You might think you know what to expect from The Importance of Being Earnest, given that Oscar Wilde’s classic has been around since 1895. But don’t be fooled—Max Webster’s staging is anything but conventional. The play follows two young men living double lives as a way to dodge social obligations, each of them adopting the alias Ernest and each pursuing separate love interests. When their deceptions catch up with them, the libertines are entangled in their lies. The play, described by Wilde himself as a “delicate bubble of fancy,” is this time brought to life with contemporary music, high-camp costumes (think Sex Education’s Ncuti Gatwa in a gown and pink gloves), and a vibrant queer sensibility. “Fun? The production is that, to be sure,” writes the New York Times critic Matt Wolf. “Or as these characters might prefer to put it, ‘faaaabulous.’” —Jeanne Malle