Note: This is a guest posting from Maren Robinson, production dramaturg for our spring/summer MainStage production of Pride and Prejudice. “I do think it is the hardest thing in the world, that your estate should be entailed away from your own children, I am sure, if I had been you, I should have tried long […]
The Regency you might not know might seem strangely familiar
Note: This is a guest posting from Maren Robinson, production dramaturg for our spring/summer MainStage production of Pride and Prejudice. The clothing, the customs and the class system of the Regency may seem distant from our own time, but ongoing foreign wars, a fragile economy, criticism of the wealthy and an active Evangelical movement could […]
Congratulations!
The 2012 Non-Equity Jeff Award nominations were announced today, and… Congratulations to ensemble member John Hildreth (New Adaptation), Mikhail Fiksel (Sound Design), Richard Gilbert & David Bareford (Fight Design), and Joanna Iwanicka (Puppet, Mask & Video Design) for their Jeff nominations for Watership Down! And to Christopher Kriz (Original Music and Sound Design) and Aly […]
The Enigmatic Jane
Note: This is a guest posting from Maren Robinson, production dramaturg for our spring/summer MainStage production of Pride and Prejudice. There is something enigmatic about Jane Austen that makes it difficult for readers to have a sense of her beyond her novel and a few meager biographical details and this sense of her as a […]
Pride and Prejudice is coming…
…and we can’t wait! (It began previews on April 20th and opens on April 30th.) P&P was last produced at Lifeline Theatre in 1992 and an artifact from that long-ago production was recently unearthed and posted on Facebook by Mr. Darcy 1992 (Frank David Nall). We re-post it here, in all its sepia-toned glory. 1992 […]
What is this connection we have to Pride and Prejudice?
Note: This is a guest posting from Maren Robinson, production dramaturg for our spring/summer MainStage production of Pride and Prejudice. Dear Reader, “What is this connection we have to Pride and Prejudice?” (This being a blog post in which neuroscientists and I will state the obvious about reading and still fail to capture the ineffable […]
Donuts and fables
The doughnut is out of the box! (Again!) Arnie goes to New York!!! Remember just last spring, when Frances and George wrote a delicious little musical called Arnie the Doughnut? Well, Arnie has received a big honor. It is one the musicals selected for the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF). So Arnie is packing […]
Long-time Lifeline funder, S&C Electric, gives Lifeline team a tour!
On March 30th, Lifeline staff, interns and ensemble were given a private tour of the S&C Electric facility just a few blocks from Lifeline. The trip was arranged between Alex (our shiny new development manager) and Sue Keyes of S&C, who is our main contact and advocate there. The S&C Electric Company was founded in […]