In 1926, the historian Beth Zion (Roochel) Lask, author of The Jews in England: A History For Young People read an essay ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago will present Richard Strauss’s explosive masterpiece Salome. This gory operatic thrill ride returns to ...

The two-hour programme opens with Veronica Paeper’s classical 1979 Concerto for Charlie, music Shostakovich’s second piano concerto, the very same Kenneth Macmillan used for his Concerto of 1966. As ...

Initially published as a famously censored novella for Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in June 1890, Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” explores persuasion and corruption, sexual identity, ...

We commemorate the birthday of the renowned gay Irish writer Oscar Wilde with an excerpt from the play he was writing in ...

When Oscar Wilde was jailed for "gross indecency," a charge historically used to criminalize gay sex, his library card was revoked. 130 years later, the British Library has re-issued it. Sponsor ...

: [POST-BROADCAST CLARIFICATION Oct. 22, 2025: Although widely attributed to Oscar Wilde, the quote that kicks off this story — “be yourself; everyone else is already taken” — may not, in fact, have ...

Oscar Wilde's library card was reissued 130 years after his original was revoked for, 'gross indecency,' by the British Library. The date of Wilde's death, 30 November 1900, has been used as the new ...