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...Director Kip Williams, of Sydney Theatre Company, has the super-smart idea of packaging Wilde’s Gothic classic for our own age — a world obsessed with image where you can curate your life, your likes and...
...The family moved here in 1855, when the author of works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and Lady Windermere’s Fan was an infant....
...Williams cuts something of a Dorian Gray figure: he has just turned 50 but looks at least 15 years younger. In person, he is quiet, reserved, speaks precisely, exudes calm....
...Meanwhile, Shiv Roy, now reinstated in real life as Sarah Snook, flaunts her new pulling-power in a version by Kip William of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, a one-woman show at London’s 900-seat...
...The 120 artists represented include Dorothea Lange, William Klein and other giants of the medium....
...Hurricane Dorian, which levelled parts of the Bahamas in 2019, suddenly intensified into a Category 5 storm over two days after initially being forecast to be a tropical storm....
...The scholar in question, Dorian Abbot, a University of Chicago geophysicist, was disinvited from giving a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after protesters said his criticisms of DEI...
...New York Fed president John Williams, Boston Fed president Eric Rosengren and St Louis Fed president James Bullard are scheduled to give remarks on the economy and inflation....
...President Donald Trump cancelled his visit to Poland due to the approach of Dorian, which is now only expected to graze Florida, but is forecast to shift eastward around the middle of the week, putting the...
...I also love Charlottenhof Palace, the summer residence of Crown Prince Frederick William built in 1826 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel....
...For William Wordsworth, poetry was “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”....
...Newsweek made one flawed effort to unmask bitcoin’s creator, identifying a Californian called Dorian Nakomoto, who promptly denied it and threatened to sue....
...The Dining Room’s velvet furnishings parallel the heavy burgundy dress worn by John William Waterhouse’s medieval enchantress in “The Crystal Ball”....
...But, as William Fallon, a former head of US Pacific Command, has noted, the Chinese zone raises the potential for an accidental conflict....
...But, in Annabelle Comyn’s production, Lorcan Cranitch is excellent as the meticulous editor William Shawn and Catherine Walker suggests vulnerability and loneliness behind Brennan’s brittle exterior: another...
...Dorian in Scrubs, or the less-than-princely Michael in the movie The Last Kiss, who cheats on his pregnant girlfriend....
...They don’t age, like Dorian Gray’s portrait. They remain fresh and ever-more valuable. They retain their lustre. It is the rest of us that get old....
...William Morris sold delicately crafted wallpaper, including the “Pomegranate” motif on show here; a variation was used for the V&A’s Green Dining Room....
...Similarly neutered was William Butler Yeats, who thereupon began chasing younger women and churning out poems, including many of his best....
...The sale has become an annual 600-lot affair intended to provide a one-stop-shop from which the man-about-town can purchase everything he needs to create an ambience in which Sherlock Holmes, Dorian Gray...
...The festival will also feature a world premiere of a fully staged production of Smetana’s The Two Widows by Scottish Opera and the world premiere of Matthew Bourne’s ballet Dorian Gray, with music by Terry...
...Oscar Wilde’s view of smoking, expressed in The Picture of Dorian Gray, is a masterpiece of intellectual elegance and rigour. “A cigarette”, he wrote, “is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure....
...So was widespread escapism, a reaction to mid-Victorian earnestness, which made Oscar Wilde’s fantasy of eternal youth, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a succès de scandale....
...ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare, adapted by Richard Appignanesi, illustrated by Sonia Leong SelfMadeHero ₤6.99, 200 pages FT bookshopprice: ₤5.59 HAMLET by William Shakespeare, adapted by Richard...
...Gladstone and Women by Anne Isba Hambledon Continuum $29.95, 268 pages The Politics of Pleasure: A Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli by William Kuhn Free Press ₤20, 352 pages William Ewart Gladstone’s greatness...
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