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1 week ago | 
engelsbergideas.com | Oscar Wilde |Alexandra Wilson
Cream linen, striped blazers, straw boaters. Tennis parties, cycling excursions, lazy afternoons on the river. ‘Jerusalem’, ‘I was glad’, music-hall songs. This is what the word ‘Edwardian’ conjures up for me, my impressions of the era shaped by E. Nesbit, refined by E.M. Forster, and no doubt distorted by films and television dramas that may or may not have done it justice.
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2 months ago | 
racinecountyeye.com | Oscar Wilde |Gordon Greenberg |Steve Rosen |David Lindsay-Abaire
RACINE, WI - The Racine Theatre Guild (RTG) on March 11 announced the plays and musicals that will be a part of the volunteer-based community theatre's 88th, 2025-26 mainstage season.
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2 months ago | 
intermissionmagazine.ca | Oscar Wilde |Liam Donovan
iPhoto caption: Photo courtesy of Grand Theatre.
The Grand Theatre in London, Ontario has announced its six-show 2025-26 subscription season, which includes three musicals, a pair of comedies, and the winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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2 months ago | 
gavi.org | Oscar Wilde |Maya T. Prabhu
We are flung crying into the world, in some place, on some rung of the social ladder and at some moment in history, and that conjuncture has a great deal to do with how long we get to stay. Among contemporaries, disease far more often emphasises disparities of advantage than levels it – this is an avoidable, culpable fact. But even giants (whether elevated by birth or achievement or both) are perfectly vulnerable to being born too soon. Here are seven of them.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
wifr.com | Neil Simon |Lillian Hellman |Oscar Wilde
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - Rockford Theatre Guild is a new, professional theatre company that’s working with Rockford University’s Performing Arts Department to bring the spotlight to classic plays. Rockford Theatre Guild will be hosting three open houses over the next month. Each open house is centered around the reading of a classic play, which will feature Rockford University students, alumni and faculty.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Oscar Wilde
George V and Queen Mary surrounded themselves with fashionable society figures known as the Marlborough House Set Credit: Royal Collection Trust/PA A Fabergé cigarette case given to King Edward VII by an ancestor of the Queen will be featured in a new Buckingham Palace exhibition on the Edwardian Era. The Edwardians: Age of Elegance will delve into the family lives, personal collections, global travels and glittering social circles of two of British history’s most fashionable royal couples –...
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
informe56.com | Oscar Wilde
«El valor de una idea no tiene nada que ver con la sinceridad del hombre que la expresa» “El mejor antídoto para estacionar a un lado del camino la turbulencia verbal que ha ocasionado el anuncio de una Reforma Fiscal, solo se calmará cuando se enfrenten las Águilas Cibaeñas y los Tigres del Licey y eso quedará demostrado el sábado 26 de octubre. ¡Vúa al Águila!…arenga en una décima Huchi Lora y el coro la corona con un “Afisealo Tekuilve” al ritmo de la “Leña” de Tatán Jiménez o Picholo Cordero.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
informe56.com | Oscar Wilde
«Algunas personas causan felicidad a donde van; otras, cuando se van» “De nuevo el panorama de las Grandes Ligas nos presenta “todas las posibilidades” de una posible Serie Mundial entre los Yankees de New York y los Dodgers de Los Angeles.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
destructoid.com | John Steinbeck |Harper Lee |Oscar Wilde |Jonathan Wright
As the conversation in literary circles moves more toward current trends in the so-called “BookTok” community, it’s becoming harder and harder to make a to-be-read list that includes great works from the classical catalog, or even more modern literature.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
informe56.com | Oscar Wilde
«Que hablen de uno es espantoso. Pero hay algo peor: que no hablen» “El viernes 17 de septiembre del 2010, José Bautista le cantó a George Antonio Bell, el hijo de mantequilla, la canción de Eddie Dee “Los 12 discípulos”, mejor conocida como “Quitate tú pa´ponerme yo”.
