Beginning 9/19 KPCC 89.3 FM To Air L.A. Theatre Works' THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

This weekend, beginning Saturday, September 19 from 10 pm - midnight on 89.3 KPCC, L.A. Theatre Works will air The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, starring Emily Bergl, Charles Busch, Neil Dickson, Jill Gascoine, James Marsters, Christopher Neame, Matthew Wolf and Sarah Zimmerman. The broadcast can be heard locally in Southern California on Saturday from 10pm to midnight on KPCC 89.3 FM, and can also be streamed on demand at http://www.latw.org/.
 
This final play from the pen of Oscar Wilde is a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a lost handbag.  Jack and Algernon are best friends, both wooing ladies who think their names are Earnest, "that name which inspires absolute confidence."  Wilde's effervescent wit, scathing social satire, and high farce make this one of the most cherished plays in the English language. The broadcast includes an interview with Michael Hackett, a professor of theater at UCLA and the director of this production.

L.A. Theatre Works' radio theater series can also be heard on the following stations (check local listings for broadcast times): 89.7 WGBH, Boston, MA; 91.5 WBEZ, Chicago, IL; 94.9 KUOW, Seattle, WA;  90.1 WABE, Atlanta, GA; 94.1 KPFA, Berkeley, CA; 91.1 KRCB, North Bay (San Francisco, CA); 89.1 KVPR, Fresno, CA; 89.3 KPRX, Bakersfield, CA; and many other stations nationwide.

Major funding for L.A. Theatre Works’ broadcast series is provided by the S. Mark Taper Foundation.  Founded in 1989, the S. Mark Taper Foundation is a private family foundation dedicated to enhancing the quality of people’s lives by supporting non-profit organizations and their work in the community.