The Importance of Being Earnest, written in the 1890s by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, is not a chestnut, at least not when it’s produced properly. Despite its age – and despite how frequently the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For most of the 20th century, “The Importance of Being Earnest” was so incredibly popular that it was basically what people ...

Both a delightfully lighthearted confection and a deliciously pointed send-up of performative identity, The Importance of ...

Written by Oscar Wilde to poke fun at Victorian society and manners, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST is the rare comedic play that will elicit laughter from simply reading it let alone watching it.

Gateway High School theater will perform “The Importance of Being Earnest” at the Robert A. Read Performing Arts Center this month. The winter play returns after a three year hiatus. “I had some ...

Dress sense: Kitty Hawthorne, Stephen Fry and Jessica Whitehurst in ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’. The play opens in the fashionable London flat of Algernon Moncrieff (Alexander), as he discusses ...