"People today can read these novels and say, ‘This woman is speaking to me,'" Lizzie Dunford, the director of Jane Austen’s ...
The likeness of Jane Bennet was so great that Austen wrote a letter home about the Pride and Prejudice lookalike.
While her inclusion of Miss Lambe, a Black character, is great, we should be wary of seeing it as representative of Austen having ‘radical politics’ ...
As Jane Austen celebrates her 250th birthday, Ava Pickett has adapted Emma for the stage. She’s taken a radical approach. She talks to Sarah Crompton about why Austen is still the best portrayer of ...
Ellie Potts goes dancing with her friends most weeks. They don’t put on the latest Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran, though — they much prefer English country dances that were popular more than 200 ...
The premise of “Eleanor the Great” is a time-honored one: A little fib told in an unguarded moment just grows and grows, eventually exploding out of the liar’s control. But the lie in this movie is ...
The actor's directorial debut focuses on an intergenerational friendship, a white lie, and the star power of June Squibb.