The Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ "Purpose" follows on the heels of their magnificently staged "August: Osage County," but unlike that dysfunctional family drama, this play…

Private Lives, Noël Coward's 1930 comedy about a divorced couple honeymooning with their new spouses, will return to Broadway for the 2026-27 season. The revival will be produced by Jeffrey Richards, Playf…

The revival will be produced by Jeffrey Richards, Playful Productions (Matthew Byam Shaw, Nia Janis, Nick Salmon), Rebecca Gold and M/B/P Productions.

The comedy, about a surprise reunion between a divorced couple, was last seen on Broadway in 2011.

A new production of PRIVATE LIVES by Noël Coward will be presented on Broadway in the 2026-2027 season. Learn more about PRIVATE LIVES and about the upcoming production.

A new production of Noël Coward’s Private Lives will be presented on Broadway in the 2026-2027 season, producers announced today. Information about the director, casting, dates and theater will be announce…

Sad news about the death of Maggie Smith. Her pre-Broadway performance in "Private Lives" in Boston in 1975 (which I saw nearly 50 years ago -- and wrote a show-off review for a suburban Massachusetts daily) wa…

Noel Coward Blends Farce & Wit in Elitist Encounters   by K. Marguerite Caronna Whether verbal, emotional, or physical, abuse is often fatal—especially for women. The glorification of an abusive couple,…

Underneath the surface gloss of Noël Coward’s comedy of manners is a serious truth: Marriage isn’t lovey-dovey. 

★★★ACCOLADE, WINDSOR THEATRE ROYAL Pokey questions about public figures' private lives Vintage Emlyn Williams play asks pokey questions about private-public tolerance, despite casting hole Times change, p…

Mature actors bring style and poignancy to Coward's brittle comedy There is a grainy piece of black and white film on YouTube featuring Noel Coward as the celebrity guest on a 1964 edition of the popular telev…

Maestro, Bradley Cooper’s new movie about legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, will have its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival. In his directorial follow-up to A Star Is …

Patricia Hodge and Nigel Havers will star in the classic Noël Coward comedy beginning next month.

By Douglas Mayo The West End transfer of Noël Coward's Private Lives starring Nigel Havers and Patricia Hodge has been announced at the Ambassador's Theatre This post Private Lives starring Nigel Havers and Pa…

Even when it is well-performed, as it is here, it is unclear whether Noël Coward's well-constructed comic concoction deserves another theatrical lease on life.

THE ROARING TWENTIES, ROLLING OVER THE EDGE When Noel Coward shocked and enthralled the 1920s with this most bitter and intense of his plays, he was meanwhile hastily finishing the farcical Hay Fever and workin…

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Olivier theatre; Donmar Warehouse, LondonBrian Friel’s thoughtful 1930s drama remains absorbing, while Noel Coward’s classic has fine cigarette work but fails to ignite This is a production which makes the …

Comedy classic plays up the pain that comes with pleasure It's not often with Private Lives that you feel Amanda and Elyot are one step away from a visit to A&E. But such is the startling force of Michael …

The first thing I said to my friend during the interval of Private Lives at the Donmar Warehouse was, ‘I don't remember this being a play about domestic violence’. We’d just witnessed Elyot (Stephen Manga…

Rachael Stirling and Stephen Mangan play the sparring ex-lovers in a production that emphasises domestic violence

The sun is setting on Michael Longhurst’s time at the Donmar Warehouse and his penultimate production is a timeless classic, Noel Coward’s sparky and charismatic relationship comedy about middle aged love, …

Donmar Warehouse, LondonStephen Mangan and Rachael Stirling bare their teeth in a show that dials up the violence and sometimes struggles to navigate the humour Love is a tempestuous, abusive affair in Michael …

NEVER FLAT, COWARD There ’s always a slight frisson when Noel Coward’s rueful, dark-streaked romantic comedy  is revived in our censorious age.  We are nine decades on from the night it first  set about …

The actor on sparring with Stephen Mangan in a new Private Lives, why she didn’t want to be a Bond girl, and what she learned from pulling pints Since scandalising BBC viewers more than 20 years ago in Tippin…

