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Stockard Channing to Star in The Importance of Being Earnest in Dublin

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January 26, 2010

Stockard Channing
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
Stockard Channing
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Tony Award winner Stockard Channing will play Lady Bracknell in Rough Magic Theatre’s revival of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, to begin performances on June 2 at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin, according to a report in The Irish Times. Additional casting and creative team will be announced at a later date.

Channing won a Tony Award for Joe Egg, and received additional Tony nominations for her performances in The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, Four Baboons Adoring the Sun, The Lion in Winter, and Pal Joey. She won Emmy Awards for The West Wing and The Matthew Shepard Story, and was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the the film version of Six Degrees of Separation.

For further information, visit www.roughmagic.ie.

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