Marriage is an inevitable fact of life for the five Bennet sisters -- Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia. With the family estate entailed away to their closest male cousin, their only hope to advance in life is to find a rich and single man -- and one has just arrived in the form of the very handsome and very well-off Charles Bingley.

The kindhearted and beautiful Jane seems poised to make a match, but must contend with her overly zealous mother, his snobbish sister, and a slippery social ladder. And when Bingley's taciturn friend Fitzwilliam Darcy shows an interest in the opinionated and spirited Elizabeth, the situation becomes more complicated than either of them expect.

The fire and wit of Jane Austen's classic 1813 romance shines through in this vibrant new adaptation.

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REVIEWS:

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

 The Spectrum & Daily News

"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."

 Medford Mail Tribune

"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."

 Sacramento Bee

"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."

 Ashland Daily Tidings

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

 Pacific Sun

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

 Bay City News