Arts Center's Studio Theatre, Oct. 6-23. "A Woman of No Importance" premiered in 1893 in London's Haymarket Theatre. As with many of Wilde's plays, it satirizes English upper class society and features many witty, memorable and highly quotable lines, such as "Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed;" and "Nothing succeeds like excess." Please note: This play contains adult language and themes.

Tectonic Theater Project has announced casting for Tectonic At 25!, a benefit performance celebrating 25 years of groundbreaking theater.

?With an acclaimed revival of Legally Blonde still running in the theatre, Chief Executive Chris Stafford and Artistic Director Nikolai Foster announce a new season of Made At Curve productions for autumn and Christmas 2016.

A brand new production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest launches Birmingham Repertory Theatre's exciting 2016 Autumn season.

Black Moon Theatre Company presents BLISS, based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, with performances tonight, September 8, through September 25.

In Robert Askins' Hand to God, when sock puppet, Tyrone, takes on a wickedly funny and shockingly dangerous personality all his own, the introverted teenager, Jason, who created him finds his world turned inside out. Crude, lewd Tyrone has a knack for telling the truth Jason never could and his small Texas town and Christian puppet club will never be the same in this riotous Broadway hit comedy... Warning: Graphic puppet sex and devilish behavior (so leave the kids at home).

Only one other writer could compete with Shakespeare for the title of the most quoted playwright, and that is Oscar Wilde. Long Beach playhouse takes on an all female cast with The Importance of Being Earnest directed by 'Phie Mura in the Studio.

On September 3, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest takes the upstairs stage in the Long Beach Playhouse's Studio Theatre.

The Concierge of Vancouver is the world premiere of a play satirizing the Vancouver housing crisis and looks at the consequences of skyrocketing real estate prices and living costs.. An expensive condo building in Coal Harbour, barely occupied... a reclusive donor, giving away millions of dollars each year to fund worthy causes... and, an international bank under scrutiny by a tenacious reporter... What is the connection?

In an election year filled with cults of all shapes and sizes, Steven Fales takes audiences on a journey through our cult-susceptible culture. Think of it as an entertaining TED Talk with original songs, parodies, monologues and stand-up as he leaves no cult untouched and takes no prisoners using his Cult Scale (0-6) and addressing his own personal experiences with OCD-Obsessive Cult Disorder. Leave your common sense at the door as you enter his outrageous cult of personality and perfection!.  

FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade in association with Hard Sparks will present the World Premiere of J.Stephen Brantley's THE JAMB, directed by David Drake, tonight, September 1, through September 17 at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery) with performances Today through Saturday at 7pm.

On September 3, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest takes the upstairs stage in the Long Beach Playhouse's Studio Theatre.

The Washington Stage Guild announces the 2016-2017 season of our distinctive repertory, an array of eloquent plays of idea and argument, passion and wit-smart theatre for a smart town!

Following the receipt of the UK Theatre Promotion of Diversity Award, Curve is to host a national conference exploring diversity in UK theatre and the current landscape for BAME artists, companies and audiences.