Archive photographs show Ellesmere Amateur Dramatic Society staging Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest in 1954.

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 ...

A new production in London, starring Ncuti Gatwa, releases Oscar Wilde’s 1895 comedy from period convention and brings it stunningly into the 21st century. By Matt Wolf Reviewing from London Purists ...

Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People” is “one of the three most perfect plays ever written,” according to Mario Cabrera, who is directing the Victorian ...

Theater companies are fond of selecting Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" because it reads so well. It's overflowing with clever twists of dialogue and wicked epigrams that skewer many ...

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, ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Kentucky Shakespeare’s Associate Artistic Director Amy Attaway joins Dawne Gee to preview their next performance: “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde.

The Kirbyville High School drama program finished out the school year with its production of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.

The National Theatre’s sold-out production of The Importance of Being Earnest transfers to the Noël Coward Theatre this Autumn, in a co-production with Sonia Friedman Productions. Being sensible can ...