'Mickle Street' a dull effort to depict Wilde and Whitman

In 1882, a young Oscar Wilde took a one-day break from his lecture tour of North America to visit the Camden home of Walt Whitman. Thematically, Michael Whistler's Mickle Street, now at the Walnut Theatre's Independence Studio on 3, depicts this event as a gay apologia and examination of the difficulties living as a homosexual in 1880s England and America (which Wilde would find out for himself a few decades later).

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