We’re still in the middle of the latest Austen on Film madness, and now all of a sudden we’re experiencing a run of Austen on Stage as well! (Not complaining!)

Alert Janeite Lisa reminded us of a stage production of Northanger Abbey that will be performed at the Salisbury Playhouse (which Catherine Morland probably passed on her way home from the Abbey–though we dare say she was too distracted to notice), September 6-21. Alert Janeite Reeba will be attending one of the performances and we hope to get a full report! (And any other AustenBlog readers who see it are welcome to send their reviews as well.) The ever-thorough Cub Reporter Heather L. has tour dates and locations for this production on her NA adaptations page at Solitary Elegance. Why, hello, Mr. Tilney.

We’ve blogged recently about the two most recent P&P musical adaptations, and we’re pleased to report that the UK won’t be left out of the fun. I Love You Because, a modern-set, gender-switched musical adaptation of P&P that had an off-Broadway run last year, will have a run at London’s Landor Theatre from 10 September through 20 October. Tickets are £15.

And on this side of the pond, Paul Gordon’s musical adaptation of Emma opens next week and runs through September 16. Alert Janeite Lisa directed us to an article in the Bay Area Reporter about the composer.

And when those characters sing, it will be in Gordon’s contemporary interpretation of the early 19th century. “I just sort of organically write the music I hear, and my sensibility has always been musical theater and the Beatles,” he said. “I don’t want to stray too far away from what would be aligned with the period, but I’m not writing period music. What I’ve done in Emma is keep my sort-of pop musical theater sensibilities, but I’ve scored it for four instruments: piano, oboe, violin, and cello. So I’m giving it a chamber sound. The one place where I am relentless about being accurate is in the lyrics. The lyrics must absolutely be period.”

Sounds like a winner! TheaterMania also has an article about the play.

A different musical version of Emma also will be staged in New York in October as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival, as will Austentatious, a musical about a community theater group putting on a very, very bad production of Pride and Prejudice. (The Editrix saw Austentatious last year at the Philly Fringe Festival and enjoyed it immensely.)