Tag: jane austen
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Colorado Springs play reimagines Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson as women in season opener
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s spring of 2021 in London, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous sleuth and sidekick are about to meet. But this time they’re women. In playwright Kate Hamill’s “Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson, Apt. 2B,” Dr. Joan Watson, a recent divorcee, absconds to London after…
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Early music ensemble opens season with Regency Ball in Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save If you can walk, you can dance Jane Austen-style. Set aside the TikTok dance challenges and the line dancing for an afternoon, and try on English country dancing, the style popular in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Parrish House Baroque, a Colorado Springs quartet…
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Colorado Springs theater company to mount ‘Sense and Sensibility’ for holiday season
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s a timeless question: Is it best to follow our hearts or our heads? Many have tried to answer the unanswerable question, including Jane Austen, whose 1811 novel, “Sense and Sensibility,” explores its nuances. The story follows the three Dashwood sisters and their widowed mother…
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Colorado Springs theater company to mount ‘Sense and Sensibility’ for holiday season
It’s a timeless question: Is it best to follow our hearts or our heads? Many have tried to answer the unanswerable question, including Jane Austen, whose 1811 novel, “Sense and Sensibility,” explores its nuances. The story follows the three Dashwood sisters and their widowed mother after they’re forced to leave their family estate and move…
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Theatreworks in Colorado Springs announces new 2024-2025 season
Theatreworks will pay homage to classic authors in its upcoming season. The long-running professional, regional theater company at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, founded in 1975, will perform adaptations of works by William Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Henry James, along with the Colorado premiere of “The Heart Sellers,” a new play by Lloyd Suh,…
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Pikes Pick: Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion’ coming to Netflix
Count me in as super stoked about Netflix’s latest addition to the canon of films based on Jane Austen novels. “Persuasion” will debut July 15, and star Dakota Johnson as heroine Anne Elliott and Cosmo Jarvis as her ex-fiancé Captain Frederick Wentworth, whom she jilted when her family persuaded her he wasn’t good enough. In a…
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Pikes Pick: Spotify debuts free classic audiobooks
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save There’s more to Spotify than music. The online streaming service recently debuted nine classic audiobooks read by well-known performers, including actors Hilary Swank and Forest Whitaker and Broadway star Audra McDonald. Available now for free…
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Pikes Pick: Spotify debuts free classic audiobooks
There’s more to Spotify than music. The online streaming service recently debuted nine classic audiobooks read by well-known performers, including actors Hilary Swank and Forest Whitaker and Broadway star Audra McDonald. Available now for free are Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre” and Stephen Crane’s “Red Badge of Courage,” to name a few. I’m…
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Colorado Springs theaters livestreaming nightly holiday productions
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Grinch almost stole Christmas this year. But he was powerless in the face of two of the region’s longest-running arts organizations: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College and Theatreworks. The two institutions rounded up some of the Pikes Peak region’s best-loved musicians,…
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Colorado Springs theaters livestreaming nightly holiday productions
The Grinch almost stole Christmas this year. But he was powerless in the face of two of the region’s longest-running arts organizations: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College and Theatreworks. The two institutions rounded up some of the Pikes Peak region’s best-loved musicians, performers and other artists to perform nightly in two holiday…