He presented himself as a message-free entertainer but, 50 years after his death, it is time to reconsider the variety of the great playwright’s work Anniversaries offer a chance for reappraisal. Fifty years …

Two-time Tony Award nominees Jennifer Simard and Adam Godley will join the cast of the upcoming Broadway musical Once Upon a One More Time. Simard will play the role of Stepmother while Godley will appear as Th…

My Favorite Recent Quote Comes From Author of Leopoldstadt"In a scene that takes place in 1955, the young Englishman says to the Jewish man, 'It can’t happen again.’ When the play was being written, I didn…

Founder director of the Hampstead theatre club who brought landmark productions to the London stageJames Roose-Evans, the founding director of the Hampstead theatre club, who has died aged 94, was a unique link…

Two couples settle into side-by-side suites, only for one half of each pair to discover that their ex-spouse is staying next door.

This reimagining of Noël Coward’s classic comedy of manners will have you rooting for scoundrels and cheering on charlatans.

“Extraordinary,” muses Amanda, the heroine of Noël Coward’s Private Lives, “how potent cheap music is.” Her rueful observation, uttered while she is standing on the terrace of a hotel where […] The…

The writer-actor's works include Present Laughter, Private Lives, and Blithe Spirit.

August Strindberg’s The Dance Of Death from 1900 has been credited with prefiguring the works of Beckett, Ionesco, Pinter and most notably provided a template for Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid Of Virginia W…

Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath; and touringRebecca Lenkiewicz’s version of this 1900 play loses the high stakes of the influential original August Strindberg is probably best known in the UK for his 1888 …

Beth Steel’s The House of Shades unites national politics and private lives through the fortunes of a working-class family from 1965 to 2019 Old myths die hard. One of the greatest in theatre is that the larg…

Season's other shows include "Private Lives," "Putting It Together" and annual production of "A Christmas Carol."

Gertrude Lawrence and Noël Coward in the stage production of Private Lives by Noël Coward, 1931. Photo by Vandamm. NYPL Digital Collections, Image ID: ps_the_cd4_42 "He was a virtuoso in all departments of…

Hall served as Production Stage Manager for several Broadway shows, beginning with Beyond the Fringe in 1962. Other notable productions include Promises, Promises; Private Lives; The Misanthrope; Sweeney Todd; …

Christopher Luscombe directs this stellar new touring production of Noel Coward's classic comedy, with Nigel Havers and Patricia Hodges as ex-spouses Elyot and Amanda.

By Libby Purves Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves reviews Nigel Havers and Patricia Hodge in Noel Coward's Private Lives which is now touring. This post REVIEW: Private Lives, Nigel Havers Theatre Company on…

THEY DO NOT GROW OLD AS WE IN THE STALLS GROW OLD       May as well tell you,  last week I had the ultimate pensioner experience, and it was a blast.   A midweek, senior-price matinee in staid … Continue…

Plus, Michael Urie will host a celebration of Broadway and New York City at Bloomingdale's.

The past year has, in many ways, turned a sharper lens towards our bodies, particularly our physical relationship to the world around us. The pandemic-fueled absence of bodily connection, and its impact on our …

Available onlineThere’s bedroom farce, a lip-sync to Purcell, a Rubik’s Cube contest and much more in this brilliantly executed hour of dance by Jo Strømgren Glimpsing life through other people’s windows…

Two Canadian icons, Paul gross and Kim Cattrall, came together for this production of the Noel Coward classic play Private Lives. Two divorcees meet when they accidentally book room next door to each other at a…

Actors Veanne Cox and Ezra Barnes have boiled the Noël Coward classic “Private Lives” to just its second act and given it a naturalistic modern-day COVID setting. Titled "Amanda & Elyot: All Alone," it…

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A newly discovered album contains intimate, joyful glimpses of the playwright drinking, partying and holidaying with his famous friends and lovers. The result is an astonishing insight into gay life in the inte…

BroadwayHD presents a dazzling line up of holiday classics and the premier of Peter Rothstein’s All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 plus Forever Plaid 20th Anniversary Special. November 30, 2020 -�…

Get your holiday theater fix this season, with the streaming premiere of Peter Rothestein's All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 on December 15th. Cozy up with other holiday favorites, including Irving Berl…

Lockdown Theatre, in association with The Royal Theatrical Fund, presents the Noël Coward comedy.

