Dates Announced for THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST in Theaters

Roundabout Theatre Company, L.A. Theatre Works and BY Experience are thrilled to announce dates and venues for the upcoming screening of Roundabout's critically acclaimed Broadway production of Oscar Wilde's comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by and starring Brian Bedford.

The Importance of Being Earnest: Live in HD will screen across the U.S. and internationally on Thursday, June 2, 2011 and varying dates through June 28. Digitally equipped movie theaters and performing arts centers throughout the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Mexico, and throughout Europe have signed on to host special screenings.

This high-definition event brings the best of Broadway to movie audiences, and includes the added bonus of host David Hyde Pierce taking viewers backstage for special behind-the-scenes peek! Mr. Hyde Pierce says: "This delightful production of Earnest shouldn't be missed, and for the people who can't see it on Broadway, Broadway is coming to them." Alfred Molina and Oscar Wilde expert Michael Hackett will 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 (227 West 42nd St.) and features the original cast of this new Broadway production. The Importance of Being Earnest is a glorious comedy of mistaken identity, which ridicules codes of propriety and etiquette. Dashing men-about-town John Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff pursue fair ladies Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew. Matters are complicated by the imaginary characters invented by both men to cover their on-the-sly activities - not to mention the disapproval of Gwendolen's mother, the formidable Lady Bracknell.

A full list of participating cinemas, exhibition dates and ticket prices is available at www.EarnestHD.com. New venues will continue to be added.

U.S. VENUE & DATE INFORMATION:
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 2
CONNECTICUT
Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center (Old Saybrook, CT) - June 7
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 2
MASSACHUSETTS
Amherst Cinema (Amherst, MA) - June 2, 18, 21, 26
Cape Cinema (Dennis, MA) - June 2
Coolidge Corner (Boston, MA) - June 23
Julie Harris Stage (Wellfleet, MA) - June 4, 11, 18, 25
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center (Great Barrington, MA) - June 9
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 6
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, 13
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, 104
Ambler Theater (Ambler, PA) - June 2, 5, 12
Bryn Mawr Film Institute (Bryn Mawr, PA) - June 2, 5
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 2
TENNESSEE
Paradiso Cinema (Memphis, TN) - June 12, 14
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 12
VIRGINIA
The Paramount Theater (Charlottesville, VA) - June 4 two showings
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Shakespeare Theatre Company, Sidney Harman Hall (Washington, DC) - June 28
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