Same Humor, Different Politics Jul 8, 2008
An Ideal Husband': Same humor, new politics. Article:'An Ideal Husband': Same humor, new politics:/c/a/2008/07/06/DD6111HK8V.DTL Article:'An Ideal Husband': Same humor, new politics:/c/a/2008/07/06/DD6111HK8V.DTL ... An Ideal Husband': Same humor, new politics. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
The Magnolia Arts Center begins summer season with the Oscar Wilde drama, 'An Ideal Husband' Jun 13, 2008
The Magnolia Arts Center begins summer season with the Oscar Wilde drama, 'An Ideal Husband ... The Magnolia Arts Center begins summer season with the Oscar Wilde drama, 'An Ideal Husband ... An Ideal Husband' is a nice balance, I think. (The Daily Reflector)
Events listings May 18, 2008
7/30-8/10: "An Ideal Husband.". 8/13-8/31: "Our Town.". (Boston Globe)
'An Ideal Husband' May 13, 2008
Suellen Fitzsimmons Paul Todaro brings a bit of nastiness to Lord Goring and Anwen Darcy a touch of insouciance to Mabel Chiltern in Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre's "An Ideal Husband.". Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre begins its series of Oscar Wilde plays with a delightful production of "An Ideal Husband." It's crisp and lively and embraces all of the play's best qualities -- its witty language and juicy characters ... "An Ideal Husband" begins at Lady Chiltern's dinner party, a... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
'King Lear' opens Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre season Apr 7, 2008
An informal Wilde festival begins with "An Ideal Husband" (May 8-31), in which a star politician is threatened by a secret from his past -- shades of Eliot Spitzer. Whalen plays the politician, with Beth Hylton ("Private Lives") as his wife, Todaro as the Wilde-like aesthete and Californian Nike (Nickey) Doukas as the woman with a past. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Community events Apr 4, 2008
The Magnolia Arts Center will hold auditions for its summer plays, An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (June 13-15 and June 20-21) and Three Wise Fools by Austin Strong (August), from 6-9 p.m. April 21 and April 25 in the Fulford 153 auditorium on Pitt Community College s campus. Visit. (The Daily Reflector)
Lamb's version of 'Ideal Husband' is nearly that Oct 16, 2007
Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, now in an engaging though uneven production at Lamb's Players, has new relevance during our new Gilded Age ... The play's moral core is thus thoughtful and serious, but this is Wilde, after all, and other facets of An Ideal Husband possess his usual comic dazzle. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Wilde's An Ideal Husband - on Film Oct 15, 2007
A lively and entertaining film version of Wilde's "An Ideal Husband" stars Rupert Everett, Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver and Jeremy Northam. Before Rupert Everett made the fantastic 2002 version of The Importance of Being Earnest with Colin Firth, he starred in another Oscar Wilde adaptation: An Ideal Husband ... This production of An Ideal Husband handles a complex plot with a light touch; the accusations and misunderstandings are dramatic and comic in the right places, without any accidental... (Suite101.com)
Consistent Cate Oct 11, 2007
Always comfortable in costume, in 1999, she followed Elizabeth with The Talented Mr. Ripley and an adaptation of Oscar Wilde s An Ideal Husband. From Italy-bound American, circa 1950s, to a duped Victorian wife she also starred in the contemporary comedy Pushing Tin that year Blanchett has revealed a timeless, borderless acting ability. (Suite101.com)
PICT thinks big for the 2008 season Sep 26, 2007
The more conventional Wilde (if anything by Wilde is ever conventional) is the witty political melodrama, "An Ideal Husband" (May 8-31). As PICT did with "Stuff Happens" and "Julius Caesar," "Salome" and "Ideal Husband" will share the same acting company. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Bard-like take on Wilde a triumph Aug 15, 2007
Yet Monette has staged An Ideal Husband as if it were a Shakespearean comedy ... An Ideal Husband continues through Oct. 27 at the Festival Theatre. (Waterloo Record)
Monette bows out with hollow Husband Aug 15, 2007
RICHARD BAIN PHOTO Brian Tree, left, Sean Arbuckle and Sara Topham star in a puzzling production of An Ideal Husband ... The Richard Monette Era at the Stratford Festival came to its conclusion on Saturday night with a baffling production of Oscar Wilde's fascinating play, An Ideal Husband. (Toronto Star)
You might want to leave this Husband Aug 14, 2007
The cast got all dressed up in period costumes, acted out the plot of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband without bumping into furniture or fumbling lines, got their laughs and, presumably, paycheques, and called it a day ... Still, there are enough social and political overtones in An Ideal Husband (1895) to give play and playwright a new lease on stage life for a skeptic like myself. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Lush Romanticism triumphs in two Bard operas Aug 4, 2007
The 19th-century poet, dramatist and wit once quipped, "The first duty in life is to assume a pose." In this vein, Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray comes readily to mind, as does An Ideal Husband. But Wilde also explored these themes in the dramatic fragment A Florentine Tragedy and the novella The Birthday of the Infanta. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Two Canadian theater festivals underway Jun 22, 2007
Cleveland Jewish News. Compiled by Jessica Axel and Amanda Korman, CJN Interns. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
News in brief May 16, 2007
Drama on 3 will also broadcast a new radio adaptation of An Ideal Husband, an Oscar Wilde play, and David Pownall's play Elgar's Rondo. Ben Dowell. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
* 'A Good Woman' fails to transcend even barbarism May 4, 2007
The solid performances of Wilkinson, Moore and the supporting British cast notwithstanding, the movie is so flat that it almost makes you grateful for Oliver Parker's recent flawed screen adaptations of Wilde, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest. Those films also played fast and loose with Wilde (Earnest, which verged on farce, brought in gimmicks like helium balloons and found Reese Witherspoon struggling to appear authentically English), but nothing like this. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
HE'S CAST BOTH WAYS Jan 12, 2007
" He has played it straight in such films as "Dance With a Stranger" and two Oscar Wilde movies, "An Ideal Husband" and "The Importance of Being Earnest. " (He also had a funny supporting turn in "Stage Beauty," as a wacky King Charles II.) In his life story, however, Mr. Everett doesn't give us too much detail about his attachments to men. What he seems besotted with are the women he has encountered along the way. (He even slept with some of these beauties in his rather distracted life.) His... (New York Post -- Gossip)
Vatican embraces Wilde Jan 5, 2007
Father Sapienza said that Wilde had been a great writer of powerful force and dazzling intelligence who was now chiefly remembered not for his promiscuity but for plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband as well as moral tales such as The Picture of Dorian Gray, in which a vain young man pays a terrible price for selling his soul to gain eternal youth. Father Sapienza said that he wanted to stimulate a reawakening in certain Catholic circles. (TimesOnline)
