Original: Emerson got his big break in 1997 when he starred as Oscar Wilde in Moises Kaufman 's critically-acclaimed off-Broadway play , Gross Indecency : The Trials of Oscar Wilde , and then followed up with several other notable stage performances .
Simplified: He starred as Oscar Wilde in Moises Kaufman 's play , Gross Indecency : The Trials of Oscar Wilde , and then was in many other plays .