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 ...

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 ...

There was a time when it seemed like Noel Coward’s 1940s comedy “Blithe Spirit” was a mainstay on the community-theater docket. But it has been years since I’ve seen a production, so when the ...

Dear Readers, I do love a good farce. That rollicking romp with oodles of physical comedy and improbable situations. Combine that with a good comedy of manners and it’s gold. What that spells is Noël ...

“You’ve been commissioned to write a 90-page screenplay, not ‘War and Peace.'” With these airy words, in the opening minutes of “Blithe Spirit,” exasperated trophy wife Ruth (Isla Fisher) admonishes ...

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 ...

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 ...

The imperishable spirit of Margaret Rutherford still haunts the role of eccentric medium Madame Arcati in Thea Sharrock’s delightful revival of Coward’s comic fantasy. Indeed, there are times when ...

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