Oscar Wilde’s “An Ideal Husband” opened for the first time at the Haymarket Theatre, London, on Jan. 3, 1895. After a gap of 20 years, the perennial favorite is being brought back to the New York stage by the Storm Theatre Company for a limited 3-week engagement in February.
Storm co-founder and creative director Peter Dobbins made the pitch for the theatre company’s latest production.
The Storm Theatre Company’s 1997 inaugural production of “Murder in the Cathedral” by T.S. Eliot was staged on the altar of the Church of the Holy Cross on 42nd Street and since then it has produced over 50 plays.
Members of the theatre company and their friends gathered for a fundraising party for their latest, “An Ideal Husband,” last Saturday afternoon at Rosie Dunn’s Victorian Pub, 729 Third Ave., East Midtown.
The Storm Theatre Company’s production of “An Ideal Husband” will be presented at Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre, A.R.T./New York Theatres, 502 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019. It will open on Thursday, Feb. 5, and close on Saturday, Feb. 21. Performances will be Wednesdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday matinées at 2 p.m. Tickets now on sale here.
Actor Ted McGuinness chatted with Frank Barry, a member of the Storm Theatre Company’s board of directors. In the photo above, Brian Belle and Donna Troy Cleary were at Rosie Dunn's to show their support for the new staging of Oscar Wilde’s “An Ideal Husband.”
