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The classic American musical LA CAGE AUX FOLLES returned to the Broadway stage in 2010 in high fashion, claiming three Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical, i...

'Sir DONALD SINDEN CBE reads the full version of THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL by OSCAR WILDE.

Due to the nature of Wilde’s own offence, it was thought expedient at the time to attribute his published works to “The Author of Lady Windermere’s Fan”. Indeed even Lady Windermere’s Fan was “by the Author of Lady Windermere’s Fan”! So when his poem was published by Leonard Smithers in 1898, the title page merely stated “By C.3.3.” (C was the cell block, 3 the landing and 3 the cell). It was not commonly known, until the seventh printing in June 1899, that C.3.3. was actually Oscar Wilde.

Oscar Wilde died, an outcast, in Paris at the Hotel d’Alsace on Friday 30th November 1900. He is buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery and his tombstone, sculpted by Jacob Epstein with lettering designed and cut by Eric Gill, reads:

And alien tears will fill for him

Pity’s long broken urn

For his mourners will be outcast men

And outcasts always mourn.

A verse from THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL'

"Of the many artistic works that have attempted to make sense of September 11, 2001, none has captured the New York perspective of the quietly hellish aftermath of the de...

An emotional rollercoaster of a show with an onstage cast of 50 actors, singers and dancers, a backstage crew of 25, West End standard sets and scenery, over 150 costumes...