If you think Beatrice and Benedick go at it in Much Ado, wait until you see Amanda and Elyot. Both on honeymoons with new spouses, having violently divorced years before, Amanda and Elyot discover ...

It’s to the director’s credit that this production on the Guthrie’s expansive thrust stage feels as intimate as it does, Hubbard writes in his review.

Bay Area favorite KJ Sanchez reimagines and directs Noël Coward's hysterical classic tale of the tempestuous dance that is marriage. Reset to 1930s Argentina and featuring sensual tango dancing, ...

Swathed in silk, sipping champagne on a seaside balcony, the swanky denizens of Noël Coward’s universe ooze glitz and glamor. But what this revival of “Private Lives,” a stylish Coward comedy of bad ...

Revisiting a classic is always a balancing act. How much should remain untouched, and how much should be reshaped for the present moment? Bandwagon Arts takes a swing at that question with a ...

NEW YORK -- In the Tony-nominated London import "Private Lives," now at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, Lindsay Duncan stretches and purrs as Alan Rickman slinks cozily around her. Playing the divorced ...

That’s the question hovering over “Private Lives,” Noël Coward’s play that the Guthrie Theater is staging for the fourth time. Once the gold standard of sophisticated romantic comedy, the 1930 classic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Patricia Hodge and Nigel Havers: 'a couple of consummate pros'. It's only been about five months since the last London revival of ...

If you don’t know Noël Coward, you really should. He was an extraordinary showbiz phenom: playwright, composer and lyricist, movie star, boulevardier, singer and entertainer, nightclub raconteur, with ...

"It's like a perfect Netflix show" — that's an unlikely but fitting way to describe "Private Lives," Noël Coward's fast-paced comedy now onstage at the Alley Theatre. The show is a battle of the sexes ...

It’s a pity that this otherwise impressive new staging of Private Lives has a flaw that – as a Noël Coward character might put it – drives one quite to distraction. The Royal Exchange’s production ...

Staging one of the most famous titles from one of the foremost British playwrights of the 20th century requires, in Emily Heugatter's estimation, building a strong, clear metaphorical window. And then ...