Noel Coward

First Nighter: Mark Nadler's Outstanding, Outrageous 'Crazy 1961'

David Finkle | Posted 03.20.2012

When the amazing Mark Nadler performs, I never fail to find myself thinking about the talent/luck equation. If x (talent) + y (luck) = Big Star, how are x and y measured?

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Kim Cattrall's Broadway Play Forced To Close Early

Posted 12.15.2011

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NEW YORK (Associated Press) -- The revival of Noel Coward's "Private Lives" is ending its run several weeks early. The play, which stars Kim Cattra...

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Stars of a Golden Age

George Heymont | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Cole Porter, The Artist, Bérénice Bejo, Star!, Film, Jean Dujardin, Daniel Massey, Gertrude Lawrence, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Michel Hazanavicius, Noel Coward, Malcolm MacDowell, John Goodman, Julie Andrews, Video, Arts News

In many ways, The Artist resembles A Star Is Born. One film star's career begins to crash and burn while another's takes wing against a background of tremendous churn in the film industry.

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Kim Cattrall in Noel Coward's Private Lives

Regina Weinreich | Posted 01.26.2012

Read More: Noel Coward, Caroline Lena Olsson, Anna Madeley, Simon Paisley Day, Kim Cattrall, Paul Gross, Sybil, Private Lives, Richard Eyre, Culture News

The beauty of Private Lives is Noel Coward's language, the hilarious barbs and banter, foreplay to out and out brawl.

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Stage Door: Private Lives

Fern Siegel | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Comedy, Noel Coward, Theater, Broadway, Kim Cattrall, Paul Gross, Entertainment, Richard Eyre, Sex and the City, Arts News

"It's extraordinary how potent cheap music can be," muses Amanda (Kim Cattrall) to Elyot (Paul Gross) her former husband. They meet, five years after ...

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Broadway Review: Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross Dazzle in a Sparkling Revival of Private Lives

Susan Dormady Eisenberg | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Noel Coward, Anna Madeley, Simon Paisley Day, Kim Cattrall, Paul Gross, Private Lives, Slings and Arrows, Broadway Plays, Arts News

Noel Coward's timeless comedy opened last week at the Music Box Theatre, and if you have the privilege of seeing Paul Gross's long-awaited Broadway debut, you'll enjoy a nuanced, charismatic star turn.

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Theater: Kim Cattrall Conquers Coward In "Private Lives"

Michael Giltz | Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: Noel Coward, Broadway, Kim Cattrall, Paul Gross, Comedy, Video, Entertainment News

Are you in the mood for a bit of bubbly? Champagne is always flowing in the world of Noel Coward and it's on tap at this modest revival of Private Lives.

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First Nighter: Andrea Marcovicci, Bebe Neuwirth Act Up in Cabaret

David Finkle | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: The Oak Room at the Algonquin, Feinstein's at Loews Regency, Jered Egan, Andrea Marcovicci, Bebe Neuwirth, Noel Coward, Private Lives," Tom Toce, Enid Futterman, Michael Cohen, Herman Hupfeld, Kurt Weill, Alan Jay Lerner, Tom Waits, Stephen Sondheim, Scott Cady, "Chicago, Shelly Markham, Entertainment News

Andrea Marcovicci and Bebe Neuwirth represent those who say that what's important for performers appearing in intimate rooms is not that the voice be considered first and foremost but that appreciation of a lyric is equally as important as vocal reproduction and projection.

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Highlights From Kim Cattrall's Comedy Of Manners On Broadway

The Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 01.04.2012

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In a role that makes you wonder what Samantha would say, Kim Cattrall takes to the stage to play a woman hopelessly in love with her ex-husband. Noel ...

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Kim Cattrall's Daring New Roles

Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Toronto, Samantha Jones, Kim Cattrall, Toronto International Film Festival, Private Lives, Kim Cattrall Sex and the City, Noel Coward, Sex and the City, Fifty News

Seasoned TV viewers may know her as Samantha Jones on "Sex and the City," but Canada's up-and-coming screen talent will soon know her as their guiding...

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Broadway's Fall Season Full of A-Listers, on Stage and Off

James Sims | Posted 11.20.2011

With the fall season approaching, straight plays are headed back to Times Square, and they've got a big list of stars in tow.

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First Nighter: Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet Gets Sweet, Bitter Bard College Revival

David Finkle | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Oscar Wilde, Christopher Akerlind, \'If Love Were All, Noel Coward, Bitter Sweet, 1929 Market Crash, Amanda Squittieri, The Richard B. Center for the Performing Arts at Bard, Sian Phillips, Adrian W. Jones, Sheridan Morley, W. S. Gilbert, Michael Gieleta, " Sarah Miller, Sir Arthur Sullivan, William Ferguson, James Bagwell, Arts News

We need to thank director-adapter Michael Gieleta for the revival of Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet at Bard College's Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. Correction: We need to thank him up to a point.

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Long-Lost Agatha Christie Telegram Found: What Did it Say?

Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Clive Payne, The Mousetrap, Video, Books News, Bbc, Noel Coward, Blithe Spirit, Agatha Christie Letter, Agatha Christie, Books News

Much information about writer Agatha Christie has been uncovered over the past few weeks, from her love of surfing to a riveting discovery made in Eng...

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Kim Cattrall Returns To Broadway

AP | Posted 08.30.2011

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NEW YORK — Kim Cattrall will soon be sipping cocktails on a Broadway stage. The "Sex and the City" is reprising her role in Noel Coward's "Priv...

