The British Library has announced it will posthumously reinstate gay poet and playwright Oscar Wilde’s reader pass after revoking it in 1895 due to his homosexuality. Known at the time as the ...

Oscar Wilde's much-loved comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest, is set to delight audiences at a screening at Reading Rep Theatre. The play, directed by Max Webster, is a lively take on Wilde's ...

In 2021, Banksy revealed a mural of Oscar Wilde, clad in prisoner garb, making an escape from the abandoned Reading jail.The artist claimed that he would donate profits from the sale of the stencil he ...

Oscar Wilde at one point adopted the green carnation as a personal symbol. Photo: ARCHIVIO GBB/Alamy With “The Wildes,” the novelist Louis Bayard has posed himself a considerable challenge.

Australian director and playwright Kip Williams is one of those making the effort. His adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is now on Broadway after an Olivier Award-winning ...

The British Library has announced it will posthumously reinstate gay poet and playwright Oscar Wilde’s reader pass after revoking it in 1895 due to his homosexuality. Known at the time as the ...

Oscar Wilde’s prison cell in Reading Gaol as it appears today. Jack1956/Wiki Commons “Like ape or clown, in monstrous garb,” he writes, the inmates silently trudge the prison yard in their ...