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

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

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

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

Al Pacino is not who Oscar Wilde had in mind when he wrote “Salomé.” One of Wilde’s lesser-produced plays, “Salomé” dramatizes the Biblical story of King Herod and his stepdaughter, who danced for him ...

The documentary will make its debut at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 4. By Rebecca Ford By the look of things, Al Pacino has a lot on his plate. He’s directing and starring in a play, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Al Pacino's movie "Wilde Salome" is a complicated examination of Oscar Wilde's once-forbidden play about illicit love and revenge. But his inspiration was simple: Jessica Chastain. "There is Jessica ...