Purpose by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

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 fam…

Noël Coward Comedy Private Lives Will Come to Broadway for the 2026-27 Season by Broadway.com

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 Jef…

Noël Coward comedy ‘Private Lives’ will come to Broadway for the 2026-27 season by Broadway.com

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

Noël Coward's Private Lives Will Get a Broadway Revival in 2026 by Logan Culwell-Block

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

PRIVATE LIVES by Noël Coward is Coming to Broadway in 2026-2027

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.

Broadway Revival Of Noël Coward’s ‘Private Lives’ Set For 2026-2027 Season by Greg Evans

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 thea…

Sad New: Maggie Smith dead at 89 by Frank Rizzo

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 Mas…

“Private Lives”  Relives 1930 Comic Battles between Sexes—at ACT   by K. Marguerite Caronna

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 o…

Review: Punching and tearing are aphrodisiacs in ACT’s ‘Private Lives’ by Lily Janiak

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

Accolade, Windsor Theatre Royal review - orgy-loving knight makes for topical pre-election drama by Ismene Brown

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

Kim Cattrall, Paul Gross to Star in Private Lives at Broadway’s Music Box

Broadway’s Private Lives to Conclude Run on December 31

Private Lives, Ambassador's Theatre review - classy revival lacking physical excess by Heather Neill

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 …

Bradley Cooper's MAESTRO to Screen at the New York Film Festival For North American Premiere in October

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 fol…

Philip Nolen, Jennifer Christa Palmer to Star in Mad Cow’s Private Lives

Theatre Royal Bath's Private Lives Is West End Bound by Logan Culwell-Block

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

Private Lives starring Nigel Havers and Patricia Hodge announces West End transfer by Douglas Mayo

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…

Theater Review: “Private Lives” — Time for Retirement? by David Greenham

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 VORTEX Chichester Festival Theatre by Libby Purves and Friends

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 …

Private Lives by Steven Morris

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The week in theatre: Dancing at Lughnasa; Private Lives – review by Susannah Clapp

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 product…

Private Lives, Donmar Warehouse review - Coward revival cuts to the quick by Matt Wolf

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 startli…

‘The physical fighting feels like an odd choice’: PRIVATE LIVES – Donmar Warehouse by Rev Stan

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 …

Private Lives review: Dark, uptight Coward revival isn’t as revelatory as it thinks by Jessie Thompson

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

‘The approach unbalances the play entirely’: PRIVATE LIVES – Donmar Warehouse by Maryam Philpott

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 abou…

Private Lives review – Coward’s comedy becomes a stark theatre of cruelty by Kate Wyver

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, abusiv…

PRIVATE LIVES Donmar, WC2 by Libby Purves and Friends

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 i…

Rachael Stirling: ‘Promise me you’ll take out half the swearing?’

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…

Noël Coward was not just an amiable jester but a scathing social satirist | Michael Billington by Michael Billington

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 reapp…

Jennifer Simard and Adam Godley to Join Cast of Once Upon a One More Time by Caitlin Hornik

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 Godl…

Blogspot Update December 2022 by Elyse Sommer. by Elyse Sommer

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 b…

James Roose-Evans obituary by Michael Coveney

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 9…

Review: Raven Theatre’s revival of ‘Private Lives’ is stylish but lacks that romantic fizz by Emily McClanathan

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.

Sugar and Schadenfreude: A Review of Private Lives at Raven Theatre by Tristan Bruns

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

Sexy screwball comedy with a twist by Albert Williams

“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 h…

A Noël Coward Documentary Is in the Works by Logan Culwell-Block

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

‘Eminently watchable, but I wasn’t dazzled’: THE DANCE OF DEATH – Arcola Theatre by John Chapman

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 …

The Dance of Death review – gender-swapping adaptation neuters Strindberg by Clare Brennan

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 …

In capturing the changing face of Britain, playwrights explain us to ourselves | Michael Billington by Michael Billington

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 thea…

Repertory Theatre of St. Louis 2022-23 mainstage season opens with 'House of Joy' by Calvin Wilson St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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