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Review: Wonder and Joy and Questions, The Happy Prince & Other Tales, by Oscar Wilde

It’s something of a surprise to be reminded that Oscar Wilde—the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and the subject of a scandalous 1895 trial over consensual homosexual acts—wrote […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • August 24, 2023
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Theatre Above The Law Twists Gender and Identity in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest

    Oscar Wilde is remembered for being a poet and playwright as well as the victim of a criminal conviction for “gross indecency” because of consensual homosexual acts. He possessed a […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • April 25, 2023
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde; ‘Genderblind’ and Disobedient to the Core

    Imagine Oscar Wilde, the man who practically invented epigrams (the antiquated version of a verbal burn), standing trial, and being bullied into reframing his aestheticism in to something callous and […]

  • Kim Campbell
  • February 26, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: What Oscar Wilde Means to Rupert Everett, and the Most Poignant Scene in The Happy Prince

    Rupert Everett The Happy Prince

    Acting primarily in UK productions since the mid-1980s, actor Rupert Everett truly broke out to American audiences beginning in the mid-1990s, with supporting appearances in Robert Altman’s Ready to Wear […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • October 29, 2018
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Rupert Everett Impresses In Front of and Behind the Camera in The Happy Prince

    The Happy Prince

    I’m sure I’m not the first person to make this statement, but there is quite simply no actor on the planet more suited to play the late author/playwright/literary genius Oscar […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • October 26, 2018
    • Stages , Theater

    City Lit’s Picture of Dorian Gray Misses Wilde Glitter With Flawed Adaptation and Casting

    The Picture of Dorian Gray, the only novel by the brilliant Irish playwright and poet, Oscar Wilde, is loaded with Wildean bon mots. It is one of the most quotable […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • March 13, 2018
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