Yowza! Pride and Prejudice is a runaway train! Audience demand is such that we announced a 4-week extension about two minutes after we opened (or, as fast as the press release could be typed)! Erica also reports that two different couples buying tickets have told her that coming to Lifeline to see P&P together 20 […]
Pride and Prejudice EXTENDS!
BREAKING NEWS: Due to unprecedented ticket demand, we are thrilled to announce a four-week extension of Pride and Prejudice! Now running through July 8, 2012 (no performance 6/24) […]
The Entail that Drives a Novel
Note: This is a guest posting from Maren Robinson, production dramaturg for our spring/summer MainStage production of Pride and Prejudice. “I do think it is the hardest thing in the world, that your estate should be entailed away from your own children, I am sure, if I had been you, I should have tried long […]
The Regency you might not know might seem strangely familiar
Note: This is a guest posting from Maren Robinson, production dramaturg for our spring/summer MainStage production of Pride and Prejudice. The clothing, the customs and the class system of the Regency may seem distant from our own time, but ongoing foreign wars, a fragile economy, criticism of the wealthy and an active Evangelical movement could […]
Congratulations!
The 2012 Non-Equity Jeff Award nominations were announced today, and… Congratulations to ensemble member John Hildreth (New Adaptation), Mikhail Fiksel (Sound Design), Richard Gilbert & David Bareford (Fight Design), and Joanna Iwanicka (Puppet, Mask & Video Design) for their Jeff nominations for Watership Down! And to Christopher Kriz (Original Music and Sound Design) and Aly […]
The Enigmatic Jane
Note: This is a guest posting from Maren Robinson, production dramaturg for our spring/summer MainStage production of Pride and Prejudice. There is something enigmatic about Jane Austen that makes it difficult for readers to have a sense of her beyond her novel and a few meager biographical details and this sense of her as a […]
Pride and Prejudice is coming…
…and we can’t wait! (It began previews on April 20th and opens on April 30th.) P&P was last produced at Lifeline Theatre in 1992 and an artifact from that long-ago production was recently unearthed and posted on Facebook by Mr. Darcy 1992 (Frank David Nall). We re-post it here, in all its sepia-toned glory. 1992 […]
What is this connection we have to Pride and Prejudice?
Note: This is a guest posting from Maren Robinson, production dramaturg for our spring/summer MainStage production of Pride and Prejudice. Dear Reader, “What is this connection we have to Pride and Prejudice?” (This being a blog post in which neuroscientists and I will state the obvious about reading and still fail to capture the ineffable […]
Donuts and fables
The doughnut is out of the box! (Again!) Arnie goes to New York!!! Remember just last spring, when Frances and George wrote a delicious little musical called Arnie the Doughnut? Well, Arnie has received a big honor. It is one the musicals selected for the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF). So Arnie is packing […]
Long-time Lifeline funder, S&C Electric, gives Lifeline team a tour!
On March 30th, Lifeline staff, interns and ensemble were given a private tour of the S&C Electric facility just a few blocks from Lifeline. The trip was arranged between Alex (our shiny new development manager) and Sue Keyes of S&C, who is our main contact and advocate there. The S&C Electric Company was founded in […]