Wow! Lifeline’s benefit last night (“An Austen Soiree”) was a ball! (Seriously, we were in a ballroom!) Plus we raised a bunch of dough. THANK YOU to the cast of Pride and Prejudice and all our artist friends who suited up in regency wear to create the ambience. Thank you to Aly Renee Amidei for […]
Category: Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is selling like hot cakes. Hot. Cakes.
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 […]
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 […]