The new Broadway production of Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels announced its complete cast and design team. As previously reported, Tony winner Kelli O’Hara and Golden Globe winner Rose Byrne will star as Jul…

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the complete cast and design team for the upcoming production of Fallen Angels by Noël Coward, directed by Tony Award-nominee Scott Ellis. Fallen Angels will star pr…

Director Gordon Greenberg join The Old Globe's Kim Heil to discuss Noises Off. Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminars provide Globe patrons with an opportunity to closely connect with productions both onstage…

Noises Off, the uproarious backstage comedy that pulls back the curtain on a theatre company struggling to keep its production from falling apart, plays July 6 through August 10, 2025. Find tickets at https://…

Laughs abound in this terrific production about a British sex comedy gone hilariously wrong.

Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays returns to its stage this summer to lead the cast of Michael Frayn’s side-splitting backstage farce Noises Off at The Old Globe in San Diego. Directed by Gordon Greenberg, per…

GRACE PERVADES        Theatre Royal Bath     Theatre is fond of sending itself love letters, albeit – from Sheridan’s The Critic to Frayn’s  Noises Off – often prudently laced with affectionate m…

Steppenwolf Theatre Company just celebrated opening night of Noah Diaz’s Chicago premiere of You Will Get Sick. Directed by Artistic Director Audrey Francis (Noises Off, POTUS–Director), the cast features e…

The production will be directed by Gordon Greenberg (Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors).

Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays will return to its stage this summer to lead the cast of Michael Frayn’s side-splitting backstage farce Noises Off at The Old Globe in San Diego. Directed by Gordon Greenberg,…

PBS Great Performances recently shared a new clip of "So In Love" from the West End proshot of Kiss Me, Kate, starring Tony Winner Stephanie J. Block. In the clip, Lilli (Block) realizes she is still in love wi…

PBS Great Performances recently shared a new clip from the West End proshot of Kiss Me, Kate, starring Tony Winner Stephanie J. Block. In the clip, divorced couple Lilli (Block) and Fred (Adrian Dunbar) express…

PBS Great Performances recently shared a new clip from the West End proshot of Kiss Me, Kate, starring Tony Winner Stephanie J. Block. In the clip, the cast of "The Taming of the Shrew" prepares for opening nig…

The Stephen Joseph Theatre has announced the cast for its upcoming production of Noises Off, the first time Michael Frayn’s legendary farce will be staged in-the-round

PBS Great Performances has shared a new clip from the West End proshot of Kiss Me, Kate, starring Tony Winner Stephanie J. Block. In the clip, the cast can be seen performing the show-stopping number "Too Darn …

 A MODERN CLASSIC DONE WITH VIGOUR   Michael Frayn’s play-about-actors is always welcome: a comic masterpiece and loving study in theatre’s own absurdity. The first act shows a final limping rehearsal for…

You feel perturbed when things go wrong in real life, but it’s such delicious fun when it happens onstage. And Noises Off at Gulfshore Playhouse is filled with missed cues, forgotten and disappearing props, d…

The hilariously wild three-act play by English playwright Michael Frayn, Noises Off, is a famous slapstick comedy where everyone gets caught in the act. A co-production with Steppenwolf Theatre Company, this l…

Broadway Games: Where Haven't We Seen You Before III Wicked Edition Pick the one show each Wicked cast member hasn't been in: 1. Eden Espinosa (former Elphaba)     A. Broadway: Brooklyn     B. Broadway: …

As Norma Desmond says, "It's a return." So far in 2025, here are five Broadway folk who are not making a comeback that we can't wait to see again! Friday 5: 5 2025 Broadway Returns Nicholas Barasch - Frede…

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, the upcoming Broadway revue of the great composer’s classics starring the previously announced Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga, will also feature cast members Ja…

  Holly O'Brien has appeared in Sarah in Hiroshi-Me, Me, Me! written by Natalie Menna and directed by Roger Simon, and Luella in Natalie Menna's, Occasionally Nothing directed by Ivette Dumeng, both which w…

Steppenwolf Theatre Company has officially opened its 49th season with a revival of Michael Frayn’s classic comedy Noises Off. Check out photos from inside opening night below!

