Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cast of Emma at Rose Theatre (Marc Brenner) Austen purists beware: Ava Pickett’s modern-day take on Emma may well give you ...
Jane Austen’s most famous novel adapted into a screwball stage comedy? It’s a screwy idea and certainly not likely to please former English profs turned critics. Adapter Kate Hamill knew as much and ...
Another day, another seemingly pointless modernization of a beloved classic to announce. Author Alexander McCall Smith has agreed to pen an updated version of Jane Austen's Emma as part of The Austen ...
The creators of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, the Emmy-winning video blog based on Pride and Prejudice, are back with a new series based on Emma. Jane Austen's stories have been adapted numerous times, ...
Playwright Kate Hamill brings her signature wit and vibrant storytelling to Jane Austen's classic novel in this smart, spirited adaptation. Emma follows a well-meaning (if somewhat meddlesome) heroine ...
Ava Pickett is a writer on song. Her debut play 1536, a vivid chunk of reimagined history, won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for women playwrights. Now she’s followed it up with a riotously funny, ...
ST. LOUIS — The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis presents Emma, by Kate Hamill, based on the Jane Austen novel, December 3 - 21, 2025 at the Loretto-Hilton Center on the campus of Webster University.
You're in a sweaty nightclub in Essex. You're hammered. And your pushy best friend is trying to sort out your love life. It's Jane Austen's Emma, but not as you know it. For the uninitiated, the 1815 ...
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a theatre in want of sufficient funds, must be in possession of an adaptation. Rising star India Shaw-Smith, soon to grace our TV screens in Spartacus: ...