The Importance of Being Earnest Returns

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, starring Brian Bedford as Lady Bracknell, begins performances at Broadway's American Airlines Theatre.

The Importance of Being Earnest is a classic comedy of mistaken identity, which ridicules codes of propriety and etiquette. Dashing men-about-town John Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff pursue fair ladies Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew. Matters are complicated by the imaginary characters invented by both men to cover their on-the-sly activities—not to mention the disapproval of Gwendolen’s mother, the formidable Lady Bracknell.