The music gives complexity and dimension to this gritty and decadent tale. But the production has shifted the action to ...

Across history, the opera has run afoul of censors for its brutality and nudity. The current production at the Lyric Opera of ...

Lyric stages Richard Strauss's twisted but thrilling Salome, based on Oscar Wilde's play, for the first time in 20 years.

Original director David McVicar’s famous production of the Richard Strauss opera gets its bloody, eye-popping U.S. debut in ...

“Salome,” a one-act tragedy by the Irish playwright, terrified the Victorian public with its provocative depiction of a teenage girl whose lust for a man quickly morphs into bloodlust E.R. Zarevich ...

Good Day Chicago’s Gabriella Premus goes behind the curtain at the Lyric Opera House for a closer look at Salome, the bold ...

The poster for the new production of Salome (image courtesy the theater company) Unlike the majority of Oscar Wilde’s works, his tragedy Salomé (1891) is not a crowd-pleaser. Given the subject matter ...

Still in the mood for a Wicked-style fan fiction that rivals its source’s weirdness? What about the criminally rotted horniness of Nosferatu? Imago Theatre satiates these lusts with an English ...

The Oscar winner will take part in a Q&A session hosted by Stephen Fry in London, discussing his passion for the projects based on the famous Oscar Wilde play. By Stuart Kemp More personal and ...

Directed by prominent American actor Al Pacino, the production is based on Irish author Oscar Wilde's 1893 play “Salomé”. Following the screening, there will be a review session featuring Iranian ...