“The Importance of Being Earnest,” Oscar Wilde’s popular farce that skewers Victorian manners, premiered in 1895 — just months before the Irish playwright was famously tried, convicted and imprisoned ...

Nicosia For Art, in collaboration with National Theatre Live, presents the film adaptation of the theatrical production The ...

Don’t miss 2025 Season opener for The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (STNJ). Oscar Wilde’s beloved comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest, impeccably directed by the theatre’s Artistic Director ...

Oscar Wilde’s frothy play, The Importance of Being Earnest, is a witty send-up of the Gilded Age in the British 1890s. During the same years that Wilde’s play was being staged, here in South Bend, ...

If he hadn't been cremated, George Bernard Shaw would surely be rolling over in his grave. The Irish writer and critic could not stand "The Importance of Being Earnest," which premiered at London's St ...

Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People” is “one of the three most perfect plays ever written,” according to Mario Cabrera, who is directing the Victorian ...

Oscar Wilde once said about his play “The Importance of Being Earnest” that it is “exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy…” This lighthearted production delivers on that promise with a clever ...

Over the past 25 or so years, Oscar Wilde’s comedy “The Importance of Being Earnest” has been professionally staged in San Diego four or five times. But it hasn’t always been staged right. If the ...

This does not take long. London bachelor Algernon Moncrieff (Christopher Clark) greedily downs every last one before their intended recipient, his aunt Lady Bracknell (Shaunyce Omar), can even arrive.

Poet and playwright Oscar Wilde wields words like a sharp stick in his 1895 comedy “The Importance of Being Earnest.” His characters poke and jab at one another incessantly, as Wilde likewise needles ...

ICTC remounting of Oscar Wilde’s celebrated comedy, EARNEST (A Trivial Comedy for Serious People) plays weekends through June 25 th at the Andrews Theatre downtown. Kristen Tripp Kelley directs a cast ...