"The Importance of Being Earnest: Live in HD" will screen across the U.S. and internationally June 2 and continue through June 28. Digitally equipped movie theatres and performing arts centers in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Mexico and throughout Europe have signed on to host special screenings.
In addition to the complete play, the screening will also include a backstage tour hosted by Tony winner David Hyde Pierce. Alfred Molina and Oscar Wilde expert Michael Hackett will also discuss the writer and the man in an intermission special.
"The Importance of Being Earnest: Live in HD" was captured live in high-definition from Roundabout’s American Airlines Theatre and features the original cast of this new Broadway production, including Dana Ivey as Miss Prism, Paxton Whitehead as Rev. Canon Chasuble, Santino Fontana as Algernon Moncrieff, David Furr as John Worthing, Tim MacDonald as Merriman, Paul O’Brien as Lane, Charlotte Parry as Cecily Cardew, Sara Topham as Gwendolen Fairfax and Amanda Leigh Cobb as Servant.
Venue and date information for U.S. screenings follow:
ARIZONA The Loft Theater (Tuscon, AZ) – June 5
Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix, AZ) – June 12
CALIFORNIA
Downtown Independent (Los Angeles, CA) – June 9
The Gaslamp (San Diego, CA) – June 22, 23
James Bridges Theater at UCLA (Los Angeles, CA) – June 2, 5
La Mirada Theatre (La Mirada, CA) – June 26
Lark Theater (Larkspur, CA) – June 6
Mann Theatre (Hollywood, CA) – June 2, 7
Rialto Cinema Cerrito (El Cerrito, CA) – June 2, 13
Rialto Cinemas Elmwood (Berkeley, CA) – June 2, 7
Rialto Cinemas Sixth Street Playhouse (Santa Rosa, CA) – June 7, 14
Sierra Cinemas (Grass Valley, CA) – June 8
Sundance Kabuki (San Francisco, CA) – June 12, 13
COLORADO
Colorado Mountain College (Breckenridge, CO) – June
CONNECTICUT
Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center (Old Saybrook, CT) – June
Quick Center for the Arts (Fairfield, CT) – June 4, 10
FLORIDA
Cinemaworld Majestic (Vero Beach, FL) – June 2, 16
GEORGIA
Douglass Theatre (Macon, GA) – June 5, 19
HAWAII
Kahala 8 Theater (Honolulu, HI) – June 16, 19
ILLINOIS
McKendree University (Lebanon, IL) – June 2
Music Box Theater (Chicago, IL) – June 9, 12
INDIANA
Notre Dame Browning Cinema (Notre Dame, IN) – June 28
MAINE
The Grand Auditorium (Ellsworth, ME) – June TBC
Leura Hill Eastman PAC, Fryeburg Academy (Fryeburg, ME) – June 2
The Lincoln Theater (Damariscotta, ME) – June 2
The Strand (Rockland, ME) – June 2, 5, 7
MARYLAND
Avalon Theatre (Easton, MD) – June
MASSACHUSETTS
Amherst Cinema (Amherst, MA) – June 2, 18, 21, 26
Cape Cinema (Dennis, MA) – June 2
Coolidge Corner (Boston, MA) – June 2
Julie Harris Stage (Wellfleet, MA) – June 4, 11, 18, 2
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center (Great Barrington, MA) – June
Shalin Liu Performance Center (Rockport, MA) – June 5
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA) – June 18
MICHIGAN
Michigan Theater (Ann Arbor, MI) – June 2
MINNESOTA
Guthrie Theatre (Minneapolis, MN) – June
MISSOURI
Tivoli Cinemas (Kansas City, MO) – June 13, 19
NEBRASKA
Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center (Lincoln, NE) – June 9, 12
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth (Hanover, NH) – June 24, 25
The Music Hall (Portsmouth, NH) – June 2
NEW JERSEY
Pollak Theatre at Monmouth University (West Long Branch, NJ) – June 4
NEW MEXICO
The Lensic (Santa Fe, NM) – June 2
Taos Community Auditorium (Taos, NM) – June 8, 17
NEW YORK
Cinema Arts Center (Huntington, NY) – June 2
Cinema 123 (New York, NY) – June 2, 5
Jacob Burns Film Center (Pleasantville, NY) – June 22
John Drew Theater at Guild Hall (East Hampton, NY) – June 2
Kew Gardens Cinemas (Queens, NY) – June 2 two showings
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (New York, NY) – June 11
Spectrum 8 Theatres (Albany, NY) – June 2, 5, 12, 1
Staller Center, SUNY Stony Brook (Stony Brook, NY) – June 2
Time & Space Limited (Hudson, NY) – June 2, 4, 11, 12
NORTH CAROLINA
Hanesbrands Theatre (Winston-Salem, NC) – June TBC
Lumina Theater at UNCW (Wilmington, NC) – June 2
Sunrise Theater (Southern Pines, NC) – June 2 two showings
OHIO
Cedar Lee Theatre (Cleveland Height, OH) – June 22, 26
OKLAHOMA
Circle Cinema (Tulsa, OK) – June 9
OREGON
Newport Performing Arts Center (Newport, OR) – June 24
Third Rail Rep at the World Trade Center Theater (Portland, OR) – June 2, 12
PENNSYLVANIA
Allentown Symphony Hall (Allentown, PA) – June 2, 10
Ambler Theater (Ambler, PA) – June 2, 5, 12
Bryn Mawr Film Institute (Bryn Mawr, PA) – June 2,
County Theater (Doylestown, PA) – June 2, 5
Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center at Mercyhurst College (Erie, PA) – June 2
Oaks Theater (Oakmont, PA) – June 2, 5
RHODE ISLAND
Jane Pickens Theater, Event Center (Newport, RI) – June
TENNESSEE
Paradiso Cinema (Memphis, TN) – June 12,
TEXAS
Angelika Film Center (Dallas, TX) – June 8, 9
Angelika Film Center (Plano, TX) – June 12, 14
VERMONT
Catamount Arts (St. Johnsbury, VT) - June 2, 4
Town Hall Theater/Opera Company (Middlebury, VT) – June
VIRGINIA
The Paramount Theater (Charlottesville, VA) – June 4 two showings
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Shakespeare Theatre Company, Sidney Harman Hall (Washington, DC) – June 2
WASHINGTON
The Lincoln Theater (Mount Vernon, WA) – June 2, 12
Rose Theatre (Port Townsend, WA) – June 4, 11, 12, 18
SIFF Cinema (Seattle, WA) – June 2, 5, 12
WISCONSIN
Sundance Cinemas (Madison, WI) – June 25, 27
A full list of participating cinemas, exhibition dates and ticket prices is available at www.EarnestHD.com.
"The Importance of Being Earnest: Live in HD" was filmed and is being distributed to movie theatres and performing arts centers globally by New York-based BY Experience.
Executive producers for cinema are Julie Borchard-Young and Robert Borchard-Young for BY Experience, Susan A. Loewenberg for L.A. Theatre Works, and Harold Wolpert for Roundabout Theatre Company.
Due to demand, the critically acclaimed Broadway engagement of The Importance of Being Earnest was extended 17 weeks through July 3.
