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The young Noël Coward was often disparaged as a boy who was clever and knew it. You have to admire his response: “How do they think I could be clever and not know it?” The logic and tone are ...
The smash-hit exhibition Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward will close on August 18 after a five-month, twice-extended run. The show focuses on Coward as playwright, composer, director, stage ...
It is fashionable to sneer at Coward’s renderings of lower middle-class speech in kitchen-sink dramas such as Fumed Oak or This Happy Breed (“She didn’t pass on, pass over or pass out: she ...
The York Theatre Company, in association with the Noël Coward Foundation, will present I Like America, a special ONE-NIGHT-ONLY concert celebrating 125 years of Noël Coward and in particular his ...
Flash-forward 36 years, and Aitken is now directing Coward, too: a production of “Private Lives” at the Huntington Theatre Company, which coincides with “Star Quality: The World of Noël ...
He took God’s gift and became Noël Coward, writer, actor, musician and definer of British urbanity and erudition. By the time he was 30, they say Coward was biggest star in world entertainment.
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward: The Museum of Performance & Design presents a major retrospective exhibition of Coward's life and work, featuring seldom-seen photographs and film ...
The plays have hardly languished neglected - after a below-par 1980s West End revival of three, Sheridan Morley's Noël and Gertie, incorporating extracts from most of the nine, became a London ...
What's a decade between chums? Noël Coward 's centenary was duly observed elsewhere, particularly in Britain, in 1999, but created scarcely a ripple in the Bay Area. Ten years later, the region ...
We shouldn’t need an excuse to celebrate the genius of Noël Coward but the 50th anniversary of his death has triggered a string of stage revivals, a major new biography and the documentary Mad ...