Steppenwolf’s cast has put in the work and delivers a seriously zany show.

The Original Broadway Cast of Noises Off, starring Dorothy Loudon, Victor Garber, and Paxton Whitehead.

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: You might know her as Ivy Lynn, Doralee, or even Glinda, but this season she's all about Brooke Ashton. Broadway and television star Megan Hilty is currently starring in Roundabout…

Back by popular demand, The Keegan Theatre has revived its 2010 production of “Noises Off.” Commonly deemed, “the funniest farce ever written,” Michael Frayn’s “Noises Off” offers an exciting take…

The creators of “Inspired by True Events” wanted their new immersive theater piece to convey ominousness, not a haunted-house riff on “Noises Off.”

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Roundabout Theatre Company's Noises Off will begin previews on Thursday, December 17, 2015 and open officially on Thursday, January 14, 2016. This is a limited engagement through S…

Cole Porter’s hit musical starring the multi-award-winning Adrian Dunbar (Ridley, Line of Duty) and Broadway musical superstar and Tony Award winner Stephanie J. Block (Into The Woods, 9 to 5). From the prod…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Roundabout Theatre Company presents Steven Levenson's (The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin; Dear Evan Hansen) new play, If I Forget, directed by Daniel Sullivan. The cas…

On today’s episode, Matt Tamanini is in conversation with two of the stars from the current Bucks County Playhouse production of “Noises Off,” Roe Hartampf and Marilu Henner. The pair of Broadway stars ar…

By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Playwright Michael Frayn claims he got the inspiration to write Noises Off in 1970 while watching a comedy he had written unfold backstage. It occur…

The classic farce within a farce is onstage through May 5 The post Arvada Center shines with a wild & wacky ‘Noises Off’ appeared first on OnStage Colorado.

The upcoming season is the California company's first under Artistic Director Tarell Alvin McCraney.

Geffen Playhouse has announced the six productions that will make up the 2024/2025 season lineup. The productions will include Waiting for Godot, Noises Off, and more.

Cole Porter’s hit musical starring the multi-award-winning Adrian Dunbar (Ridley, Line of Duty) and Broadway musical superstar and Tony Award winner Stephanie J. Block (Into The Woods, 9 to 5). From the prod…

The season's programming begins in September at the Chicago theatre company.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company, under the leadership of Artistic Directors Glenn Davis and Audrey Francis and Executive Director Brooke Flanagan, has announced its 2024/25 Season, featuring several Chicago and wor…

Frank Rich, the New York Times drama critic for many years, wrote that Michael Frayn’s “Noises Off!” was the funniest play of his lifetime. I’m not sure I would go as far as Mr. Rich, but it is certainl…

The Houston company's 78th season includes 11 productions.

Noises Off 2002

The relationship between theatre and life has been pervaded the work of dramatists from Shakespeare to Maria Irene Fornes. The porosity of the relationship, the boundaries and fissures of the interaction permea…

Michael Blakemore, the only director in Tony Award history to win twice in one year, died Sunday, Dec. 10, following a short illness. He was 95. His death was announced by the London-based United Agents literar…

One of the great postwar theatre directors, Blakemore – who has died aged 95 – had a vast range and was a formidable writer It is sadly ironic that the death of Michael Blakemore, at the age of 95, coincide…

Three leading West End/Broadway theater lighting designers are using GLP’s new impression X5 Wash – all supplied by Paul Anderson at Sparks Theatrical Hire – to light current or upcoming shows. Paule Con…

Gielgud; Theatre Royal Haymarket; Royal Court, LondonAn all-star tribute to the acid genius of the late composer offers a terrific medley of hits, Michael Frayn’s clever farce also proves timeless, and seven …

Lindsay Posner directs the Michael Frayn comedy.

Delaware Theatre Company opens the season with a bang of eight doors in the ever-popular, ever-challenging backstage farce Noises Off. Gail Obenreder reviews.

“Peter Pan Goes Wrong,” now playing at L.A.’s Ahmanson Theatre, has its roots partly in silent-film slapstick, partly in British pantomime and partly in Python. But maybe the best shorthand way to describ…

Lindsay Posner directs the Michael Frayn comedy.

