The Importance of Being Earnest: Co-Production with the Nashville Shakespeare Festival
Thursday, February 18, 2027 · 7:30 PM · Massey Performing Arts Center, Belmont / Hillsboro
The Read
Two men invent alternate identities because telling the truth would interfere with lunch and marriage. Oscar Wilde keeps tightening the mechanism until almost every character is lying about something trivial with absolute seriousness. The jokes remain vicious because the manners remain immaculate. Nashville Shakespeare Festival takes it on in a ten-performance co-production at Massey. Give good actors Wilde's sentences and stay out of their way.
The Venue
Massey Performing Arts Center
1900 Belmont Blvd
Belmont's performing arts complex, running near-daily recitals and commercial, jazz, and rock ensembles that are mostly free.
The production
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Also playing
The same booking at Massey Performing Arts Center, 8 dates in all.
- Thu Feb 18 · this one
- Fri Feb 19
- Sat Feb 20
- Sun Feb 21
- Thu Feb 25
- Fri Feb 26
- Sat Feb 27
- Sun Feb 28
Shape The Night
Before
The Chloe NashvilleA boutique hotel in two restored 1920s Craftsman cottages that used to house Asylum Records and Spirit Music. LeBlanc+Smith, the Barrel Proof people, run the bar. Gulf Coast cooking from Matt Regan and a Tennessee whiskey program from Jason Sorbet. The least hotel-feeling hotel bar in Nashville.
7:30 PM · The Importance of Being Earnest: Co-Production with the Nashville Shakespeare Festival
After
Bungalow 10Curtained booths on Belcourt Ave, each with its own screen and speakers, and a globally mixed menu. DJs play 9 to 1 on Friday and Saturday. Closed Mondays.