Oscar Wilde News

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.

Today's Broadway Blogs on BroadwayWorld.com from Monday, August 17, 2009.

This coming Monday August 17th the hit show 'The Temperamentals' by Jon Marans continues the populart Militant Mondays, a series of talk backs following the performance. Charles Busch, Daryl Roth & Jon Marans will lead the lively discussion.

I'll readily admit to letting out a quiet, though not exactly inaudible, 'Wow,' as I entered the main auditorium at 59E59 and took a first glimpse at Kris Stone's New York apartment set for Primary Stages' premiere production of Cusi Cram's A Lifetime Burning. The high-ceilinged collection of sharp angles, backed by exposed brick, colored in blue pastel and embellished by furnishings by Eva Zeisel (I had to look it up), immediately grabbed my interest and had me anxious to meet whomever it was who might be living there.

Marin Shakespeare Company presents Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Set in Victorian England, Oscar Wilde's witty comedy makes fun of the British upper class as it follows the follies of two young eligible bachelors when they court two young women. One of the wittiest plays ever written. It features George Maguire as Lady Bracknell with an all Equity cast.

The Guthrie today announced the complete cast and creative team for director Joe Dowling's upcoming production of Oscar Wilde's most perfect comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, with actress Linda Thorson (best known for her role as Tara King in the classic 1960s British television series 'The Avengers') leading the company as Lady Bracknell.

The Deep Dish Theater Company will open its 2009-2010 season with Summer and Smoke, Tennessee Williams' stirring drama of romantic yearning. Directed by Deep Dish Resident Director Tony Lea, the play will run from August 28 to September 19 at the company's home in Chapel Hill's University Mall.

Al Pacino is set to star as 'Herod' in the upcoming film 'Mary, Mother of Christ.' The multi-award winning actor will star alongside Camilla Belle, Al Pacino, Peter O'Toole, Julia Ormond and Hollywood newcomer Diogo Morgado, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The fifth mainstage summer production at Cortland Repertory Theatre will be the theatre's regional debut of the timely, riveting and highly theatrical courtroom drama Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.

The Deep Dish Theater Company will open its 2009-2010 season with Summer and Smoke, Tennessee Williams' stirring drama of romantic yearning. Directed by Deep Dish Resident Director Tony Lea, the play will run from August 28 to September 19 at the company's home in Chapel Hill's University Mall.

Deep Dish Theater Company announces the lineup for its 2009-2010 season, marking the theater's ninth year at the company's home in Chapel Hill's University Mall.

The fifth mainstage summer production at Cortland Repertory Theatre will be the theatre's regional debut of the timely, riveting and highly theatrical courtroom drama Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. From August 5 - 15, playwright Moisés Kaufman's play will be on the CRT stage in the Edward Jones Playhouse at the Little York Pavilion.

The Sherman Playhouse is proud to debut its summer production of SALOMÉ, Oscar Wilde's classic drama based on the biblical story of John the Baptist, on July 24.

August: Osage County, the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play that tells the bitingly funny and sensationally entertaining tale of the Weston family of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, starring Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons in the role of the family matriarch, Violet, will launch its national tour, in Denver, CO on July 24th, 2009. Following two weeks at Denver's Ellie Caukins Opera House (7/24-8/8), the show will play San Francisco's Curran Theatre from August 11 - September 6, 2009. Subsequent engagements will be announced shortly. Ms. Parsons is currently appearing in the show on Broadway where The New York Times recently raved, 'Estelle Parsons gives a superb performance...sends chills down your spine. It may prove to be a crowning moment in an illustrious career.' Ms. Parsons joined the company in June, 2008. Estelle Parsons first foray into the business began when she was hired by 'The Today Show,' first as a production assistant, then staff writer, which eventually led her to become the first female television network political news reporter. Estelle began acting and appeared in her first stage performance on Broadway in Happy Hunting. Since then, Estelle has gone on to either star in or direct over 25 productions. Most notably, she has been nominated for the Tony Award for her performances in The Seven Descents of Myrtle, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Miss Margarida's Way and Mornings at Seven.

Gwen Taylor is to join Matt Lucas and Chris New in Daniel Kramer's production of Prick Up Your Ears, a new play by Simon Bent. Inspired exclusively by the John Lahr biography and the diaries of Joe Orton, Prick Up Your Ears examines the private lives of these two extraordinary men.

This summer the Tony Award®-winning Signature Theatre, one of the nation?s leading forces in musical theater, launches 21/24 Signature Lab, a new initiative for the creation of musical theatre works by emerging young composers which gives audiences a first look at new musicals.

This summer, The Sherman Playhouse is proud to present SALOMÉ, the rarely-seen biblical drama by Oscar Wilde, arguably the greatest English Language playwright of the 19th Century. The production opens July 24 for a four-week run.

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.

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE opens St. Louis Shakespeare's 25th anniversary season, directed by Jerry Vogel. MERCHANT runs July 17 through 26, 2009, Friday and Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2pm, and Thursday at 7:30pm. At the Grandel Theatre, 3610 Grandel Square.

The Sherman Playhouse is proud to debut its summer production of SALOMÉ, Oscar Wilde's classic drama based on the biblical story of John the Baptist, on July 24.