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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 …
Patricia Hodge and Nigel Havers will star in the classic Noël Coward comedy beginning next month.
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
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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.
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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 production …
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 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 Elyot …
Rachael Stirling and Stephen Mangan play the sparring ex-lovers in a production that emphasises domestic violence
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 about mi…
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…
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…
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.
This reimagining of Noël Coward's classic comedy of manners will have you rooting for scoundrels and cheering on charlatans.
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.
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…
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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 other …
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…
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 & Ely…
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A newly discovered album contains intimate, joyful glimpses of the playwright drinking, partying and holidaying with his famous friends and lovers. The result is an astonishing insight into …
Get your holiday theater fix this season, with the streaming premiere of Peter Rothestein's All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 on December 15th. Cozy up with other holiday favorites, i…