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The School for Wives by Moliere
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 1622-1673, writing and acting under his stage name of Moliere, was a master of comic theatre whose influence remains strong even today.
Theatrical Productions
Speech and Debate by Stephen Karam
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Stephen Karam is co-author of Columbinus (2006 Helen hayes nomination), which ran at New York Theatre Workshop following a co-production by Round House/Perseverance Theatres. His last two plays, Speech & Debate and Girl on Girl, debuted as workshop production at the Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre. He is currently working on a new play commission for Roundabout Theatre Company, and opera libretto and a screenplay adaptation of Speech & Debate for Overture Films.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin on October 16th, 1854. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1878. His espousal of the fin de siècle Aesthetic Movement, which preached devotion to art above all else, resulted in acclaim from some, and deep hostility from others. In 1882 Wilde arrived in North America to give a lecture tour, announcing as he landed that he had ‘nothing to declare but my genius'.