Short Video: Pride and Prejudice, Austin Shakespeare at the Rollins Theatre, Long Center, to November 25

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Join us for the delightful world of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice from Nov. 7-Nov. 25 at the Long Center's Rollins Theater. Austin Shakespeare - bringing the classics to life! Click for more information at AustinLiveTheatre.com.

Upcoming: Pride and Prejudice, Austin Shakespeare at the Rollins Theatre, Long Center, November 7 - 25

presents

Jane Austen's

Pride and Prejudice

adapted by Joseph Hanreddy and J.R. Sullivan

November 7-25^th,Thursdays – Saturdays at 8:00 pm, Sundays at 3:00 pm.
(Note – there will be a pre-performance tea at the Long Center prior to each Sunday matinee at 1:30 pm for $25).
The Long Center’s Rollins Studio Theatre
701 West Riverside Drive, Austin TX 78704

RSVP: Tickets available now at www.TheLongCenter.org or call (512) 474-LONG (5664). Tickets also available at the 3M Box Office at the Long Center. Tickets range from $19 - $42.50. (Note – there will be a pre-performance tea at the Long Center prior to each Sunday matinee at 1:30 pm for $25).

Kicking off subscriptions for its 29^th Season, Austin Shakespeare presents Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice at the Long Center’s intimate Rollins Studio Theatre November 7-25^th. The professional (Actors’ Equity) company brings back award-winning actress Liz Beckham now as the smart, delightful “Elizabeth Bennet. Beckham recently won the Austin Critics Table award Best Actor for the company’s production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia last spring.

Austin Shakespeare’s production of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is new adaptation of one of literature’s most beloved romances involving the proud Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett. This new verson by Joseph Hanreddy and J.R. Sullivan will have scenic designs by Dutch painter, Emilie Houssart; costumes by recent UT graduate Haydee Antunano and set design by the award-winning, Jason Amato. The extensive 19^th century ballroom dance in the show will be choreographer by Austin choreographer, Toni Bravo.

About the cast: 

Liz Beckham (Elizabeth Bennet) - Austin Shakespeare: "Hannah" in Arcadia (Outstanding Acting in a Leading Role, Austin Critic's Table 2012). AUSTIN: "Pauline" in Dividing the Estate (ZACH Theatre). NEW YORK: "Miranda" in The Tempest, "Celia" in As You Like It (National Shakespeare Company) "Viola" in Twelfth Night (New England Shakespeare Festival); "Cornelia" in The Feigned Courtesans (New York Classical Theatre). SELECTED REGIONAL THEATRE: "Scout" in To Kill A Mockingbird, "Tranio" in Taming of the Shrew, "Dorine" in Tartuffe (Burning Coal Theatre Company, Raleigh); "Lizzie" in Neil Patrick Harris' Accomplice: Hollywood (LA). TELEVISION: Chappelle's Show. Liz has studied at the Actor's Center Conservatory NYC, Steppenwolf West and UCB in LA, and holds a BFA in Acting from Otterbein University. www.lizbeckham.com. AEA/SAG-AFTRA.

Michael Miller (Darcy) is returning to Austin Shakespeare after appearing as “Tybalt” in Romeo and Juliet and “Richard III” in Wars of the Roses. Previous Austin credits include Captain Keller in City Theatre’s The Miracle Worker; as a Guest Artist at St. Edwards University Galileo; for ZACH: Closer, and The Last Night of Ballyhoo at ZACH; “Tesla” in Rude Mechanical’s Requiem for Tesla; and “Einstein” in The State Theatre’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile. He received a BFA in Theatre from Texas State University and an MFA in Acting from UT Austin.

Emilie Houssart (Scenic Designer) is a Dutch oil painter and printmaker who grew up in Britain. Stage production is a lifelong interest of hers, and she is delighted to be working with Austin Shakespeare on Pride and Prejudice. Previous collaboration with the company includes her set design for Julius Caesar (Young Shakespeare) as well as scenic painting for Arcadia and Twelfth Night; she has also worked extensively for the Yorke Trust (UK) on their opera productions. Emilie trained in Old Master portraiture at the Charles Cecil Studios in Florence on a teaching scholarship, graduating in 2006. She currently teaches at her studio at Pump Project in Austin and works on select commissions alongside personal projects. Some of her work can be seen at www.emiliehoussart.org.

