What fun it is to see a “serious” theatre take Oscar Wilde’s “exquisitely trivial” 1895 comedy, as he himself called The Importance of Being Earnest, and shake it up a little bit.

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

That is until he gets to London where Jack lets loose and becomes Earnest! The unruly brother that tears around the city. However, Jack's double life will inevitably become VERY complicated as his ...

By Matt Wolf Reviewing from London 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 ...

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 ...

Ncuti Gatwa is back on stage in a new production of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” at London’s National Theatre, and first-look images have been released ahead of the play ...

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.

SEQUIM — The production of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” will open with shows at 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and matinees at 2 p.m. Sundays through Sept. 29. The comedy will be on ...