Blithe Spirit News

Majesta Adams says drama is the least represented of the four arts at The Society of the Four Arts.

The drawing room comedy of manners 'Easy Virtue' is a strange mess but it has an impressive pedigree.

Running into a former spouse can certainly be tricky, but especially so if they're dead.

Published: Monday, June 15, 2009 at 3:54 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, June 15, 2009 at 3:54 p.m. "Blithe Spirit'' is a piece of fluff built around some titanium clockwork that Nol Coward soldered together over just a few days in 1941, when he thought London needed cheering up.

I can easily remember my long ago, teenage trip to Broadway to see "Bell. Book and Candle" with Rex Harrison and his then wife Lilli Palmer.

How reassuring to know that one can venture out into the world and yet still return to the security and familiarity of home.

The American Theatre Winga s 63rd Annual Antoinette Perry a oeTonya Awards 2009 were held at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday.

There is something stubbornly old-fashioned about the Tony Awards, the 63rd edition of which was broadcast Sunday night over CBS.

"Billy Elliot" has won the Tony as Broadway's best musical. The show about a British coal miner's son who dreams to dance was the biggest musical hit of the season.

The actress is so close to me that I could literally grab her arm. Another actor approaches behind me, startling me when he speaks.

The River Hill High School Theatre Arts Department will stage a production of Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit." Written and first produced in 1941, "Blithe Spirit" is a droll comedy concerning socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who is haunted by the ghost of his first wife, Elvira, following a seance held by the eccentric medium and ...

Fonda. Gandolfini. Sarandon. Radcliffe. Lansbury. Screen favorites stepped into the footlights of Broadway in 2008-09. A good 45 minutes after the curtain falls on Blithe Spirit at the Shubert Theatre, another show commences in Shubert Alley.

THE success of the Broadway revival of "Blithe Spirit," led by the incomparable Angela Lansbury , shows that Noel Coward's wit and style never go out of fashion.

Florida Studio Theatre is preparing a dazzling celebration of Noel Coward music with its first show of the summer season - "A Marvelous Party! The Noel Coward Celebration." The revue opens 8 p.m. Wednesday and continues with various times through June 26.

The play: Blithe Spirit Where: Pull-Tight Theatre, 112 Second Ave. S., Franklin When: Opens today and runs through June 13, with performances at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and 2:30 p.m. Sundays.

But one thing he doesn't do is imitate Noel Coward -- so easy to caricature with his sophistication, crisp diction and clever repartee, and an icon for several generations of gay men.

May 27, 2009 Tony winners 1969: Angela Lansbury joins James Earl Jones Julie Harris and Jerry Orbach If Angela Lansbury takes home a Tony Award on June 7 for her performance as Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit - and she's a huuuge favorite to do just that - she will equal Julie Harris' record five wins.

Stephan Elliott's Easy Virtue may be more Andre than Dom Perignon, but it still manages to deliver a pleasurable two hours.

When Charles the novelist brings Madame Arcati into his home for a s ance, all he wants is material for his next piece of fiction.

Vincent In Brixton , Nicholas Wright's award-winning play about Van Gogh's spell in London as an apprentice art dealer, comes to Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre next week.