Earnest Exits
by Broadway.com Staff • May 30, 2011
The Broadway revival of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest plays its final performance 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.
