Just announced, The Acting Company will continue its 2016 John McDonald Salon Series with a reading of Noel Coward's charming comedy PRESENT LAUGHTER on Monday, February 22nd at 7 PM at the …
Oscar winner Kevin Kline will co-direct and star opposite Tony winner Nina Arianda in a one-night-only staging of Noel Coward's Present Laughter.
The heaviest lifting always rests on Garber's shoulders, and the actor is more than up to bearing the weight - well, such as it is.
One of the reasons "Present Laughter" works so well is Coward's shrewd, sure sense of self-mockery, a quality Garber captures with ease.
This fourth Broadway revival of the 1939 play originated at Boston's Huntington Theater Company in 2007, during Martin's tenure there as artistic director, and frankly, it could have gained …
Noël Coward's comic warhorse is hyped and coarsened, as if director Nicholas Martin doesn't trust American audiences to get Coward's very English humor.
The revival of Noël Coward's "Present Laughter," which opened Thursday night at the American Airlines Theatre, is like a glass of champagne that's been sitting too long: Except for a few …
Unless a comedy by Noel Coward is played with perfect precision, it tends to have the taste of champagne that has lost its fizz. Such is the case with the Roundabout's Broadway revival of "P…
The new Broadway revival of "Present Laughter," Noel Coward's 1939 farce about an egomanaical matinee idol in the midst of a midlife crisis, feels strangely deflated and stale. It's as if so…
A lower-wattage Victor Garber insufficiently shines as Noel Coward character