Wilde

"...Zoë Wanamaker and Tom Wilkinson. This film portrait of Oscar Wilde, which is based on Richard Ellman's biography of..."

June 19, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wilde Life

"..."I'd like to welcome all the Walk-on-the-Wilde-Siders!" announced State Theater Company artistic director Don Toner during..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Learning One's Letters

Why was Oscar Wilde's 'Letter to Momma' lurking undiscovered in Texas?

"...to be the earliest known letter ever written by Oscar Wilde. The "Letter to Momma," as it's come to..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Books Feature by James McWilliams

The Importance of Being Earnest

For better or worse, Oliver Parker's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's comedy of mistaken identities liberates the play from its drawing-room trappings.

"...to great success. And Oliver Parker's new version of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest doesn't even deviate..."

May 31, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Man of No Importance

"...a Dublin bus driver with a deep appreciation for Oscar Wilde. There are few gray areas for Alfie: You're..."

Feb. 17, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

The Happy Prince

Tragic Oscar Wilde biopic flies sporadically

"...The final three years of Oscar Wilde’s life, which are dramatized in The Happy Prince,..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

An Ideal Husband

The Oscar Wilde drama about deceit and honor is presented by a solid cast.

"...John Wood and Peter Vaughan. It would seem, given Oscar Wilde's immortal rapier wit and cinema's recent affinity for..."

July 2, 1999 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

A Four Letter Word

This tale of an unapologetically promiscuous New Yorker settles for the easy trifles of romantic comedy.

"...as a “gay cliché,” a living, lisping, leather-vest-wearing, casual-sex-indulging, Oscar-Wilde-lite-bon-mot-tossing, ultimately damaging symbol of male homosexuality that squeamish Middle..."

May 23, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Walker

Woody Harrelson stars as a professional escort for political wives in this Paul Schrader movie about sex, murder, scandal, and adultery in Washington, D.C.

"...Virginia syrup, Carter Page III (Harrelson) is a Southern Oscar Wilde let loose in present-day Washington, D.C. His role..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

What Love Is

Writer/director Callahan keeps his characters talking from the first frame to the last – and like all great chatterers their preferred topic is love and all its variations.

"...pontificate. And like all great chatterers, from Socrates to Oscar Wilde, their preferred topic is love and all its..."

March 23, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

A Good Woman

Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan is here set among Jazz Age expatriates cold-chillin' on the Italian coast, and the result is not quite as dishy as one might hope.

"...veteran Barker and his screenwriter (novice Howard Himmelstein) set Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan) among Jazz Age expatriates cold-chillin'..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Cruise

"...realizes. Combining the wry, outrageous wit of a modern-day Oscar Wilde with a healthy dose of NYC angst and..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

"...swarm of comic observation, as densely packed as an Oscar Wilde comedy, and as precisely worded, with Wagner's wit..."

May 21, 1993 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Review: The City Theatre’s An Ideal Husband

It’s the girls gone Wilde that rule this rendering

"...An Ideal Husband is not Oscar Wilde's wittiest work. Most fans would agree that The..."

March 11, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Mordecai Richler once remarked that 'the novelist's primary moral responsibility is to be the loser's advocate.' It's difficult to imagine how anyone who takes that dictum to heart could outdo Junot Díaz here.

"...The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Waoby Junot Díaz Riverhead, 352 pp., $24.95..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Books Review by Rayyan Al-Shawaf

An Ideal Husband

The overall feel of the Austin Playhouse production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband is polite and relaxed, but the actors do provide gut-busting performances

"...Perhaps she's a piece that represents the opulence of Oscar Wilde's comedy of manners from an era of "dowdies..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oracle Theater Company makes its debut with a production of The Importance of Being Earnest, and just as there is much to admire in Oscar Wilde's play, there is much to admire in Oracle's production, starting with the work of director / designer Russell L. Wiseman.

"...When Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest premiered at the..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily

Austin Playhouse's Sherlockian pastry may be light, but Jason Newman's Great Detective is seriously good

"...Watson, but also legendary actress Lillie Langtry and author Oscar Wilde (!) – is, thankfully, in the latter category...."

Dec. 5, 2014 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Review: City Theatre’s The Importance of Being Earnest

The air’s a tad thin in this production of Oscar Wilde’s work

"...For those venturing into Oscar Wilde’s literary realm of Victorian entitlement and excess –..."

June 8, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

The Capote Tapes

A literary life of oblivious self-destruction

"...But much like what happened to his spiritual forebear, Oscar Wilde, excess and hubris eventually sabotaged Capote’s success, relegating..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Travesties

Tom Stoppard's Travesties mixes early 20th-century history, European politics, and Oscar Wilde into a typically brilliant work, and the cast of Austin Playhouse's production rises to the intellectual challenges of the script and appears to be having a fine time playing with it.

"...'Travesties': Wilde Nights in Old Zurich..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...This year's Oscar winner for best foreign picture is a Dutch epic..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

SXSW Adds 102 Movies to 2019 Film Festival Lineup

After Us, what else does the film fest have in store?

"...of movies and shows, with new films from Olivia Wilde, Robert Rodriguez, Christopher Morris, and more...."

Jan. 16, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

An Ideal Husband

Different Stages' production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband is not just community theatre at its finest; it's just plain good theatre: entertaining, impressive, astounding, and delightful.

"...describe my reaction to this Different Stages production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband. Here's what I came up..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Confessions of a Cowboy

Working a cattle drive in Texas in the 1870s probably wasn't like what you imagine; ask Frank Harris -- he was there and he knows.

"...Star-Spangled Eden: 19th-Century America Through the Eyes of Dickens, Wilde, Frances Trollope, Frank Harris, and Other British Travelers by..."

May 26, 2000 Books Feature by James C. Simmons

The Importance of Being Earnest

At Mary Moody Northen Theatre, Oscar Wilde's comedy is not only wonderfully expressed but played with remarkable accuracy

"...typically reserved for those with coattails and batons. But Oscar Wilde's scherzo of a text is molded here with..."

April 19, 2013 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, October 28 - November 3

"...23-Sept. 22): "Education is an admirable thing," said author Oscar Wilde. "But it is well to remember that nothing..."

Oct. 28, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

All Is True

"Who is it that can tell me who I am?" Not this Shakespeare biopic.

"...Brannagh. Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Lydia Wilson, Kathryn Wilder, Hadley Fraser, Ian McKellen, Gerard Horan and Sam Ellis...."

May 31, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Slut in a Good Way

Charming sex-positive teen comedy is good old shameless fun

"...“Youth is wasted on the young” (George Bernard Shaw? Oscar Wilde? Believe me, it’s an internet rabbit hole I..."

March 29, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Nuts!

Stranger-than-fiction doc about an eccentric doctor

"...with the hubristic fate of the flamboyant Victorian wit Oscar Wilde, who filed a similar lawsuit decades earlier in..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

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