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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 …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:25PMWednesday, August 16, 2023
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…
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Wednesday, July 5, 2023
Patricia Hodge and Nigel Havers will star in the classic Noël Coward comedy beginning next month.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AMBy 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…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:30AMMonday, June 12, 2023
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.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:49AMThursday, May 4, 2023
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 …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:15PMTuesday, April 25, 2023
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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 product…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMThursday, April 20, 2023
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…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:12AMMonday, April 17, 2023
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 …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, April 14, 2023
Rachael Stirling and Stephen Mangan play the sparring ex-lovers in a production that emphasises domestic violence
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:18AMThe 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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMDonmar 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMNEVER 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…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:06AMSunday, April 2, 2023
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMTuesday, March 21, 2023
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:17AMWednesday, March 15, 2023
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…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:36PMThursday, December 15, 2022
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…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:41PMFriday, November 4, 2022
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMTuesday, October 11, 2022
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.
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This reimagining of Noël Coward’s classic comedy of manners will have you rooting for scoundrels and cheering on charlatans.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, October 5, 2022
“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…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:10PMThe writer-actor's works include Present Laughter, Private Lives, and Blithe Spirit.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AMMonday, July 11, 2022
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 …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, June 5, 2022
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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMMonday, May 23, 2022
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03PMWednesday, April 20, 2022
Season's other shows include "Private Lives," "Putting It Together" and annual production of "A Christmas Carol."
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:42PMThursday, February 24, 2022
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 i…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:18PMTuesday, February 15, 2022
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 Misanth…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:43AMWednesday, November 17, 2021
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.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, November 15, 2021
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.
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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 i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:07PMTuesday, September 7, 2021
Plus, Michael Urie will host a celebration of Broadway and New York City at Bloomingdale's.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:19PMFriday, June 4, 2021
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, an…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:47PMThursday, April 8, 2021
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 othe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03PMTuesday, March 23, 2021
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 doo…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:24PMSunday, February 7, 2021
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 & E…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM