Noël Coward
| Born | December 16, 1899 |
| Hometown | Teddington, England |
| Height | 6'0" (1.83m) |
| Partner | Graham Payn |
| Parents | Arthur Sabin Coward, Violet Agnes Veitch |
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Brief Encounter, Cunard Queen Anne: Cruise-line entertainment has never been this classy
- Noël Coward spent a good deal of time travelling by sea, often scribbling as he sailed. He wrote much of the operetta Bitter Sweet (1929) on ocean liners, and set his 1961 musical comedy – Sail Away – on one. Indeed, he first clapped smitten eyes on New York in 1921 after travelling on the beautiful Cunard liner, the Aquitania – which set sail from Southampton.
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Oscar voters have long memories: ‘Casablanca’ wins Best Picture 16 months after its premiere
The Academy Awards grew up at the 16th annual ceremony March 2, 1944. Since the first Oscar ceremony at the Hollywood Roosevelt’s Blossom Room in 1929, the Academy Awards were small banquet ceremonies for La La Land movers and shakers. But that all changed 80 years ago. World War II was in its third year …
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Why we’ve got 1930s theatre all wrong
Unveiled against the backdrop of Hitler’s manoeuvres on the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, the opening night of Dodie Smith’s Dear Octopus at the Queen’s Theatre on September 14, 1938 was unlike almost any other West End opening before or since.
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Brief Encounter: a heart-breaking production that honours Coward’s original while speaking to our own times
Noël Coward’s Brief Encounter, a quintessential theatrical evergreen, is rarely off the British stage. With its roots in a one-act drama (titled Still Life) that premiered in 1936, it was popularised by David Lean’s famous film (for which Coward wrote the screenplay) in 1945.
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'Blythe Spirit' opens brings ghostly fun to Encore Theatre in Tulare
One of the first things you’ll notice—besides the beautiful set and comic timing—is the very British accents in this play.
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TWO to bring laughs, scares with 'Blithe Spirit'
Oct. 10—Theatre Workshop of Owensboro will continue to celebrate its 60th season of entertaining the community with its production of the Noël Coward comedic play "Blithe Spirit" starting this week at the Trinity Centre. The show will kick off with a dinner preview at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 12, followed by performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13, and Saturday, Oct. 14, with a matinee at 2 ...
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Private Lives review: a 'witty' revival of Noël Coward's classic comedy
Patricia Hodge and Nigel Havers play the warring exes in this 'delicious retro treat'
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Focus on the familiar
Sep. 14—SOAP LAKE — The Masquers Theater in Soap Lake will be premiering Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit this weekend. The show will run through Oct. 1 every Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and every Sunday at 2 p.m., according to the theater's website. "Blithe Spirit" marks the opening of the Masquers' new theater season, said the play's director, Marla Allsopp, who is also on the Masquers ...
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Private Lives: Nigel Havers and Patricia Hodge give Noel Coward a wintry poignancy
This is the second Private Lives I’ve seen in this 50th anniversary year of Noël Coward’s death, and the two couldn’t be more different. A few months after the Donmar Warehouse turned Coward’s comedy into a domestic-violence horror, its close neighbour, the beautifully refurbished Ambassadors Theatre, hosts a fizzing revival (first seen on tour in 2021) that instead recontextualises the play through its unusual casting.
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'Present Laughter' opens Sept. 8 at Bemidji Community Theater
Sep. 5—BEMIDJI — On stage and off, Eric Nelson brings hilarity to the Bemidji Community Theater as the company prepares for its season kickoff this week. Nelson plays the part of Garry Essendine, a self-obsessed light comedy actor, in the Noël Coward comedy "Present Laughter," which opens Friday at the BCT Performing Arts Center, 316 Beltrami Ave. NW. "Eric is so funny," said Vicki Stenerson, ...
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Nigel Havers interview: ‘Sadiq Khan is the worst thing that could happen to London’
Nigel Havers picks up two black plastic chairs and plonks them in a shabby alley outside a church hall in Pimlico where he’s rehearsing Private Lives with Patricia Hodge. The only other option for the interview is a tiny kitchen lobby near the toilets. “I’ve known worse,” he says, affably, snapping open a can of Diet Coke. If we’d been offered the coal cellar, he probably wouldn’t have minded.
