“The Importance of Being Earnest” plays at the National Theatre’s Lyttelton theater from Nov. 20 through Jan. 25, 2025.

“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 ...

The Importance of Being Earnest is a tale of mistaken identities, rapid-fire wit, and cucumber sandwiches. There may not be a funnier, more socially insightful play chock-full of eccentric ...

Breaking from their tradition of producing Shakespeare, the Ninjas of Drama Go Wilde with their 1960's London Mod take on the ever-popular Oscar Wilde comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest ...

Over the years, especially Stateside, Oscar Wilde’s fin de siecle satire “The Importance of Being Earnest” has been turned into more of a hootenanny, replete with Lady Bracknell played in ...

Count me among the many who consider Wilde's 1895 manners masterpiece to be the funniest play ever penned in the English language. Unfortunately, I've seen too many productions that seemed so ...

Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" has been staged approximately 6.2 bazillion times -- give or take a bazillion -- since the Irish bon vivant's jewel first appeared on the boards in ...

A first edition of Oscar Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest, dedicated by the writer to his first gay lover, is going under the hammer. The book, expected to fetch 120,000 US dollars (£ ...

Oscar Wilde's classic play, 'The Importance of Being Earnest,' comes to select. U.S. movie theaters for a special one-night event tonight, November 3, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. local time, presented by ...

Oscar Wilde's classic play, 'The Importance of Being Earnest,' comes to select. U.S. movie theaters for a special one-night event on Tuesday, November 3, 2015 ...