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, ...
Chicago Tribune: Review: ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ adaptation explores the social circles of wealthy Midwestern gays
“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 ...
Review: ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ adaptation explores the social circles of wealthy Midwestern gays
Kamilah Bush's new adaptation of Oscar Wilde's beloved comedy THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST transplants the action to 1919, creating a world that mirrors contemporary D.C.'s obsession with wealth, ...
Yahoo: Theater review: ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ gets a playful production at Westport Playhouse
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For most of the 20th century, “The Importance of Being Earnest” was so incredibly popular that it was basically what people ...
Theater review: ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ gets a playful production at Westport Playhouse
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde is a farcical comedy concerning manners in which a pair of flamboyant, wealthy men, Jack and Algernon, invent false identities to escape social ...
Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of being Earnest is a farcical comedy of manners built on deliberate absurdity. Two young men, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, maintain elaborate lies to escape ...