Chicago Tribune - Recommended
"...The piece is, frankly, fan fiction that takes full advantage both of Austen's popularity and her residing in the public domain. But it's plot-driven fan fiction that bespeaks of very impressive craft and, last Friday night, the audience was cooing with the delight that comes from enjoying familiar characters in new stories. Theaters often say they need to compete more with streaming TV and, well, this is a clever way to exploit our current obsession with the episodic."
Daily Herald - Recommended
"...Jane Austen has been very good to playwrights Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon. More specifically, Austen's beloved "Pride and Prejudice" characters have been good to the duo whose holiday-set "Christmas at Pemberley" trilogy concludes with the charming "Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley" premiering simultaneously at Skokie's Northlight Theatre and at theaters in Minnesota and California."
Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended
"...Marti Lyons’s production, particularly the music by Christopher Kriz which holds such a central role in the love story, is impeccable. You don’t need to have seen the other plays to enjoy this one, though if you have you’ll enjoy the notion that the others are taking place simultaneously, just offstage. That makes Christmas at Pemberley a sort of dramaturgical layer cake—a delicious one."
Around The Town Chicago - Highly Recommended
"...Every performance at the Center for Performing Arts in Skokie is a wonderful, enriching experience. This performance of “Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley” was no exception."
Chicago Theatre Review - Highly Recommended
"...Fans of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and those theatergoers who’ve enjoyed Northlight’s previous stylish and entertaining “Christmas at Pemberley” productions, will adore this third installment of the trilogy. Playwrighting duo Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon once again transport us back to Regency England in this charming comic drama with a feminist theme. Music, as Shakespeare once said, becomes the food of love and brings two lonely hearts together. Blessed with a great script, a splendid cast and directed by an artist who knows how to make the holidays festive and fun, Northlight Theatre offers another wonderful opportunity to spend Christmas at Pemberley."
Buzznews.net - Highly Recommended
"...I highly recommend this cheerful, funny, romantic show for audiences of all ages who would like to enjoy a pleasant evening revisiting some of the most beloved Jane Austen characters in a classic yet freshly presented production set in turn of the century London."
Evanston Roundtable - Highly Recommended
"...The treat of the production is appreciating the amazing talent and complimentary interpretations of the actors to each other and to their roles. What an ensemble! If for no other reason, watching them is recommendation for the experience."
NewCity Chicago - Highly Recommended
"...The third and final play of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s “Christmas at Pemberley” triptych was given its “rolling world premiere” Friday night at Northlight Theatre. Northlight has co-commissioned all three plays, which speculate how the beloved characters in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” spend Christmastime, 1815."