By Douglas Mayo Michael Frayn's Noises Off is returning to the West End with Lindsay Posner's 40th Anniversary production starring Felicity Kendall. This post Noises Off returns to the West End starring Felicit…

Lindsay Posner directs the Michael Frayn comedy.

Royal Exchange, ManchesterKimber Lee’s punky polemic circles through pastiches of Madama Butterfly, South Pacific and M*A*S*H, dissecting years of racist, imperialist and misogynistic tropes Imagine if Caryl …

Play about a onetime Broadway smash surely has Broadway in its sights Plays about the theatre are many and varied, from Gypsy and Noises Off to the numerous Shakespeare works that absorb theatrical performance …

The rollicking, deeply silly, remarkably funny production of the The Knight of the Burning Pestle currently at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, brought to us by Red Bull Theater and Fiasco Theater, has moments so s…

  (Photo by Caterina De Benedittis) Marco Simeoli is an actor, director and author, graduated from the Laboratorio di Roma by the great actor and director  Gigi Proietti. He also studied with Orazio Costa…

  (Photo by Francesca Laghezza) MARCO DE SIMONE (Salerno 1992) is a playwright, actor and director with a degree  in classical guitar from the Conservatory in Salerno and one in philosophy from the Univers…

'Cinderella,' 'The Laramie Project, 'Noises Off' 'Beautiful' and 'Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812' are featured

Second Stage Theater Company’s upcoming production of Larissa FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play has chosen its full cast and creative team. The cast will include Emmy Award nominee D’Arcy Carden as Alici…

Broadway’s upcoming production of Larissa FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play will star D’Arcy Carden (The Good Place), two-time Tony Award-winner Katie Finneran (Noises Off; Promises, Promises), Scott Fole…

The 40th anniversary revival of the Michael Frayn comedy is playing London's Phoenix Theatre.

By Douglas Mayo Katherine Kingsley has joined the 40th-anniversary production of Michael Frayn's Noises Off at London's Phoenix Theatre until 11 March 2023. This post Katherine Kingsley joins the West End cast …

Find out what is being said about the 40th anniversary production of Michael Frayn’s comedy Noises Off at London’s Phoenix Theatre with our review round up.

★★★★ NOISES OFF, PHOENIX THEATRE Michael Frayn's farce about a farce still jars the funny bone Sure it's overly familiar, but, 40 years on, the laughs keep coming There’s a chance – a slim one –…

Noises Off at the Phoenix Theatre is a fast-paced show that still demands an enormously skilled and precise technical performance from every member of its cast and Lindsay Posner’s team makes it look far easi…

Just a few new notes on this , as its completes its triumphant national tour with (amazingly) no stopping-injuries despite the heroically vigorous slapstick direction by Lindsay Posner (movement and fights, Rut…

The limited engagement of the Michael Frayn comedy plays the Phoenix.

(Vanessa Thorpe’s interview appeared in the Observer, 1/8; via Pam Green;  Photo:  ‘A workaday farce’: (from left) Felicity Kendal, Alexander Hanson and Tracy-Ann Oberman in Noises Off by Michael Frayn…

The 1982 play stills pulls in crowds from Broadway to Helsinki, and is now returning to the West End for a fifth time. ‘I just can’t understand it,’ says its creator The arrival of anything by post was …

A report on a staged reading of a new comedy that could become a theater-laughs-at-itself classic alongside 'Noises Off.'

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The limited engagement will play the Phoenix beginning in January.

By Douglas Mayo The 40th anniversary production of Michael Frayn's comedy Noises Off comes to the West End's Phoenix Theatre for 8 weeks only. This post Noises Off comes to Phoenix Theatre in January 2023 first…

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Felicity Kendal, Tracy-Ann Oberman and especially Joseph Millson are comic gifts in this 40th anniversary version that fits our times almost too well Well, here’s a surprise. Michael Frayn’s exquisite farc…

GLORIOUS AS EVER         Millions know it by now, but in case like my enthralled companions last night you aren’t among them,   grant me a moment or skip the the penultimate paragraph.   Noises Off  ha…