Deborah YaffeNov 20Rebooting Clueless: The Musical Almost five years ago, I saw the off-Broadway production of Clueless: The Musical and found it a disappointingly pallid version of the...
Deborah YaffeNov 16Jane Austen universe(s), Part IIIf you spend your days reading Jane Austen novels and consuming Jane Austen adaptations and talking to fellow Jane Austen fans and...
Deborah YaffeNov 6AdaptableIn the two centuries since Jane Austen’s death, her novels have proved almost infinitely adaptable, transmuted into stage plays, radio...
Deborah YaffeAug 28Austen the agreeableAsk Janeites about their favorite author’s political and social views, and you’ll often hear arguments that boil down to this: Jane...
Deborah YaffeAug 10Janeite madeleineFor Jane Austen fans, few pieces of music are as instantly recognizable as the Mozart-esque piano concerto that accompanies the credit...
Deborah YaffeAug 7P&P BarbieThe summer’s biggest movie, Greta Gerwig’s delightful and touching Barbie, knows women well—really, really well. The proof? Mr. Darcy...
Deborah YaffeJul 31Jane Austen universe(s)In the world of Jane Austen fanfic--whether on page, stage, or screen--there are, it sometimes seems, no new ideas. Jane Austen with...
Deborah YaffeJul 6P&P down on the farmEarlier this year, the off-Broadway 59E59 Theaters hosted a one-man show about the afterlife of Pride and Prejudice’s villainous Mr....
Deborah YaffeJun 22Text and subtextThese days, some thirty years after the literary critic Edward Said first offered a post-colonial reading of Mansfield Park, the idea...
Deborah YaffeJun 19Using up the leftoversBefore leaving on vacation, I always try to clean out my refrigerator—no point in coming home to sour milk and moldy vegetables. Since I...
Deborah YaffeMay 15Being Mr. Wickham, againOver the past four years, the British actor Adrian Lukis has spent a lot of time being Mr. Wickham. In late 2019, Lukis – who, as...
Deborah YaffeMay 11Trouble at LymeMr. Darcy, aka Colin Firth, is riding a white horse when he comes home to Pemberley, aka Lyme Park, in the BBC’s iconic 1995 adaptation...