Former Conservative MP Gyles Brandreth is to don a bra, stockings and high heels to play Lady Bracknell in a musical version of Oscar Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest... more
The potters, the printers and cabinet makers take pride of place in the V&A's rambling survey of British Aesthetes, but it's a smaller section devoted to the grace and grandeur of the painters that makes it worth a visit
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Lindsay Posner’s take on An Ideal Husband becomes glossy melodrama, certainly, but one studded with smart lines and, more surprisingly, imbued with humanity... more
Artist who once crucified himself died of a massive heroin and cocaine overdose after celebrating the opening night of his autobiographical play, inquest hears... more
Those expecting razor-sharp epigrams and bonnets in Ealing Studio's new adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray may be disappointed... more
If England, according to Oscar Wilde, is the native land of the hypocrite, then the contortions achieved by former Left-wing supporters of state education in order to justify sending their kids to private schools have to be some of that land's most curious rituals. When I was a child in London my parents schooled me privately to begin with, and then when the inherited dosh ran out sent me to a state school. It was at that point that my mother began to trumpet her great belief in comprehensives. Even aged 13, I couldn't help seeing hypocrisy in this. ... more
The historic Café Royal in Regent Street, where Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley were once regulars, is to be transformed into a 160-bedroom five-star hotel... more
Oscar Wilde's beautifully-honed prison letter is given a convincing emotional resonance thanks to Corin Redgrave's monologue, according to Fiona Mountford.... more
On this occasion, it feels as though The Importance of Being Earnest has primarily been set up as a star vehicle to drive Penelope Keith back into the West End.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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