Photo Flash: M-34's THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Begin. 8/17

M-34 proudly presents the World Premiere of The Importance of Being Ernest Hemingway, co-created by James Rutherford and Elliot B. Quick, and directed by James Rutherford. The Importance of Being Ernest Hemingway runs from August 17 to September 1, 2013 in a limited engagement at the Access Theater, located at 380 Broadway between Walker Street and White Street in New York City. BroadwayWorld brings you first look at the show's production photos below!

Performances are Thursdays - Sundays at 8pm with an additional performance on Tuesday, August 20 at 8pm. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased online at http://www.M-34.org.

Literature's most dazzling wit faces down its most red-blooded stoic in The Importance of Being Ernest Hemingway, a World Premiere by M-34. Set in 1926 Paris with rugged Hemingway men in the roles of Jack and Algy, this mash-up of texts from Oscar Wilde and Ernest Hemingway outs the gay romance in Wilde's best-loved work and collides it with Hemingway's impossible machismo, exposing both artists' desperate search for an Ideal Masculinity. Directed and adapted by James Rutherford in collaboration with Elliot B. Quick, The Importance of Being Ernest Hemingway is a trivial comedy about pain, lies, violence and vengeance.

The cast includes Leighton Bryan (Broadway: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), Ross Cowan, Charlotte Graham (The Hot Flashes), Charise Greene (Notebook of Trigorin at The Flea), Timothy Hassler, Ned Riesley, Alexander Salamat, Wheaton Simis and Anne Troup (Ivanov with Classic Stage Company).

Elliot B. Quick

Ross Cowan, Timothy Hassler

Charlotte Graham, Ross Cowan, Timothy Hassler, Anne Troup

Timothy Hassler, Anne Troup, Charlotte Graham,Ross Cowan

Charlotte Graham, Timothy Hassler, Ross Cowan, Anne Troup

Timothy Hassler, Ross Cowan

Ross Cowan, Timothy Hassler

Anne Troup, Charlotte Graham