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Tommy Mesa will release his new album '17(67)' on February 13, 2026, showcasing a blend of classical and contemporary music performed on a historic 1767 Nicolò Gagliano cello.

Marking its 31st year, LA Art Show will return to the LA Convention Center. Led by director and producer Kassandra Voyagis, the fair will feature more than 90 exhibitors.

Open Space Arts will extend the run of its Chicago Premiere of DORIAN, by by one week, adding three performances. Open Space Arts' DORIAN is directed by 20-year veteran Chicago director, actor, and playwright Aaron Holland.

While the large majority of plays that make it to Broadway were written in English, a small fraction of plays were originally penned in a different language and translated. 

Dances Patrelle will present The Yorkville Nutcracker at the Kaye Playhouse. There will be a battle with life-sized mice, a midnight skate on the ponds of Central Park, and more.

The USC Department of Theatre and Dance will present the classic social satire The Importance of Being Earnest Nov. 7-16 at Longstreet Theatre. Learn more about the production here!

There probably isn’t a theatergoer who hasn’t already seen Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Ernest.

After a sold-out, kick-off concert on Sept. 28, The Scottsdale Philharmonic has announced the program for its next concert on Sunday, Nov. 16. Learn more here!

What did our critic think of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST at Austin Playhouse?

The Colburn School expands its acclaimed Recovered Voices program into Music Restored: The Ziering-Conlon Center for Exiled and Suppressed Composers, led by James Conlon.

World Stage Theatre Company will open their eighth season with The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. Performances are at 8pm on Fridays and Saturdays and 3pm on Saturdays and Sundays.

Porgy and Bess is a famous 'folk opera' created by George Gershwin, with a libretto by DuBose Heyward and lyrics by DuBose and Ira Gershwin. The work chronicles the life of a Black community on Catfish Row in Charleston and is known for its fusion of operatic elements with American folk music, jazz, and blues. The story focuses on the love between Porgy, a disabled beggar, and Bess, a woman seeking a better life.

El 27 de agosto a las 19 horas, el Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (MACG), del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL), recibirá al público con una sesión de performance y cine expandido. La actividad tiene como objetivo crear una experiencia inmersiva y explorar el concepto de “imagen operativa”.

Dances Patrelle will hold auditions for young dancers for its 29th annual production of The Yorkville Nutcracker on Saturday, September 20 and Sunday, September 21, 2025 at Ballet Academy East (1651 Third Avenue, Third Floor, NYC).

Directed by Jason Sirois, The Importance of Being Earnest stars Damien Hartzell as Jack, Margaret Stall as Gwendolen, Jasper Hammer as Algernon, Samara Cain-Burrow as Cecily, Jennifer Ann White as Miss Prism, Jarrod Kopp as Rev. Chasuble, Lori Bryant as Lady Bracknell, and Nicholas Edward Bushta as Lane/Merriman.

Film Forum will present the US premiere of AN OFFICER AND A SPY, directed by Roman Polanski, on Friday, August 8. The movie had its world premiere at the 2019 Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize.

Fiennes captures the voice and gait of actor-manager Sir Henry Irving and Miranda Raison conveys the intuitive nature of actress Ellen Terry in a superb production by director Jeremy Herrin in Fiennes' new season at Theatre Royal Bath.

Spoleto Festival USA's bipolar weekend of WHITE BOX and POLAR BEAR & PENGUIN was an admirable pairing for young and old -but not as grippingly theatrical as the world premiere staging of Benjamin Britten's opera, THE TURN OF THE SCREW, retelling the ghostly Henry James novella under the direction of Rodula Gaitanou

Don’t miss 2025 Season opener for The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (STNJ). Oscar Wilde’s beloved comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest, impeccably directed by the theatre’s Artistic Director Brian Crowe, is onstage through June 1.

The Maison symphonique de Montréal will resonate with the grand finale of the 10th season of the Orchestre Philharmonique et Chœur des Mélomanes (OPCM) on May 24 at 7:30 PM.

Music Director Leon Botstein conducts the American Symphony Orchestra (ASO) in a rare performance of Strauss' first opera, Guntram, at Carnegie Hall on Friday, June 6 at 8 pm. 

The Importance of Being Earnest was Oscar Wilde’s last and most famous play, a brilliant farce that satirizes Victorian society. It premiered on February 14, 1895, at the St. James Theatre in London.

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), in partnership with Odyssey Opera, will present the New England premiere of Frederick Douglass at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall on Friday, June 20, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. 

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), in partnership with Odyssey Opera, will present the New England premiere of Frederick Douglass at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall on Friday, June 20, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. 

The internationally known ensemble Signum Quartet will return to Princeton to perform on the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO)'s new chamber music series at Trinity Church.