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For Valentine's Day, Ten Movies Sure To Inspire Romance

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michel Legrand, Julie Delpy, Noel Coward, Best Movies by Farr, Ethan Hawke, Rod Steiger, Cary Grant, David Lean, Ingrid Bergman, Catherine Deneuve, Valentine's Day, Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Mazursky, Julian Sands, Love, Abbie Cornish, Gregory Peck, Jane Campion, James Ivory, Best Movies on DVD, Jill Clayburgh, Maggie Smith, Audrey Hepburn, Franco Zeffirelli, Paddy Chayefsky, William Wyler, Romance, Alan Bates, Helena Bonham Carter, Richard Linklater, Michael York, Ernest Borgnine, Merchant Ivory, Entertainment News

Those wanting to get closer to that more traditional and comforting take on the eternal "boy meets girl" predicament need only look back and revisit the great film romances of the past, movies that reflect those long-vanished ideals.

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Sondheim's Lyrics: Rhymes, Reasons and Religion

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oscar Hammerstein, Ira Gershwin, Stevie Wonder, Lorenz Hart, Lyrics, Irving Berlin, Noel Coward, Alan Jay Lerner, Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim, Carl Sigman, Great American Songbook, Saturday Night, Sunday in the Park With George, Company, West Side Story, Follies, Arts News

Though I grew up in an agnostic household, I was rarely in doubt that a spiritual force was afoot. Music, specifically what's come to be called "The Great American Songbook," was our religion.

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First Nighter: Jon Robin Baitz's "Other Desert Cities" is Red-Hot

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

In the living-room of the luxurious Palm Springs home where Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities takes place, a long, curved stone wall looms upst...

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High Spirits and Expectations at A Noise Within

Melinda Brocka | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Glendale, Great Expectations, A Noise Within, Blithe Spirit, Charles Dickens, Noel Coward, Theater, Los Angeles, Theater Review, Arts News

Both Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit and Charles Dickens' Great Expectations a Glendale's A Noise Within were hilarious, extremely well-acted and included creative use of props and wardrobe.

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"Brief (and Unmoving) Encounter"

Gwen Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Theater, Sexual Repression, Broadway, Noel Coward, Studio 54, David Lean, Brief Encounter, Arts News

A genuine thrill shot through me at the beginning of the staged Brief Encounter at Studio 54. But for all the projections of train and trestle, any real electricity is absent.

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Stage Door: Brief Encounter, The Pitmen Painters

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ashington Group, Noel Coward, Art, Theater, Broadway, Entertainment, Lee Hall, New York News

Now at Studio 54, Brief Encounter is an inspired multimedia production that brilliantly utilizes cinematic imagery to underscore larger truths.

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First-Nighter: Tammy Grimes Remains Unsinkable at The Metropolitan Room

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Bob Hope, The Metropolitan Room, Harry Warren, Noel Coward, Winter Garden, Cole Porter, Tammy Grimes, Harve Presnell, Truman Capote, Look After Lulu, Private Lives, Roddy McDowell, Entertainment News

It's important for me to keep things in perspective when writing about Tammy Grimes, who's just finishing up a week-long engagement at Manhattan's Metropolitan Room. After all, she's 76 now. And yet, and yet: She's still enchanting.

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Mademoiselle Chambon: Movie Review By Ed Koch

Ed Koch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mayor Ed Koch, Sandrine Kiberlain, Vincent Lindon, Trevor Howard, Mayor Koch, Noel Coward, French Film, Mayor at the Movies, New York Insider Productions, Brief Encounter, Celia Johnson, Jean-Marc Thibault, Entertainment News

Mademoiselle Chambon is just about as perfect as a film can be. In some fashion it reminded me of the 1945 British film, Brief Encounter, in terms of...

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Beyond "The Poseidon Adventure" : A Tribute To Ronald Neame

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean, The Poseidon Adventure, Toy Story 3, John Mills, Michael Powell, British Cinema, Noel Coward, Best Movies on DVD, Maggie Smith, Best Movies by Farr, Alec Guinness, Thirteen/WNET, Criterion Collection, Ronald Neame, Entertainment News

We are so collectively mired in the hyper-superficial, materialistic, flashy "moment of now" that we haven't paused to acknowledge a man who helped bring some of the finest British films ever made to the screen.

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First Nighter: Thoroughly Entertaining Sutton Foster

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Angela Lansbury, Annie, Paul McCartneyMichael Rafter, Little Women, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Stephen Schwartz, Wicked, Bebe Neuwirth, Patti LuPone, Noel Coward, "An Evening With Sutton Foster, Elaine Stritch, Christine Lavin, Kevin Kuhn, Stephen Sondheim, The Addams Family, Mark Waldrop, Bernadette Peters, Catherine Zeta Jones, John Lennon, " Cafe Carlyle, The Drowsy Chaperone, Feinstein's at Loews Regency, Young Frankenstein, Donna Murphy, Sutton Foster, Jeff Blumenthal, Shrek the Musical, New York News

If you had to pinpoint the leading leading-lady in musicals today, you'd have to say there's no contest: It's Sutton Foster.

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First Nighter: Polly Stenham's That Face Hard to Face

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Noel Coward, David Zinn, That Face, Polly Stenham, Broadway, Broadway Plays, Manhattan Theater Club Stage 1, Entertainment News

Handed Stenham's outlandish manuscript for That Face, helmer Sarah Benson and ensemble don't have much choice but to fling themselves into it body and soul -- mostly body.

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