The British Library has announced it will posthumously reinstate gay poet and playwright Oscar Wilde’s reader pass after revoking it in 1895 due to his homosexuality.

Now — 130 years on — the British Library has announced it will symbolically reinstate Wilde's Reader Pass, handing it to Wilde's only grandson Merlin Holland in October 2025 at a special event ...

Oscar Wilde’s bed and desk, once rescued from forced sheriff’s auction by friends, go under the hammer Wilde’s famously opulent Chelsea home was found nearly empty by valuers after court ...

LEOMINSTER — City on a Hill Arts will present “Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde” by Moisés Kaufman on Friday, June 6, Saturday, June 7, Friday, June 13, and Saturday, June ...

The poem reveals the mind-numbing conditions and physically exhausting jobs that were relentlessly inflicted on prisoners in Wilde’s day.

Oscar Wilde’s “Salome” Still Shocks More Than 130 Years After Its Premiere Imago Theatre commits to the bit down to every detail of Wilde’s erotic biblical play.

The Broadway debut of a thrilling new The Picture of Dorian Gray underscores the timeless appeal of a 19th-century literary firebrand 125 years after his death.

Oscar Wilde quipped, Seamus Heaney drank, W.B. Yeats shopped On St. Patrick’s Day, a quick look at famous Irish poets visiting Chicago, with a nod to other newcomers whose poetry we have yet to ...

The exact circumstances of the statue’s castration were not recorded in their entirety. As near as anyone could gather, two visitors to Wilde’s grave may have grown offended beyond reason.

For more than a century, Oscar Wilde’s “trivial comedy for serious people” has been tickling the fancy of audiences around the world. From March 13-23, Riverwalk Theatre brings his best ...

Why Oscar Wilde’s Play About a Biblical Temptress Was Banned From the British Stage for Decades “Salome,” a one-act tragedy by the Irish playwright, terrified the Victorian public with its ...

Hollywood stars celebrate Irish influence in film and storytelling at the US-Ireland Alliance's Oscar Wilde Awards, honoring talents like John C. Reilly and Kathleen Kennedy.