"Jane Austen's Emma"

Jane Austen’s Emma

Paul Gordon (Music, Lyrics & Book)

Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

Travis Leland & Lianne Marie Dobbs

With a bit too much pride in the prejudices she firmly holds about who should be married to whom, Emma allows her sense and sensibilities to cloud her good-hearted judgments about others’ lives and to squelch her own true feelings of love.  And in Paul Gordon’s Jane Austen’s Emma as revived by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, she does so in a gloriously stunning stage setting, through soaring and memorable music, and with many more comedic twists and turns than most Austen readers will associate with the much-loved author.

Please click to read my review of this MUST SEE production: http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/sanjose/sj18.html

Rating: 5 E’s

The production of Jane Austen’s Emma by TheatreWorks Silicon Velley continues through January 2, 2015 at Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.  Tickets are available at http://www.theatreworks.org/box-office/buy-tickets/ .

Photo by Kevin Berne