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The Importance of Being Earnest at Austin Playhouse

Dates: 9/19/2025 - 10/19/2025

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Austin Playhouse

Austin Playhouse

405 West 22nd St.
Austin,TX 78705

Phone: 512-476-0084

Tickets: Tickets starting at $38; Student Pricing and Pay-What-You-Want prices available


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Fake names, real feelings, and plenty of tea to spill. Jack and Algernon invent alter egos to escape their duties, but get tangled in a mess including mistaken identities, romantic entanglements, and two extremely judgmental butlers. Wilde’s razor-sharp wit skewers social conventions as Victorian etiquette turns into pure comedic chaos.

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Ages: Age recommendation: 12 and up



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Austin Playhouse is at 405 West 22nd St., Austin, TX.

Austin Playhouse is a professional regional theatre, founded in August of 2000. Over fifty of Austin's leading theatre artists, administrators, and volunteers who had worked with Producing Artistic Director Don Toner to build Austin’s State Theatre Company into one of the city’s leading arts organizations, joined him in creating this new professional theatre for Austin. On November 27, 2000 Austin Playhouse was granted 501(c)(3) status by the Internal Revenue Service.

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