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

The music gives complexity and dimension to this gritty and decadent tale. But the production has shifted the action to fascist Italy of the 1930s, setting up weird geographical and chronological ...

Olivia Wilde modeled multiple divisive trends at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, including a "naked dress," barrel jeans, ...

The story of Salome comes to us from the Bible. She is the daughter of Herodias and Herod II. Her mother later marries her ...

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

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

The US-Ireland Alliance has announced that acclaimed Irish actor Domhnall Gleeson will be honored with an Oscar Wilde Award at their upcoming event in March 2026. He is set to accept the accolade at ...

The busy Irish actor, star of ‘The Paper,’ will take to the podium March 12 at the Ebell theater in Los Angeles. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor The event, organized by the US-Ireland Alliance, is set ...

Eight-year-old Merlin Holland was walking down Shaftesbury Avenue in London with his father one day in the summer of 1954 when he noticed the name Oscar Wilde on a theater billboard. “Oh, Daddy, isn’t ...

When “The Importance of Being Earnest,” by Oscar Wilde, opened, on February 14, 1895, in London, the date was well chosen. It was the Victorians, after all, who decisively turned the feast of St.

For book lovers, the news that Cambridge University has acquired a previously sealed personal archive of Amy Levy, a Victorian Jewish novelist and poet who won praise from literary notables of her era ...