Oscar Wilde

The company that brought you the 5-time Jeff-citation winning Side Show is now turning its vision on one of the wittiest writers in history: Oscar Wilde, with the production Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.

BoHo's own Stephen M. Genovese (Jeff-citation award winner for directing Side Show) brings this show to audiences with sensitivity and insight into Oscar Wilde and the times in which he lived.

In April 1895 Oscar Wilde brought a libel suit against the Marquess of Queensbury, the father of his youthful lover, who had publicly maligned him as a sodomite. In doing so, England's reigning man of letters set in motion a series of events that would culminate in his ruin and imprisonment. For within a year the bewildered Wilde himself was on trial for acts of "gross indecency" and -implicitly- for a vision of art that outraged Victorian propriety.

In this stunning work of theater-a smash hit Off Broadway- Moisés Kaufman turns the trials of Oscar Wilde into a riveting human and intellectual drama. Expertly interweaving courtroom testimony with excerpts from Wilde's writings and the words of his contemporaries, Gross Indecency unveils its subject in all his genius and human frailty, his age in all its complacency and repression. The result is a play that will be read and performed for decades to come.

This captivating and insightful production of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde opens July 27 and runs through August 26th at BoHo Theatre @ Heartland Studio, 7016 N. Glenwood (one block north of the northern Morse red line exit) and plays Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Tickets are only $20 and can be purchased by calling the BoHo line at 773-791-2393, or by going to www.bohotheatre.com.