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The Importance of Being Earnest

Broadcasting live from Broadway at Lincoln Theater on June 2nd at 7:30 PM!  Tickets are available at our box office and the Maine Coast Book Shop in Damariscotta:
General Admission: $15
Students: $10
Lincoln Theater Members: $13

The Roundabout Theatre Company, L.A. Theatre Works and BY Experience present Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest captured LIVE in high-definition at the American Airlines Theater on Broadway, for limited screenings at movie theaters and performing arts centers around the world from June 2nd, 2011.  The Importance of Being Earnest is a comedic masterpiece about class, courtship and good old-fashioned name dropping.  Tony Award winner Brian Bedford directs and stars as Lady Bracknell in this trivial comedy for serious people.  This landmark Roundabout Theatre Company production of The Importance of Being Earnest delights audiences and critics alike!

The Importance of Being Earnest is a glorious 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.  The Importance of Being Earnest cast also features Dana Ivey as "Miss Prism", Paxton Whitehead as "Rev. Canon Chasuble", Santino Fontana as "Algernon Moncrieff", David Furr as "John Worthing", Tim MacDonald as "Merriman", Paul O'Brien as "Lane", Charlotte Parry as "Cecily Cardew" and Sara Topham as "Gwendolen Fairfax". 
"The great actor Brian Bedford is brilliant in this funny and effervescent production.  It's one of the great performances of the season." - Charles Isherwood, The New York Times


"Profoundly funny and deeply moving.  Brian Bedford is giving the performance of a lifetime." -Adam Green, Vogue

 

"The finest performance of The Importance of Being Earnest that I have ever seen." -Daily Telegraph (UK)
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Read an interview with the production's director/actor Brian Bedford, Todd Haimes (Artistic Director, Roundabout Theater Co.), Susan Loewenberg (of L.A. Theater Works) & Julie and Richard Borchard-Young (of By Experience)
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Read an interview with the production's director and actor, Brian Bedford here.