The Importance of Being Earnest Friday and Saturday Jan. 15-16, 22-23 8pm Sunday, Jan. 17 and 24 2pm Hoogland Center for the Arts 420 S. Sixth Street 523-2787 $13 adults, $12 seniors/children

Comedic caper

This weekend and next, Springfield Theatre Centre presents Earnest Oscar Wilde’s comedy of mistaken identities and deflated Victorian pomposity. No one is quite who they seem to be in this witty farce. Directed by Rebecca Loschen and produced by Jim Leach. The cast includes Matthew Husky as Algernon; Steven Stowers as Jack; Jessica McCormik as Cecily; and Cassie Poe as Gwendolyn, among others.