Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley
Main Street at the Mic: 2020 Holidays: Passover through New Year’s
with Main Street Theater
Miss Bennet: Dec. 11 – 13
The Wickhams: Dec. 18 – 20
Main Street at the Mic: Dec. 17 – 20
This December Main Street Theater is bringing back the holiday favorites Miss Bennet and The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley via live, staged readings on Zoom. Main Street has been offering the Pemberley plays – based on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and written by acclaimed playwright Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon – for the last few seasons. The readings will be performance on Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30pm and Sundays at 3:00pm, live on Zoom.
Additionally, Main Street Theater will be offering its third Main Street at the Mic event: 2020 Holidays: Passover to New Year’s December 17 – 20 on YouTube. You can join Main Street for a live premiere of the event on YouTube Thursday night, December 17 at 7:30pm.
Tickets for all the offerings are FREE, though registration is required for Pemberley and requested for MS Mic. Donations are also appreciated. Visit mainstreettheater.com for all the details. Email boxoffice@mainstreettheater.com with any questions.
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
By Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon
Directed by Robin Robinson
Live, staged readings via Zoom
December 11 – 13, 2020
Tickets: FREE but registration is required: bit.ly/PemberleyMST
A sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Miss Bennet is set two years after the novel ends and continues the story, this time with nerdy middle-sister Mary as the unlikely heroine. Mary is growing tired of her role as the dutiful middle sister in the midst of everyone else’s romantic escapades. When the family gathers for Christmas at Pemberley, an unexpected guest sparks Mary’s hopes for independence, an intellectual match, and possibly even love!
Featuring
Jessie Hyder as Mary Bennet
Ricardo Horacio Hernandez-Morgan as Arthur de Bourgh
Laura Kaldis* as Elizabeth Darcy
Spencer Plachy* as Fitzwilliam Darcy
Samantha West as Jane Bingley
Nathan Wilson as Charles Bingley
Christina Lopez as Lydia Wickham
Lindsay Ehrhardt as Anne de Bourgh
Annie Wild as Narrator
The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley
By Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon
Directed by Robin Robinson
Live, staged readings via Zoom
December 18 – 20, 2020
Tickets: FREE but registration is required: bit.ly/PemberleyMST
Regency romance is back for the holidays with Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley—a companion piece to the duo’s delightful Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley—both continuations of Jane Austen’s popular novel, Pride and Prejudice. As the events of Miss Bennet unfold upstairs at Pemberley, the servants below stairs find themselves in the midst of a different holiday scandal. An unwelcome visitor has stumbled into the hall in the middle of the night—Mr. Darcy’s nemesis and Lydia’s incorrigible husband, Mr. Wickham! The bustling housekeeper, Mrs. Reynolds, Cassie, the resilient new serving girl, and Brian, the helplessly romantic groomsman, must each balance their holiday preparations with keeping Wickham confined. But before long, everything reaches a boiling point, festivities spiral into chaos, and the truth comes to light! An utterly delightful holiday tale.
Featuring
Claire Hart-Palumbo* as Mrs. Reynolds
Nathan Wilson as Brian
Annie Wild as Cassie
Spencer Plachy* as Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy
Laura Kaldis* as Mrs. Elizabeth Darcy
Ricardo Horacio Hernandez-Morgan as George Wickham
Christina Lopez as Lydia Wickham
Lindsay Ehrhardt as Narrator
Main Street at the Mic: 2020 Holidays: Passover through New Year’s
Let’s share some joy as 2020 winds down and we catch up on the holidays!
On YouTube
December 17 – 20 online
Performed and filmed on MST’s Rice Village stage, Main Street at the Mic features local, professional actors Houston has come to know and love. Main Street at the Mic will be live streamed on Thursday, December 17 at 7:30pm on YouTube, and will be available to stream on demand through Sunday night, December 20. The event is free, though, of course, donations are always appreciated!
Featuring
Tamara Siler
Kara Greenberg
Chaney Moore
Gerardo Velasquez
Amanda Passanante
Rodrick Randall
Celeste Roberts
Jim Salners
Directed by Andrew Ruthven with Claudia Dyle on the piano.
Visit MainStreetTheater.com for all the details.
About Main Street Theater
Main Street Theater provides theater experiences for all ages. Founded in 1975, our MainStage produces professional, intimate, literary plays for adults and operates under an Actors’ Equity Association union contract; our Theater for Youth produces professional, engaging productions based on children’s literature for families and school groups, both in-house and on tour around Texas; and we offer Education and Outreach programs on-site and at satellite locations around the Greater Houston area for youth aged 4 – high school.
Main Street Theater is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for not-for-profit theaters, of Theatre for Young Audiences/USA (formerly ASSITEJ), the world theatre network of theatre for children and young people, and a founding member of Houston Arts Partners. Main Street Theater is funded in part the Texas Commission on the Arts.
