Pride and Prejudice adapted by Joseph Hanreddy, J.R. Sullivan

"This adaptation of Jane Austen's masterpiece honors the source material through a contemporary theatrical lens... Set within an elaborate social fabric, this adaptation may well be the best of many for stage or film that have emerged in recent years."

"Joseph Hanreddy and J. R. Sullivan have created a production that moves smoothly and quickly, without sacrificing the humor and romance that is its essential appeal."

"Beautifully told....both Jane Austen's words and my own desires were fulfilled perfectly."

"I've grown to know [the play] intimately, and it is so wonderful. Lean and dramatic, energetic and forward-moving, but still with all the emotional subtleties and grace one hopes for from Austen. It's romantic, funny, sweet, and satisfying -- I just love it."

"Of the many adaptations of the novel, Hanreddy and Sullivan's is the only one without a narrator. It's a lucid telling of the story, if necessarily compressed, and audiences may well wonder why we would need a narrator. The device inevitably raises questions about point of view and reliability. The script is a straightforward if much streamlined dramatization of Austen's novel and in no way a modernization. There is no deconstruction happening here, and the only ironies are Austen's."

"...witty and bright and kinetic and will no doubt delight anybody touched by the unlikely but unabated vogue for Austen."

"Austen's classic novel of class and romance in the early 1800s maintains an earned fascination from its clear-eyed and satiric view of the now-vanished world it encompasses."

"In Jane Austen's much-loved novel of manners, Pride and Prejudice, love and marriage may not go together like a horse and carriage. But the new stage adaptation by Joseph Hanreddy and J.R. Sullivan positively moves at a canter. It sparkles and enthralls and is delightfully played out in a charming, minimalist production with emphasis on dancing and music."

"The spare stage adaptation by Joseph Hanreddy and J.R. Sullivan relays Austen's satire of social structures and also her underlying dissatisfaction with their restrictions."

"Jane Austen's book Pride and Prejudice works even better as a play (adapted by Joseph Hanreddy and J.R. Sullivan)..."

"The icing on the cake this season is an adaptation by Joseph Hanreddy and J.R. Sullivan of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice..."