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 ...

London's National Theatre's dramatically reimagined revival of Oscar Wilde 's The Importance of Being Earnest, which began performances November 20, 2024, concludes its limited engagement January 25.

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.

And while I don’t want to be a party-pooper, a slight sense of exhaustion set in watching his concertedly exuberant, subtext-declaring Earnest ... s double-life (“being Ernest in town and ...

Mr. Bedford's production is not entirely effortless - Wilde's rococo style can be daunting even to experienced classicists - but it is more buoyant and consistently funny than any I've seen.

There is no objection, I admit, to an aunt being a small aunt ... You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.

Kentucky Shakespeare presents our first production on the Actors Theatre of Louisville stage this January, with a perfect post-holiday pick-me-up! Oscar Wilde’s delightful comedy, subtitled A ...

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.

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Gwendolyn has arrived in the country to meet up with Ernest. Upon arrival, she meets Cecily, Jack Worthing's ward. Jack Worthing comes to London to escape county life under the name of Ernest ...