Director/choreographer TRACY COLLIER (also a stage and television actress since 1979) has staged new touring musical Vengeance: The Demise of Oscar Wilde, opening this week at the new Esher Theatre in Surrey. The musical, based on the Marquess of Queensberry’s relentless, vindictive pursuit of Oscar Wilde which eventually destroyed both men, has been created by […]
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‘We wanted to tell the story from a new perspective’: Director and writer John Merrigan on new musical Vengeance: The Demise of Oscar Wilde
A new touring musical based on the Marquess of Queensberry’s relentless, vindictive pursuit of Oscar Wilde which eventually destroyed both men is a real family affair with JOHN MERRIGAN writing the book and producing the show and wife Danielle Morgan composing songs and music. Vengeance: The Demise of Oscar Wilde, the result of this collaboration, […]
Rock musical Dorian back online for Halloween
As a Halloween treat for theatre fans Dorian A Rock Musical, the new stage version of Oscar Wilde’s haunting novel The Picture of Dorian Gray will be streamed on demand via stream.theatre from 31 October until 28 November 2021. Filmed at a secret location in London’s Mayfair, Ruby in the Dust Theatre’s contemporary take on […]
New Dorian Gray musical to launch on stream.theatre
Keith Ramsay will take on the title role in Dorian A Rock Musical, a new stage version of Oscar Wilde’s haunting novel The Picture of Dorian Gray which will be launched on stream.theatre next month. Recently seen in Preludes at the Southwark Playhouse, Ramsay (Amour, Charing Cross Theatre, Lost in Yonkers, Watford Palace) stars alongside […]
The Importance – Original Studio Cast Recording
THE IMPORTANCE – Original Studio Cast Recording (Stage Door Records – STAGE 9044) The only musical adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest to be staged in London’s West was The Importance with music, lyrics and book adaptation by Sean O’Mahony. This was staged originally at the Ambassadors Theatre in 1984 with a […]
Dorian Gray – King’s Head Theatre
Dorian Gray continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 12 April. Star rating: 3 stars ★ ★ ★ “I have the simplest tastes,” said Oscar Wilde famously. “I am always satisfied with the best.” If this was the case, then Mr Wilde would perhaps be left wanting after experiencing Another Soup’s musical exploration of his only novel. […]
De Profundis – Leicester Square Theatre Lounge
De Profundis continues at the Leicester Square Lounge, London until 8 June. The New Musical Project is an initiative launched by the Leicester Square Theatre to seek out and promote new up and coming writers and composers. The inaugural year saw six new musicals given workshop presentations in front of industry experts and the winner, De Profundis […]
Dorian Gray – Riverside Studios
Dorian Gray continues at the Riverside Studios, London until 10 May. Innocence and corruption collide in Ruby in the Dust’s dark and seedy production of Oscar Wilde’s late Victorian novel, Dorian Gray. The popular piece, which continues to be adapted for the stage and screen, focuses on the story of the naïve Dorian Gray who sacrifices […]
Oscar Wilde inspired musical wins New Musical Project
De Profundis, a new musical by Paul Dale Vickers, based on the letter playwright Oscar Wilde wrote to his young lover, Bosie, from his prison cell in Reading jail in 1897, has won Leicester Square Theatre’s The New Musical Project, and will premiere in a six-week season in The Lounge at the venue from May […]
Ernest – Etcetera Theatre
Ernest continues until 8 December at the Etcetera Theatre, London. Not for the first time, Oscar Wilde’s ‘Trivial Comedy for Serious People’ is brought to life on the stage in the form of a musical, this fun, frothy version courtesy of the All in One Theatre Company. Billing itself as the country’s premier (and still […]
