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Review: `Vera Wilde’

Posted by Chad Jones on 20 Sep 08 - 2 Comments

Opened Sept. 19, 2008 at the Ashby Stage

 

Sean Owens (center) is Ocar Wilde in Shotgun Players’ production of Vera Wilde, a musical play by Chris Jeffries. Owens is flanked by (from left) Danielle Levin, Edward Brauer and Tyler Kent. Photos by Jessica Palopoli

 
Shotgun’s revolution in Russian, Irish, musical stripes

Oscar Wilde’s first play, you may be [...]

Word from the California Shakespeare Theater is that artistic director Jonathan Moscone’s production of An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde has become the company’s biggest box-office hit in its 35-year history.
This breaks the previous record held by Moscone’s production of Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw last summer.
Says Cal Shakes’ outgoing managing director Debbie [...]

Opened July 5, Bruns Memorial Amphitheater, Orinda

Julie Eccles is Gertrude Chiltern and Stacy Ross is Laura Chevely in California Shakespeare Theater’s production of An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde. Photos by Kevin Berne

 
Ferocity marries wit in Cal Shakes’ lively `Husband’««««

Nothing ages like happiness, or so Oscar Wilde tells us in An Ideal Husband. But you’ll [...]

 
Elijah Alexander starred as Jack Tanner in California Shakespeare Theater’s Man and Superman last summer. This year he’s starring in Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband. Photo by Kevin Berne

He’s right on time for his interview – early even – and he’s in character.

“Oscar Wilde said that punctuality is a thief of time, and I’m trying [...]