Perhaps it’s self-evident, but the ability to communicate with the dead would appear to be, in a word, “challenging.” Having never personally attended a séance, the ingredients necessary to summon a ...

To begin with, I honestly have no idea what to make of the paradoxical version of Noel Coward’s classic, comedy of British manners, “Blithe Spirit” that I encountered on stage during its opening night ...

So there is something really fitting about casting her as the spiritual medium Madame Arcati in this revival of Noël Coward's 1941 mega-hit, Blithe Spirit, which comes to London from the Theatre Royal ...

But once a conversation with his wife, Ruth, debating the relative attractiveness of his deceased first wife, Elvira, cracks like a shot from Chekhov’s gun, trouble is as sure to come as the spirits ...

2009 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Director of a Play Michael Blakemore 2009 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Angela Lansbury 2009 Outer Critics Circle Awards Outstanding ...

A departed wife returns to haunt a neurotic British writer in Noël Coward’s classic comedy “Blithe Spirit.” The uproarious show runs at Ross Valley Players through Dec. 15. Coward is enjoying quite a ...

Noel Coward is one of the great observers of the world’s many subtleties, an enchanter with helpings of sly, sardonic wit. Take for example what his character Madame Arcati says in the splendiferous ...

Ghosts, séances, trances and plenty of spirit – the curtain has risen on a really ‘super’-natural production at Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn. Mad Cow Productions’ version of the Noel Coward comedy ...

What does a man do when he has two wives? One is alive. The other is dead. But now she seems very much alive and back in the picture. The picture on the fireplace mantel, that is. In Ephrata ...

Sometimes, I have to respectfully disagree. Not just with my colleague Pete Wood, who reviewed this production at its out-of-town debut in Bath this summer, but also with Richard Eyre, who is quoted ...