The run dates incomplete
- Opened
- April 22, 1895
- Closed
- —
- Performances
- 40
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Empire Theatre
Of the 147 productions we hold that opened in the 1890s and record a performance count, this is the 74th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.
Other stagings of The Importance of Being Earnest 6 more that season
| 1902 | Empire Theatre Revival | 49 perf. |
| 1921 | Bramhall Playhouse Revival | 44 perf. |
| 1926 | Comedy Theatre Revival · Dudley Digges | 70 perf. |
| 1947 | Royale Theatre Revival | 81 perf. |
| 1977 | Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · Stephen Porter | 85 perf. |
| 2011 | American Airlines Theatre Revival · Brian Bedford | 189 perf. |
Who was in it9 named
Viola Allen
E y Backus
W H Crompton
William Faversham
Agnes Miller
Henry Miller
May Robson
Ida Vernon
W J Whitman
0 of these 9 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 9 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Producer
- Charles Frohman
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for The Importance of Being Earnest at all.
- When it closed.
- No director named.
- No show page for The Importance of Being Earnest. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.