Oscar Wilde News

The Jewish Theatre Workshop Presents 'The Importance of Being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde Those auditioning should prepare a short humorous speech. The director will also have sides from the script in addition to the memorized speech.

On October 12, 2009, La Jolla Playhouse will join with theatres across the country in presenting a reading of the Tectonic Theater Project's new work: The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, by The Laramie Project creators Moisés Kaufman, Leigh Fondakowski, Greg Pierotti, Andy Paris and Stephen Belber. This compelling and groundbreaking epilogue to the original piece will premiere on October 12, 2009 at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall and at more than 100 other theaters in all 50 states, Canada, Great Britain, Spain, Hong Kong and Australia.

The creators of the highly acclaimed play The Laramie Project, which since 2000 has been one of the most performed plays in America, will premiere a compelling and groundbreaking epilogue to the original piece. Entitled THE LARAMIE PROJECT: 10 YEARS LATER, the play will be performed in New York at Lincoln Center, over 100 other theaters across the country on October 12, 2009.

Good Theater, the professional theater company in residence at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress Street, on Munjoy Hill in Portland, kicks off its 8th season with the Maine premiere of the recent Broadway hit, THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED on September 17. THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED by Douglas Carter Beane plays through October 11.

Earnest has five male characters: two in their 20s, and three in their 50s-60s. There are four female roles: two ages 18-25 and two in their 50s-60s. The auditions are cold readings from the script; a British accent is preferred. No parts are pre-cast. This production will be directed by Carol Strachan and produced by Terry Yates.

Frost/Nixon the award winning play by Peter Morgan will make its Maine premiere at Good Theater beginning October 29 for a run through November 22.

Nigel Harman stars alongside Robert Daws and Steven Webb in Public Property, the darkly comic tale of a newsreader engaged in a fierce powerplay with his publicist as the paparazzi bay at the door.

Hutchins Foster (Naked Will at Celebration Theatre) joins the cast of MOM'S THE WORD presented by A Schenk You Very Much Productions. The West Coast premiere of the award-winning play by Linda A. Carson, Jill Daum, Alison Kelly, Robin Nichol, Barbara Pollard and Deborah Williams marks the first time a male actor will portray a ‘mom.' Jerry London (Emmy Award-winning mini-series Shogun) directs this production written by moms about motherhood, pregnancy and childbirth from the good, the bad and the yucky. Performances run through November 8, 2009 at the El Portal Forum Theatre (5269 Lankershim Boulevard) in North Hollywood.

New Filmmakers presents a screening of Chandra Pemmaraju's KISSING MISS JONES It all started with a Kiss, Like Oscar Wilde's quote 'A Kiss may ruin a human life', the film Kissing Miss Jones is about how a kiss had ruined Baal Pathak's life !!

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Webster University will co-host the St. Louis premiere reading of the epilogue to the acclaimed play The Laramie Project which, since its debut in 2000, has been one of the most performed plays in America.

Eric Rosen, artistic director of Kansas City Repertory Theatre, opens the Rep's 2009-10 season with the Tony Award-winning musical Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim. Broadway director Moisés Kaufman will direct.

The Pig, the Farmer, and the Artist, an operatic satire with music, book, and lyrics by 3-time Grammy-nominated composer David Chesky, will receive its world premiere at the Gene Frankel Theatre (24 Bond Street) in October.

The Pig, The Farmer, and The Artist: An Operatic Satire About Sex, Music, and Art, with music/book/lyrics by multi-Grammy-nominated composer David Chesky, will receive its world premiere performance at the Gene Frankel Theatre (24 Bond Street, in NYC's East Village - the setting for the opera), Friday, October 2, 7:00 p.m.

More theatrical performances take place every weekend here in Albuquerque than in any other U.S. city of its size. Live drama offerings range from musicals to dramas to comedies, Christian plays, children's theatre, improvisational cabaret, Shakespearean classics, American standards, and new work by emerging playwrights from a variety of backgrounds.

Onward Production and Black Swan State Theatre Company's anthology evening Seven Deadly Sins, Four Deadly Sinners, which they are presenting at the Playhouse Theatre between 21 October and 1 November.

Artistic director Jackie Maxwell and producer of the Shaw Festival announced the Shaw Festival's 2010 program this weekend. Hosted by Niagara-on-the-Lake, the festival, which operates in four venues in Ontario Canada features plays by Shaw and his contemporaries, as well as plays about the period in which he lived.

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest Opening TONIGHT, September 25 Set in England during the late Victorian era, the play's humor derives in part from characters maintaining fictitious identities to escape unwelcome social obligations.

Leicester Square Theatre is celebrating the news that a staggering 262,000 people bought tickets for its eclectic mix of big name comedy stars and cutting edge theatre in its first 12 months in the West End.

Fridays and Saturday Evenings at 8pm September 25, 2009 - October 10, 2009 Matinee on Sunday, September 27 and on Saturday, October 3 at 2pm All performances are at the Alden Theatre in the McLean Community Center 1234 Ingleside Ave, McLean, VA 22101

Earnest has five male characters: two in their 20s, and three in their 50s-60s. There are four female roles: two ages 18-25 and two in their 50s-60s. The auditions are cold readings from the script; a British accent is preferred. No parts are pre-cast. This production will be directed by Carol Strachan and produced by Terry Yates.