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 ...

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 ...

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.

If anybody has managed to attain to the age of reason without having seen or heard or read Earnest, a visit to the local performance would not be a bad idea, simply because Wilde's masterpiece is ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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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.

I suspect him of being untruthful. I fear there can be no possible doubt about the matter. This afternoon during my temporary absence in London on an important question of romance, he obtained ...