Actress and playwright Kate Hamill adapts the 1815 Jane Austen novel about a "clueless" matchmaker in early 19th century ...

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 ...

Fady Demian, Liza Giangrande and Josephine Moshiri Elwood in rehearsal for Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s production of "Emma." (Courtesy Actors’ Shakespeare Project) On a Saturday afternoon in October ...

Jane Austen’s enduring love story is brought to life as a romantic-comedy musical. The story revolves around Emma, a well-meaning, but disaster-prone matchmaker, who ignores her own romantic feelings ...

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 ...

“Even I’d hate that bitch,” Regine Vital says in her director’s note, referring to the eponymous character of her production of “Emma” for Actors’ Shakespeare Project. First introduced to the world in ...

Do you know which Jane Austen books these lines are from?

Jane Austen's adored heroine gets the musical treatment in Emma from acclaimed composer and lyricist Paul Gordon. A carefree woman, Emma Woodhouse has "the very best blessings of existence" with "very ...

Emma Thompson is such a big fan of Oscar-hopeful short Jane Austen’s Period Drama, she’s boarded the film as “executive menstrual advisor.” Julia Aks and Steve Pinder’s live-action comedy follows ...