The Importance of Being Earnest: Co-Production with the Nashville Shakespeare Festival
Saturday, February 20, 2027 · 2:00 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
- Fri Feb 19
- Sat Feb 20 · this one
- Sun Feb 21
- Thu Feb 25
- Fri Feb 26
- Sat Feb 27
- Sun Feb 28
Shape The Day
Before
Proper BagelKettle-boiled bagels on Belmont Blvd with a long list of house cream cheeses. Sandwiches, lox boards, coffee. Daytime only, closing mid-afternoon.
2:00 PM · The Importance of Being Earnest: Co-Production with the Nashville Shakespeare Festival
After
Villager TavernCash register, dart board, cheap beer. The Hillsboro Village closer, open until two-thirty every night of the week.