Gerald Barry’s take on Wilde’s comedy is even wittier and zanier in Jack Furness’s hyperactive staging – complete with a grand piano on stilts, a herd of cows and a kangaroo that meets a grisly end ...

Henry Waddington's Lady Bracknell leads Jack Furness' gleefully surreal staging as Gerald Barry races through Wilde ...

Given the strength of the performances and direction, I suspect that “Hamlet” and “Earnest” will remain in my theatrical ...

But the Oak Park Festival Theatre version, directed by artistic director Peter G. Andersen, takes a speech which has always ...

If you’ve gone too far,” said Jean Cocteau, “there’s only one thing to do: go further.” The team involved in this intermittently amusing but ultimately annoying operatic version of Oscar Wilde’s ...

Oak Park Festival Theatre continues its 51st Anniversary season with Oscar Wilde’s smashing comedy, The Importance of Being ...

This does not take long. London bachelor Algernon Moncrieff (Christopher Clark) greedily downs every last one before their intended recipient, his aunt Lady Bracknell (Shaunyce Omar), can even arrive.

Over the past 25 or so years, Oscar Wilde’s comedy “The Importance of Being Earnest” has been professionally staged in San Diego four or five times. But it hasn’t always been staged right. If the ...

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 ...

Upstart Crows of Santa Fe will present Oscar Wilde's beloved comedy The Importance of Being Earnest beginning July 31 at The ...