Posts Tagged ‘Jane Austen’
JANE AUSTEN UNSCRIPTED
Sunday, April 17th, 2022
Impro Theatre is back with Jane Austen Unscripted, their first in-person show in two-and-a-half years, and that means “new characters, new love stories, and new escapades” twice on Saturdays and twice on Sundays under sunny Toluca Lake skies in the Garry Marshall Theatre Garden.
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EMBRIDGE
Sunday, November 24th, 2019
Take a hearty dollop of Jane Austen romance, sprinkle in a dash of Oscar Wilde wit, and you’ve got Kathryn Farren’s Embridge, now captivating L.A. theatergoers in its World Premiere engagement at San Pedro’s Little Fish Theatre.
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JANE AUSTEN’S EMMA: THE MUSICAL
Sunday, December 2nd, 2018
If Jane Austen didn’t exactly invent the contemporary romantic comedy, she came pretty darned close, proof positive of which can be found in Jane Austen’s Emma: The Musical, Paul Gordon’s magical stage adaptation of Miss Emma Woodhouse’s misadventures in matchmaking circa 1815, now getting a picture-perfect Orange County Premiere at Chance Theater.
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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Wednesday, September 19th, 2018
The Dashwood sisters fall truly, madly, deeply in love once again as South Coast Repertory treats Jane Austen fans to Sense And Sensibility, its daringly cast and deliciously performed 2018-2019 season opener.
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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Monday, July 25th, 2016
The Dashwood Sisters sing, and gloriously so, in Paul Gordon’s charming, witty, heartstrings-tugging musical adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense And Sensibility, Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s gift, not just to San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre and Jane Austen lovers across the Southland, but to anyone in the mood for music, laughter, tears, and romance-with-a-capital-R.
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THE ELLIOTS
Friday, May 15th, 2015RECOMMENDED
Readers have been rooting for Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth to rekindle their long-lost love since Jane Austen’s Persuasion first hit the book stalls back in 1817. L.A. theatergoers can now follow their example as South Pasadena’s Fremont Centre Theatre debuts A.J. Darby’s 2015 adaptation, retitled The Elliots. Yes, both Darby’s play and its World Premiere production could stand some tweaking, but Persuasion fans will find much to enjoy in two hours spent with Austen’s now iconic characters.
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JANE AUSTEN’S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, A MUSICAL
Monday, April 20th, 2015
If a World Premiere musicalization of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice in which the 19th-century novelist figures not only as part of its title but as one of the its leading players seems fraught with peril, then Austen fans can rest assured. To quote from La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts’ next-up Mary Poppins, Jane Austen’s Pride And Prejudice, A Musical is practically perfect in every way.
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Monday, February 9th, 2015
Jane Austen’s Pride And Prejudice has rarely if ever been more deliciously, delightfully entertaining than Actors Co-op’s irresistible new staging of Helen Jerome’s 1936 adaptation of Miss Austen’s two-centuries-old classic.
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