Extra History. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde - So You Haven't Read. Posted: June 26, 2025 | Last updated: June 26, 2025. Jack Worthing, an upstanding socialite, victorian gentleman ...

“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 ...

City Center Theatre's rendition of The Importance of Being Earnest successfully brings Victorian England to life through its set design, costumes, and charming performances. The play's clever ...

Shakespeare Dallas will present The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Jenni Stewart, as part of the 53rd Shakespeare in the Park season June 13-July 18, 2025. This witty romantic comedy by ...

It shouldn’t have come as a surprise that New Generation Theatrical would tackle Oscar Wilde’s 1895’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” It has that silly and arch veneer found in some ...

If Oscar Wilde could be here today, he would be thrilled with Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s production of “The Importance of Being Earnest.” This is the play that ended Wilde’s writing career ...

Actors (from left) Rylan Morsbach and Peter Evangelista are shown in a scene from “The Importance of Being Earnest,” which runs Jan. 4 through Feb. 11 at West Springfield’s Majestic Theater.

It is very appropriate for Worthing because the main character is called "Worthing" for reasons which become apparent and indeed the play was written by Oscar Wilde in Worthing. It is remarkable ...

Purists may reach for their smelling salts at the National Theater’s wild revival of “The Importance of Being Earnest,” the Oscar Wilde comedy concerned with self-identity, veiled sexuality ...

Today it’s impossible not to realise what a lacerating attack The Importance of Being Earnest is on conventional marriage. Algernon’s aunt, Lady Bracknell, disapproves of long engagements because ...

Entertainment ‘Wilde, witty and wonderfully dressed’ - Inside the Lyric’s lavish take on The Importance of Being Earnest Sophie Clarke meets the all female costume dream team reinventing ...

The National Theatre production of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest,” starring Ncuti Gatwa, has unveiled a trailer ahead of its cinema release on Feb. 20.. The trailer begins ...