Judi Dench joins cast of A Marvellous Party to mark Coward’s 1920 playwriting debut and raise money for performers’ charities, while Emma Thompson features in Zoom reading of Private Lives The 100th anniver…

Robert Lindsay and Sanjeev Bhaskar will round out the company.

Lockdown Theatre, in association with The Royal Theatrical Fund, will present the Noël Coward comedy.

Live virtual read Of Noël Coward’s Private Lives for The Royal Theatrical Fund. Starring Sanjeev Bhaskar, Emilia Clarke, Robert Lindsay And Emma Thompson. The post Live Virtual Table Read Of Noël Coward’s…

By: David Sheward August 13, 2020: The intimate environs of cabaret will probably be the last aspect of the entertainment industry to return to normal in this COVID world. Patrons squeezed shoulder to shou…

Eight short plays take cues from the 1930 Noël Coward comedy — but now the stakes are different.

Actor Nigel Havers is launching his own touring company with a new production of Noel Coward's classic comedy Private Lives, in which he'll star with Patricia Hodge.

Touring company to debut in October with Coward comedy Private Lives starring Havers and Patricia Hodge Coronavirus and culture – a list of major cancellations Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coro…

By Douglas Mayo Private Lives Tour to be presented by The Nigel Havers Company and starring Nigel Havers and Patricia Hodge will tour in 2020-21. This post Private Lives Tour 2020-21 starring Nigel Havers and P…

Shopfront Arts Co-op’s ArtsLab: Behind Closed Doors, is a festival of five new creative works from six emerging artists. This

Red Bull Theater (Jesse Berger, Artistic Director | Jim Bredeson, Managing Director) today announced that submissions are now open for their 10th annual festival of 10-minute plays of heightened language and cl…

“Over a 40-year career, Luce … worked with the likes of Zoe Caldwell, George C. Scott and Claire Bloom as he wrote about the private lives of Charlotte Brontë, Lillian Hellman, Isak Dinesen, Zelda Fitzgera…

In an era of uncertainty and anxiety, New York theatre is shunning its obsession with private lives to throw a powerful spotlight on politics It used to be argued that British drama is driven by a fascination w…

King’s theatre; Church Hill theatre; the Studio, EdinburghEmotion is pared to the bone in Robert Icke’s thrilling new real-time adaptation of Sophocles. Plus, folk tales that leap off the stage, and a cult …

Then it became a “productivity tool” for work, and “regular folks don’t want to organize their private lives as if they were office jobs.” But it’s not too late to save the technology, if we start n…

Park theatre, London Christopher Durang’s breezy sextet of plays takes the cast from pique to panic as he explores the insecurities of performing life To complement its main-house production of Whodunnit (Un…

By Tim Hochstrasser Tim Hochstrasser reviews Noel Coward's Private Lives now playing at The Mill at Sonning. This post REVIEW: Private Lives, The Mill at Sonning ✭✭✭✭ first appeared on British Theatre. …

Of all Noel Coward’s plays, Private Lives is the one that epitomises his distinctive theatrical language. The wit is as dry as

Tam Williams’ production of Private Lives at the Mill at Sonning is clean and crisp, nicely framed with a lady accordoniste setting the location, and after a slowish start the piece moves up a gear in the sce…

Fun new Stratford production of Noel Coward classic doesn’t underline the camp qualities, but they’re amply present, all the same.

Old Red Lion, LondonEmma Hemingford’s promising debut gets under the skin of a troubled relationship and refuses to take sides Emma Hemingford has written and co-stars in this promising debut play about a ner…

In honor of Collins' birthday May 23, Playbill looks back at her interview from the February 1992 issue.

Filthy Rich, a new drama starring Broadway alums Corey Cott and Kim Cattrall, has been picked up as a series from Fox, according to Variety. The one-hour "southern Gothic family drama" is written, directed and …

Laura Linney is returning to Broadway next season in Elizabeth Strout’s “My Name is Lucy Barton.” The play will run at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre beginning Jan. 6, 2020, wit…