“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 ...

A Trivial Comedy for Serious People” is “one of the three most perfect plays ever written,” according to Mario Cabrera, who ...

Irish author Oscar Wilde has written some of the most enduring theater and novels of all time, including this, the fourth of his four drawing-room plays (capping off “Lady Windermere’s Fan,” “A Woman ...

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 ...

SCOTTS VALLEY — F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous quote “There are no second acts in American lives” does not apply to the world ...

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 ...

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’s opening ...

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, ...

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 ...

The play’s provided synopsis is as follows: “While assuming the role of a dutiful guardian in the country, Jack (Skinner) lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy (Gatwa) ...