Haydee Antunano (Costume Designer) is a recent graduate from UT Austin. Her costume design work has been seen within the Dance Department at UT Austin, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom with Poison Apple Initiative, Sing Muse at the Vortex, and Doctor Faustus with Last Act Theatre Company.

Jason Amato (Lighting Designer) Jason Amato’s career has spanned 18 years, designing over 500 local and international shows. You can often see his work at ZACH, Austin Shakespeare, Blue Lapis Light and the Vortex. The Austin Critics Table has honored Jason for outstanding lighting in 30 shows. He has also received B. Iden Payne Awards for his lighting of Troades, Trickster, The Exonerated, Omnium-Gatherum, Triskelion, Panoptikon, Despair's Book of Dreams, and The Deluge. In 2002 he was honored with “Best Dazzler” in The Austin Chronicle’s Critics’ poll. In 2008, Jason received the "Outstanding Contribution to Austin Theater" award from Austin Circle of Theaters. He also has a website of his work www.jasonamato.com

Cast 

Mr. Bingley	Keith Paxton
Mr Bennett / Mr Gardiner	Sam Grimes
Mr. Collins	Steve Cruz
Mr. Darcy	Michael Miller
Mr. Wickham	Devin Finn
Col. Fitzwilliam	Nick Kier
Young Ensign Denny	John Austin
Mrs Bennet/Lady Catherine DeBourgh	Johanna Whitmore
Miss Elizabeth Bennet	Liz Beckham
Miss Jane Bennet	Rosalind Faries
Miss Mary Bennet/ Miss DeBourgh	Jessica Hughes
Miss Kitty Bennet /Miss Georgiana	Linsley Howard
Miss Lydia Bennet	Sara Cormier
Miss Caroline Bingley	Aidan Sullivan
Lady Lucas/ Mrs. Gardiner	Sue Breland
Miss Charlotte Lucas /Mrs. Reynolds	Allison Stebbins

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ABOUT AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE: Founded in 1984 and the only professional classical theater company in Central Texas, Austin Shakespeare presents professional theatre of the highest quality with an emphasis on the plays of William Shakespeare, bringing to the public performances that are fresh, bold, imaginative, thought-provoking, and eminently accessible, connecting the truths of the past with the challenges and possibilities of today. Continuing in its fourth year of Young Shakespeare at Richard Garriott’s Curtain Theater, an outdoor replica of an Elizabethan theater. Austin Shakespeare will present a teen production of Julius Caesar from June 21-July1. In the fall and spring, Austin Shakespeare also produces plays by Shaw, Schiller, and Stoppard at The Long Center for the Performing Arts Rollins Studio Theatre. Austin Shakespeare’s ongoing “Shakespeare Aloud” reading group and “Artist’s Way” sessions invite new participates weekly. Austin Shakespeare’s education program 20/20 sends professional actors into the schools to encourage love of language.
Austin Shakespeare is a proud member of the Austin Creative Alliance.

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2012-2013 tickets for Austin Shakespeare Now on Sale via Long Center

announces that season tickets its two-play season at the Rollins Theatre are now on sale through the Long Center box office.

Prices for the season package are approximately $32 per ticket plus a $4 service charge.

Individual tickets are approximately $28 per ticket plus a $4.75 service charge for general admission and $17 + $2.75 service charge for students.

Click HERE to go to the Long Center ticketing service page for Austin Shakespeare.

Austin Shakespeare Announces 2012-2013 Season

announces its 2012 - 2013 season

(www.AustinShakespeare.org)

In three locations with four productions the professional Austin Shakespeare company will bring audiences comedy and romance with Noel Coward's Design for Living and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice at the Rollins Theater, plus teens in Shakespeare’s beautiful story of parents and their youngsters Romeo and Juliet at the Curtain Theater.

Noel Coward’s

Design for Living

November 7 – 25, 2012

at the Long Center’s Rollins Theater. From one of the world’s most popular wits, a provocative story of three friends who engage in a complicated, comic, and loving, relationship. 

