The tale of a Dublin bus conductor with a yen for Oscar Wilde drives this fantastic revival of 'A Man of No Importance,' from the 'Ragtime' team of Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens.

Two New York productions of Strauss’s opera reposition its necrophiliac protagonist as a perverse instrument of justice.

The famous playwright Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas ... a private and very special performance of his play Salome, banned by the authorities, in which Taylor himself and the ...

The movie is set in a small rural town of Mississippi during one Easter week. As this town is going through another night, everything seems quiet and peaceful, except the busy rehearsal of an amateur ...

Image Elza van den Heever, in black, and Peter Mattei in “Salome ... Kubrick’s film “Eyes Wide Shut,” Guth has infused the opera, an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s decadent retelling ...

Imago Theatre satiates these lusts with an English translation of Oscar Wilde’s Salome, an early play using the biblical story of John the Baptist’s execution as a vehicle for his deeply 19th ...

An adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s early tragedy Salome will be showing at Imago Theatre on Southeast 8th Avenue from April 11 – 27th. Two stars from the local production tell us what makes the ...

And in the morbid spectacle of Salome kissing John’s severed head—as seen in Oscar Wilde’s 1893 play, the source for Strauss’s 1905 adaptation—it still has the power to shock.

Egoyan wrote the film encouraged by his own remounting ... Gustave Flaubert's 1877 short story "Hérodias," which heavily influenced Wilde, sees Salome's mother using her daughter's beauty and ...

The film follows Jeanine (Seyfried), a theater director making her return to opera by mounting a production of Salome. The play, originally written by Oscar Wilde, is a telling of the classical ...

Wilde had long been a fan of Gustave Flaubert’s 1877 short story about Salome’s mother, Queen Herodias, and he decided it was his turn to give the enticing tale a go. The author of such ...

seduced as much by Strauss’s score as by Salome herself. It is a nasty piece of work but a depiction of desires too powerful to be contained. Strauss’s opera, an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s ...