Deborah YaffeApr 16, 2020Tuning in to P&PLast week’s online premiere of a new musical version of Pride and Prejudice, streamed for free by Streaming Musicals, drew a more than...
Deborah YaffeApr 13, 2020More Austen for the quarantinedJust in case last Friday’s live-on-tape streaming version of a Pride and Prejudice musical hasn’t slaked your thirst for Austen...
Deborah YaffeApr 9, 2020Replenishing the larderAt this point, roughly three weeks into All-American Shelter at Home, you -- the average Janeite -- have probably watched, or re-watched,...
Deborah YaffeApr 6, 2020Sisterhood is powerfulI was not enthusiastic about Sanditon, the ITV/PBS series based on the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death. Although the show,...
Deborah YaffeMar 30, 2020TrippingPlans are apparently progressing for Trip, a gay-themed Pride and Prejudice update set on the New York gay mecca of Fire Island and...
Deborah YaffeMar 19, 2020Silver liningsThere’s an upside to everything, apparently – even a global pandemic that threatens to sicken and perhaps kill millions while tanking the...
Deborah YaffeMar 12, 2020Immortal, belovedTwenty-five years ago this summer, we Janeites flocked to movie theaters to see a brand-new modernization of Emma, set among affluent...
Deborah YaffeMar 2, 2020Emma againActor/playwright Kate Hamill has cornered the market on energetic, quirky theatrical adaptations of classic literature – Vanity Fair,...
Deborah YaffeFeb 24, 2020Emma fashionistaThe new feature-film adaptation of Emma opened this past weekend, but not, alas, in my neck of the woods, where we proles must wait until...