Present Laughter, starring Academy Award and two-time Tony Award winner Kevin Kline in his triumphant return to Broadway, plays at the St. James Theatre 246 West 44th Street. Directed by Ton…
Present Laughter, starring Academy Award and two-time Tony Award winnerKevin Klinein his triumphant return to Broadway, plays at the St. James Theatre 246 West 44th Street. Directed by Tony …
The comedy returns to Broadway with a cast that also includes Kate Burton and Kristine Nielsen.
The Noël Coward comedy plays the St. James Theatre.
Kevin Kline as Noel Coward's self-absorbed Garry Essendine and a topnotch cast once again prove there's nothing insignificant about wit and laughter in an age weighed down by significantly w…
In the six decades since "Present Laughter" debuted on Broadway in 1947, Noël Coward's farce has been revived five times including the new production starring Oscar winner Kevin …
Noel Coward was 39 years old when he played the lead role of Garry Essendine, a famous actor fearing for the future of his career as he enters middle age, in the premiere production of his r…
Check out Broadway Style Guide's coverage of the starry evening at the St. James Theatre.
At the risk of joining the critics crew who toss out the adjective "magnificent" far too frequently, I'm going to say that
A bouncy revival of a Noël Coward classic re-establishes the Tony-winning Mr. Kline as one of the great physical comedians.
by Michael Bracken Is it the time or the timing? It's both, of course, but I have to think brisker pacing in the current revival of Noël Coward's Present Laugh…
“I will not play a light French comedy to an auditorium that looks like a Gothic edition of Wembley Stadium,” protests actor
Noël Coward described his 1939 romp Present Laughter as "a series of semiautobiographical pyrotechnics" " merely "semi," presumably, because the main character, Garry Essendine, though …
Kevin Kline is back on Broadway for the first time in a decade.
Kevin Kline is back on Broadway for the first time in a decade.
Kevin Kline has always struck me as a character actor trapped in a leading man's body -- too quirky and complicated to be satisfied as a romantic hero, but too great looking to simply play t…
False starts and outmoded techniques make this latest iteration of Noël Coward's creation seem dated, leaving its star with too much heavy liftingSt James Theater, New YorkDressing gown e…
Whatever would we do without Kevin Kline? In an age of lesser stars, he’s a bona fide matinee idol of the ideal age and with the urbane sensibility to do justice to sophisticated scrib…
Vintage Noel Coward, served well-done.
After a decade's absence from Broadway, Kevin Kline returns as the aging matinee idol in Present Laughter. Kline, the swashbuckler of Pirates of Penzance and the hunk of On The Twentieth…
When you need gold-plated ham, who better to turn to than Kevin Kline?
Kevin Kline returns to Broadway after almost 10 years' absence, playing the self-regarding peacock in Noel Coward's 1939 comedic souffle, also featuring Kate Burton and Cobie Smulders. read …
Kevin Kline has loomed, larger than life, over Broadway for more than four decades: as the preening, prat-falling Pirate King opposite Linda Ronstadt in The Pirates of Penzance; the probosco…
Present Laughter, starring Academy Awardand two-time Tony AwardwinnerKevin Klinein his triumphant return to Broadway, opens tonight atthe St. James Theatre 246 West 44th Street. Directed by …
After a decade's absence from Broadway, Kevin Kline returns as the aging matinee idol in Present Laughter. Kline, the swashbuckler of Pirates of Penzance and the hunk of On The Twentieth Cen…