Saturday, June 15, 2013
Dundee Rep; Olivier; Old Vic, LondonIt's hard to believe that the National Theatre of Scotland has been going only seven years. In an age of free-floating, out-of-building theatres, this com…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:08PMSaturday, June 8, 2013
Lyttelton; Globe; Young Vic, LondonThe postcodes at the top of this column tell a theatrical story. The South Bank is the new West End. Over the past 10 years this strip has become essential…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:35PMFriday, June 7, 2013
Gate, London: Plays from Noel Coward's Private Lives to Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? have anatomised the desperate, verbally (and sometimes physically) viole…
Linked From The Stage at 08:09AMWednesday, June 5, 2013
Rob Maitner created the role of Mr. McQueen in the world premiere of URINETOWNat the NY International Fringe Festival. He made his off-Broadway debut at The WPA Theatre in the musical …
Linked From Visible Soul at 09:17PMPrivate Lives by Noel Coward, now playing at Vagabond Players, is over eighty years old but no less funny or relevant than when it first premiered in 1930. It tells the story of Elyot (Micha…
Linked From Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:00PMMonday, June 3, 2013
Jeeves and Wooster are heading to the West End! Stephen Mangan will star as the scatterbrained Bertie Wooster and Matthew Macfadyen will play Jeeves, his intelligent butler in Perfect Nonsen…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:56AMJeeves and Wooster are heading to the West End! Stephen Mangan will star as the scatterbrained Bertie Wooster and Matthew Macfadyen will play Jeeves, his intelligent butler in Perfect Nonsen…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:56AMSaturday, June 1, 2013
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. Particularly when one is on one’s honeymoon. Their second honeymoon with their second husband. Especially when one’s first husband is on his hone…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:08PMSome Other Mother | Two's Company Festival | Let The Right One In | Bracken Moor | Sweet Bird Of Youth | Pulse FestivalTwo's Company festival, HarrogateIn an attempt to adapt in a challengin…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:43AMWednesday, May 1, 2013
Following a sell-out run at Chichester Festival Theatre, Noël Coward's classic comedy PRIVATE LIVES - directed by Jonathan Kent and starring Anna Chancellor and Toby Stephens - comes to the…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 05:45AMTuesday, April 16, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "Creditors" by Remy Bumppo at Greenhouse Theater Center ★★★
The setup feels a tad reminiscent of Noel Coward's "Private Lives": A formerly married couple r…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 05:31PMMonday, April 15, 2013
We’ve brought puppeteers from New York, Boston, California, and Chicago to present short works, and featured local companies The Hey Lollies and Private Lives Puppet Theatre. Glass Half Fu…
Linked From HowlRound at 03:09PMFriday, April 12, 2013
Seth Numrich (recently seen in Golden Boy) and Kim Cattrall (of Sex and the City fame) will star in Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth at the Old Vic, reports The Daily Mail. Open…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:23AMWednesday, March 6, 2013
By Byrne Harrison
Scott Casper is a playwright, actor and Artistic Director of taxdeductible theatre. Through The Dare Project (an evening of ten minute pla…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 12:07AMMonday, March 4, 2013
As plans for the new Washington theater season take shape, the lineup across the region is looking ever nervier. Although an occasional company is going for the tried-and-true — witness th…
Linked From Washington Post at 06:30PMTuesday, February 12, 2013
A star-driven television movie about a famously tumultuous time in the relationship of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton? If it sounds like a flashback to last year’s Lindsay Lohan-l…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:56AMWednesday, February 6, 2013
Today in 1975, Private Lives opened at the 46th Street Theatre now the Richard Rogers Theatre, where it ran for 92 performances. Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by No…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:27AMMonday, February 4, 2013
For Noel Coward aficionados who don't exactly need another production of "Private Lives" or "Hay Fever," there's "Fallen Angels" at the Pasadena Playhouse.
Linked From Variety at 11:45PMWednesday, January 30, 2013
The news that Toby Stephens and Anna Chancellor are to appear in Noel Coward's Private Lives at the Gielgud gives a great boost to sentimental theatreland. Following the example of his fathe…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 03:04AMTuesday, January 29, 2013
The Chichester Festival Theatre production of Noel Coward’s 1930 comedy Private Lives will transfer to the West End, starring Toby Stephens, Anna Chancellor and Anna-Louise Plowman. Di…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:14AMChichester production toplines Anna Chancellor, Toby Stephens
Linked From Variety at 08:32AMThe Chichester Festival Theatre's production of Noel Coward's Private Lives will transfer to the Gielgud Theatre from 3 July 2013 (previews from 22 June).Toby Stephens and Anna Chancell…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 07:47AMMonday, January 7, 2013
The West End musical Top Hat has announced new stars for 2013. Previously reported star Gavin Lee (Mary Poppins) will be joined by Kristen Beth Williams (Nice Work If You Can Get I…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:20PMSaturday, December 29, 2012
Well, what can I say . . . 2012 wasn't the end of the world. So that was disappointing!On the upside, it did prove a solid year for local theatre and performance art. T…
Linked From The Hub Review at 12:26PMTuesday, December 18, 2012
It's become a truism that Strindberg's depiction of marital hell in The Dance of Death paved the way for the lacerating, liquor-fuelled slug-fest and the unholy game of “Get the Guests” …
Linked From The Independent at 08:12AMMonday, November 19, 2012
Gretchen Egolf and Alan Cox in Betrayal. Photos: T. Charles Erickson.A year or two ago, after several failed Pinter productions at the ART and elsewhere, I wondered aloud, "Is Pinter s…
Linked From The Hub Review at 02:27PMSaturday, October 27, 2012
Alas, it has been quite some time since I've handed out Hubbies - so some of the winners in this round were seen in the summer months. Somehow I don't think they'll mind the belated bo…
Linked From The Hub Review at 02:16PMFriday, October 12, 2012
Kim Cattrall, who last appeared in both the Broadway and West End productions of PRIVATE LIVES, will star in SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH at the Old Vic under the direction of WAR HORSE's Marianne El…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:50AMSaturday, October 6, 2012
It seems as if they live in an egg timer. So said the woman next to me as we took our seats for Berenice, Racine's rarely seen neo-classical tragedy, directed by the Donmar's artistic direct…
Linked From The Independent at 07:39PMThursday, October 4, 2012
Enlightening, charming and thoroughly entertaining.
Linked From Talk Entertainment at 09:00AMWednesday, October 3, 2012
It is an age-old question haunting some of us: What exactly is wit and what humor? Though hard to define individually, the difference between them is worth consideration and identifiable. Be…
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