Jane Austen’s

Pride and Prejudice

February 6 – 24, 2013

at the Long Center’s Rollins Theater. A new adaptation of one of literature’s most beloved romances involving the proud Mr. Darcy and the clever Elizabeth Bennett. Features extensive 19th century ballroom dance. The new version by Joseph Hanreddy and J.R. Sullivan has been enormously successful at regional theaters around the U.S. recently especially at Oregon Shakespeare.

Shakespeare’s

The Winter’s Tale

May 1-26, 2013

FREE Shakespeare in the Park at the Zilker Hillside Theatre. A dark romance fueled by the war between jealousy and joy, set in Latin America, staged with tango choreographed by Monica Caivano of Esquina Tango and culminating at Carnaval in Rio.

Young Shakespeare’s

Romeo and Juliet

June 20-30, 2013

at Richard Garriott’s replica of Shakespeare’s Curtain Theater off City Park Rd. (FM 2222 & Loop 360). Our fifth year with a new company of teen actors who competitively audition for this production directed and designed by professionals. Teen actors for this 6-week intensive program are selected through open auditions. 

ABOUT AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE: Founded in 1984 and the only professional classical theater company in Central Texas, Austin Shakespeare presents professional theatre of the highest quality with an emphasis on the plays of William Shakespeare, bringing to the public performances that are fresh, bold, imaginative, thought-provoking, and eminently accessible, connecting the truths of the past with the challenges and possibilities of today. Austin Shakespeare’s ongoing “Shakespeare Aloud” reading group and “Artist’s Way” sessions invite new participates weekly. Austin Shakespeare’s education program 20/20 sends professional actors into the schools to encourage love of language.  Austin Shakespeare is a proud member of the Austin Creative Alliance.

Pride and Prejudice, University of Texas, November 13 - 22

Pride and Prejudice at UT's B. Iden Payne Theatre is a beautiful, graceful production. This is a musical text, and not only because of the jigs and reels at the balls sponsored by cheerful Mr. Bingley. Jane Austen's familiar novel about impoverished young ladies and their ultimately successful romances is written largely in dialogue, with cadence, understatement, wit, parry and riposte, quite as if it were a verbal score.

No wonder it has been so successfully translated to the cinema, again and again, and no wonder all 495 seats in the theatre appeared to be filled on opening night. James Maxwell's adaptation gives us much of that familiar dialogue verbatim and all the familar characters.

Read more and view images at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

NEW IMAGES for Upcoming: Pride and Prejudice, University of Texas, November 13 - 22

Production photos taken by J. Elissa Marshall, University of Texas, for Pride and Prejudice, November 5- 13 at the B. Ident Payne Theatre.


"James Maxwell adapts Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's timeless novel, originally published in 1813. The highly plot-driven comedy of manners set in 1811 centers on the Bennet family, a comfortable, but not excessively wealthy family living in the countryside of England. As the Bennets have five daughters and no sons, Mrs. Bennet's main objective in life is to find (wealthy) husbands for her daughters and retain Longbourn, the family estate, in the Bennet name.

"When Jane, the eldest daughter, falls in love with a wealthy landowner named Charles Bingle, Mrs. Bennet believes her problems solved. Bingle's snobbish family and his close friend and acquaintance Fitzwilliam Darcy have other ideas."

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View additional images at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Pride and Prejudice, University of Texas, November 13 - 22

UPDATE: Korri Kezar's pre-opening feature on Pride and Prejudice in the Daily Texan, November 12

Found on-line:

The surprise of love . . .
The University of Texas Department of Theatre and Dance
presents
Jane Austen's classic novel adapted for the stage

Pride and Prejudice

November 13 – 22, 2009
at the B. Iden Payne Theatre.

James Maxwell adapts Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's timeless novel, originally published in 1813. The highly plot-driven comedy of manners set in 1811 centers on the Bennet family, a comfortable, but not excessively wealthy family living in the countryside of England. As the Bennets have five daughters and no sons, Mrs. Bennet's main objective in life is to find (wealthy) husbands for her daughters and retain Longbourn, the family estate, in the Bennet name. When Jane, the eldest daughter, falls in love with a wealthy landowner named Charles Bingle, Mrs. Bennet believes her problems solved. Bingly's snobbish family and his close friend and acquaintance Fitzwilliam Darcy have other ideas.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com. . . .