Oscar Wilde News

Oscar Wilde's hilarious and timeless comedy classic The Importance of Being Earnest will be presented at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich (Friday 17 September to Saturday 9 October).

Rep Stage, the professional Equity theatre in residence at Howard Community College (HCC), kicks off its 18th season with Giles Havergal's adaptation of Graham Greene's 'Travels With My Aunt.'

Producer Daryl Roth announces that following a sold out developmental run last spring, THE DIVINE SISTER, the new comedy written by and starring Charles Busch, directed by Carl Andress, will transfer to the SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam Street) featuring the entire original company: Alison Fraser, Amy Rutberg, Jennifer Van Dyck, Jonathan Walker, and Julie Halston.

Ding Dong, from Sexe et Jalousie by Marc Camoletti, translated by Tudor Gates and directed by Amanda Rees, featuring Clare Adams, Sophia Elisabeth, John Glass, Anna Henare, Elizabeth McGlinn and Tim Raby, will play The Fortune Theatre in its NZ Premiere from August 20th - September 11th 2010.

Uncensored, uncut and as unpredictable as ever, Irish comedian Dylan Moran brings his hilarious, oxygen-depriving show DYLAN MORAN LIVE! to San Francisco's Marines' Memorial Theatre (609 Sutter St., 2nd floor) for one night only on Saturday, September 11 at 8 p.m.

For the fifth production in their 39th annual season, Cortland Repertory Theatre will present the Central New York premiere of the modern comedy/drama 'Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks' by Richard Alfieri.

Following on the heels of last year's sensational Il mondo della luna at the Hayden Planetarium, Gotham Chamber Opera announces that The New 42nd Street presents, at The New Victory Theater, a Gotham Chamber Opera and Tectonic Theater Project production in association with Blind Summit Theatre, Xavier Montsalvatge's El gato con botas (Puss in Boots), a stunning new production of the classic children's tale directed by Moisés Kaufman and conducted by Neal Goren, which will be presented in October 2010.

Now in its 46th year, the Evanston-based Savoyaires theater company continues to bring Gilbert & Sullivan to Chicago's North Shore. This year the company has assembled a stellar artistic staff to present Gilbert & Sullivan's last smash hit, The Gondoliers, or The King of Barataria.

Classic Stage Company presents the New York premiere of Sarah Ruhl's ORLANDO, adapted from the work of Virgina Woolf and directed by Rebecca Taichman. Performances begin September 8, 2010.

Classic Stage Company presents the New York premiere of Sarah Ruhl's ORLANDO, adapted from the work of Virgina Woolf and directed by Rebecca Taichman. Performances begin September 8, 2010.

From Saturday, September 4, 2010 to Monday, September 6, 2010, the Kennedy Center will host its ninth annual Page to Stage new play festival, featuring more than 40 theaters from the D.C. metropolitan area, all with a mission to produce and support new work.

From Saturday, September 4, 2010 to Monday, September 6, 2010, the Kennedy Center will host its ninth annual Page to Stage new play festival, featuring more than 40 theaters from the D.C. metropolitan area, all with a mission to produce and support new work.

Henthorne Performing Arts Center will present 'Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde' Moises Kaufman, author of The Laramie Project. Kaufman brings to life poet and author Oscar Wilde and the public trials that ruined him. Wilde, on trial for 'gross indecency,' was at the height of his fame as the author of The Importance of Being Earnest and 'The Picture of Dorian Gray.' He first treated the trials as if they were theatre, but later found himself fighting for his freedom and his life. Using real quotes and transcripts from the courtroom, Gross Indecency shows a man having to defend himself -- and his art -- against a society's intolerance.

TheatreSquared announced casting for Alfred Hitchcock's THE 39 STEPS, now in rehearsal and opening September 3.

The Irish Repertory Theatre's hit revival THE IRISH...AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt ('Angela's Ashes') will close on September 26, 2010. The production is Directed by Charlotte Moore, who helmed the recent Broadway concert version of BRIGADOON.

Italy's Dario D'Ambrosi, a radical innovator of the theater and founder of the movement called Teatro Patologico (Pathological Theater), will direct his newest play, 'Bong Bong Bong against the Walls, Ting Ting Ting in our Heads,' as the opening production of 'La MaMa Puppet Series IV--Built to Perform.'

For the fifth production in their 39th annual season, Cortland Repertory Theatre will present the Central New York premiere of the modern comedy/drama 'Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks' by Richard Alfieri.

On Wednesday, September 15th at 6:30PM, the Broadway community will gather alongside Stephen Sondheim as the lights of the newly dedicated Stephen Sondheim Theatre marquee are lit for the first time.

On the heels of successfully producing critically acclaimed runs of three productions at La MaMa E.T.C. (What If? - A Musical Concert, DIE - An Existential Comedy & Under The Veil - Being Muslim and Non-Muslin in America post 9/11), Mind The Art Entertainment is teaming up with Robert R. Blume to produce the U.S. premiere of Spellbound- A Musical Adventure at the New York International Fringe Festival (August 3 - 29, 2010).

Muses are not easy things to have around...especially when they appear in the form of an assy, brassy Texas cowgirl so starved for sex she molests dwarves, sucks the fingers of perfect strangers and incites stray dogs to gather in the street. What's a tough-guy writer from Chicago to do? Jump out the window of his fancy Paris hotel room, of course. Only this girl can always do him one better...