Jane Austen News

Open Book Theatre Company in Trenton gears up for another season of plays worth talking about

Single tickets for the 2018/2019 season at Kansas City Repertory Theatre will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 30, 2018. The tickets, which range in price from $38 to $97 for online purchases, and are as low as $10 for students the day of a performance, will be available online, in-person, and on mobile devices with the app.

Open Book Theatre Company is pleased to announce its fifth season.  The award winning professional theatre will present 5 plays, including a Michigan Premiere.  Two of the plays won Tony Awards for Best Play, and one of those also earned the Pulitzer.

A special, script-in-hand performance of PERSUASION, a new play by Sarah Rose Kearns, directed by Claire Moyer, will be performed on the afternoon of Today, July 14 at 3:30 PM, in the Victor Jory space at the Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater is pleased to announce the complete cast and creative teams for the 2018/19 Season fall shows including Songs for Nobodies, Guards at the Taj, The All Night Strut!, and Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley.

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park will begin selling single tickets for the 2018-2019 season on Monday, July 16. Single tickets will be available for all of 12 the season's productions, including the highly anticipated world premiere of CINCINNATI KING, a musical about Cincinnati's historic King Records, and the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit from the creator of Hamilton, IN THE HEIGHTS.

As well as individual acts, the Canterbury venue's Marlowe Theatre will host the popular Live At The Marlowe, while The Marlowe Studio has sneak previews of eight Edinburgh Fringe comedy acts.

Austentatious: The Improvised Jane Austen Novel has today announced five additional dates at the Savoy Theatre over autumn and winter.

Made in August LLC's inaugural production is a world premiere of the play Suspicious Activity, an LGBT adaptation of Jane Austen's famous novel Pride and Prejudice.

Clackamas Rep's SENSE & SENSIBILITY features creative direction and a great cast for a delightfully fun time.

Theatre6 and Catherine Schreiber are delighted to announce the return of Jane Austen's PERSUASION on a UK Tour, which opens at THEATRE ROYAL WINCHESTER on 10 September 2018.

The John W. Engeman Theater announces the cast and creative team for NEWSIES. Performances begin on Thursday, July 19 at 8:00pm and run through Sunday, September 2, 2018.

BroadwayWorld has a first look at Goodspeed's production of OLIVER! Check out video highlights from the production below!

A special, script-in-hand performance of PERSUASION, a new play by Sarah Rose Kearns, directed by Claire Moyer, will be performed on the afternoon of Saturday, July 14 at 3:30 PM, in the Victor Jory space at the Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Join Tron Theatre Company and Blood of the Young for a unique and colourful take on the definitive rom-com, Pride & Prejudice. Five vaguely familiar young women have a story to tell. You'll have seen them, emptying the chamber pots and sweeping ash from the grate, the overlooked and the undervalued making sure that everyone above stairs finds their happy ending. Because when you can't be the romantic lead in your own story, you have to play a supporting role in someone else's.

Clackamas Repertory Theatre opens its 2018 season with Kate Hamill's new adaptation of "Sense and Sensibility," June 28 - July 22 at the Osterman Theatre in Oregon City. Performances take place Thursday - Saturday at 7:30pm, with 2:30pm matinees. Tickets may be purchased at www.clackamasrep.org or by calling 503-594-6047.

Clackamas Repertory Theatre opens its 2018 season with Kate Hamill's new adaptation of "Sense and Sensibility," June 28 - July 22 at the Osterman Theatre in Oregon City. Performances take place Today - Saturday at 7:30pm, with 2:30pm matinees. Tickets may be purchased at www.clackamasrep.org or by calling 503-594-6047.

Town Hall Theatre 'Generations' Season 2017-2018 closes with Kate Hamill's rollicking new adaptation of SENSE & SENSIBILITY, based on the classic novel by Jane Austen. SENSE & SENSIBILITY will have 12 performances, including two previews, May 31 through June 23, 2018, at Town Hall Theatre Company, 3535 School Street, in Lafayette, CA. Tickets are $18 - $30, and are available through the Box Office at (925) 283-1557 or online at www.TownHallTheatre.com.

Lovers of new theatre will gather this August for an advance look at tomorrow's hits at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's 2018 New Works Festival at Palo Alto's Lucie Stern Theatre. This unique festival offers audiences an extraordinary opportunity to experience new plays and musicals in their early stages of development, and hear about the creative process in a "Meet the Artists" panel discussion. With multiple performances of each work, playwrights and composers are able to rewrite scenes, add or delete songs, revise and refine, allowing audiences to return and watch the exciting evolution of brand new pieces of American theatre.

The 413 Project Theater will open a play adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility on June 22nd, 2018, at the Tea Lane Parlor in Fallbrook.