They say approaching life with copious amounts of positivity is soul-cleansing. It not only puts the spring in your step, but actually improves your physical health. Most of us are bombarded by ...

Novelist Louis Bayard adapts his critically acclaimed novel ’The Wildes’ for UCSB playwright series on July 10.

Cincinnati was curious about Oscar Wilde, known for his witticisms and fancy clothes, when he gave two lectures at the Grand Opera House in 1882.

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. Known at the time as the ...

Satyajit Ray was a multifaceted Indian artist. He was a film director, screenwriter, author, lyricist, magazine editor, ...

In his short life, Oscar Wilde became one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London. His society comedies of the early 1890s, works like 'Lady Windermere's Fan' and 'An Ideal Husband ...

We find out about ‘Oscar’, a ballet based on the life and work of Oscar Wilde. Plus: artist Sophie Matisse tells us about designing chess sets, and writer and translator Bruna Dantas Lobato discusses… ...

His hard work was rewarded with the Oscar for 1977’s best animated short film, 25 years after the NFB’s previous Academy Award for Norman McLaren’s stop-motion documentary short, Neighbours.

Dolly Parton Dolly Parton to receive honorary Oscar for her humanitarian work Dolly Parton will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Academy's Governors Awards ceremony in November.

Parton will receive her Oscar as part of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Academy's 16th Governors Awards event on Sunday, Nov. 16, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood.