The Importance of Being Earnest is a farcical comedy set in late Victorian era London, in which the leading characters maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations. Two ...
Hartford Courant: Theater review: ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ gets a playful production at Westport Playhouse
For most of the 20th century, “The Importance of Being Earnest” was so incredibly popular that it was basically what people thought of when they thought of a play. When this loony comedy of manners ...
Theater review: ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ gets a playful production at Westport Playhouse
The Arts Desk: The Importance of Being Earnest, Noël Coward Theatre review - dazzling and delightful queer fest
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 ...
The Importance of Being Earnest, Noël Coward Theatre review - dazzling and delightful queer fest
A delightful romp of mistaken identities, witty banter, and larger-than-life characters! While Gwendolyn and Cecily both fall in love with a man named Ernest, Jack and Algernon learn the importance of ...
The Daily Californian: ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ at Aurora Theatre Company breathes new life into Oscar Wilde’s witticisms
When “The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People” first premiered in 1895, critic William Archer said in The World: “(The play) imitates nothing, represents nothing, is ...
‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ at Aurora Theatre Company breathes new life into Oscar Wilde’s witticisms
The New York Times: Review: This ‘Importance of Being Earnest’ Is a Fabulous Romp