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Noël Coward - Audio Biography

Coward Audio

BBC Audio have released Sheridan Morley's Audio biography of Noël Coward.Web...


Coward The Poet

A BBC Radio 4 programme in August 2008 looked at Cowards' verse.


Houston Grand Opera Brief Encounter

An Opera in Two Acts Music by André Previn Libretto by John Caird
Andre Previn

Houston Grand Opera presents the world premiere of André Previn’s Brief Encounter, based on David Lean’s classic 1945 film adaptation of a play by Noël Coward entitled Still Life
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The Letters of
Noël Coward

The UK paperback of 'The Letters of Noël Coward' is out now.

The Letters of Noël Coward

 

‘A uniquely charming and enticing journey through a remarkable life.
Coward's own record is made all the more delightful by the wise and helpful interpolations of Barry Day, the soundest authority on the Master that there is.’
Stephen Fry


Music - Sheet Music -Recordings
The New Noël Coward Music website is under development in the meantime visit the Noël Coward Society where the authoritative Noël Coward Music Index can be found. It lists every known song, lyric and music by Coward.
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Media Rack

A rack of Web links to media stories and articles featuring Noel Coward.
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Hampstead Theatre 50th marked with Private Lives

Noël Copward and Gertrude LawrenceNorth London’s Hampstead Theatre marks its 50th anniversary in 2009 with a new production of Private Lives, the 1929 comedy by Noel Coward that famously launched Hampstead’s fortunes in 1962. In 1962, Jasmes Roose-Evans the founder and first artistic director, presented a celebrated production of Private Lives, Noel Coward’s comedy about warring exes Elyot and Amanda, which became the theatre’s first West End transfer and resulted in what Coward himself, then in his 60s and out of fashion, referred to as “Dad’s renaissance”. Lucy Bailey directs the new production, which will run from 22 January to 28 February 2009, with a cast including Claire Price (currently in The White Devil) as Amanda and Jasper Britton (currently in Oedipus at the National) as Elyot.
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Film of Easy Virtue on UK Release

Interview with Colin Firth about Easy Virtue. Web...

Easy Virtue

EASY VIRTUE stars American actress Jessica Biel playing Larita, the avant-garde young woman who takes the Whittaker family by storm; Colin Firth as the war-weary head of the household Mr Whittaker; Kristin Scott Thomas as the stoic but neurotic wife Mrs Whittaker, and Ben Barnes as Larita’s new husband John Whittaker. Stephen Elliot directs this revisit to the classic Noël Coward 1925 drama. The Mirror "Deliciously funny! 4 stars." Baz Bamigboye The Daily Mail "...a glorious delight."
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Blithe Spirit on Broadway

A Broadway revival of Blithe Spirit begins on February 26, 2009, and opens in March at the Shubert Theatre. Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel and Steve Traxler will produce the revival of Blithe Spirit, that will star Angela Lansbury, Christine Ebersole, Rupert Everett, Simon Jones and Jayne Atkinson. The comedy was first presented in the US at the Morosco Theater in 1941.

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Brief Encounter goes on 2009 UK Tour

The Kneehigh production of Brief Encounter that has enjoyed such great success at The Cinema in the Haymarket in London's West End is to go on a UK tour. The company will be visiting the major cities from February 2009 as well as their home base in Cornwall - presenting their own stage adaptation of Coward's classic film directed by David Lean. See What's On? for more...


Shaw Festival offers all 10 plays in Tonight at 8:30

Ontario’s Shaw Festival will present all 10 plays that make up Noel Coward’s “Tonight at 8:30” series, including the rarely produced “Star Chamber.” It will mark the second time in the US that all of the plays have been produced by a professional company since their London debut at the Phoenix Theater in the 1935-36 season. The Antaeus company in California presented the plays in February and March 2008.

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Media Pack
Our media pack contains all of the basic information you need to support professional productions, programme and sleeve notes and written copy for all aspects of media activity. It also provides an accessible study kit for 16+ students and those wishing to find out more about The Master.
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The Theatre Timeline provides a summary of all Coward's performed works with dates of their original production, major revivals and adaptations.
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Licensing and copyright- If you are planning on using any material drawn from Coward's work then you need to ensure that you are meeting all of the copyright requirements and that any activity is properly licensed. See our guidance on performance of plays, musicals, compilations and songs and the recording of them.
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NEWS

High Spirits
42nd Street Moon, San Francisc. Web...
Mar 19 - Apri 5, 2009

PRIVATE LIVES
California Shakespeare Theater.Web... Directed by Mark Rucker Jul 8–Aug 2, 2009

York Theatre Co. NYC
Dec 2 Barry Day and Tony Walton's adaptation of Coversation Piece.
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Blithe Spirit

Jayne Atkinson

Actress Jayne Atkinson is to play Ruth in Blithe Spirit in the Broadway revival.
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Hampstead Theatre 50th marked with Private Lives

North London’s Hampstead Theatre marks its 50th anniversary in 2009 with Private Lives

Ten Chimneys
Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Programme

The Ten Chimneys Foundation has launched its first Fellowship Programme with master classes led by Lynn Redgrave.
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Waiting in the Wings

Bettty Garrett leads cast at Theatre West Los Angeles. Find out more...

Simon Green Sings Coward at Christmas: A Cabaret for Noël

at 59E59 in New York DEC 14 - JAN 4

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THEATRE

Blithe Spirit

Angela Lansbury, Rupert Everett and Christine Ebershol is to play in Blithe Spirit on Broadway.
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Hay Fever

Queen's Theatre, HornchurchWeb...

Brief Encounter
The Cinema, Haymarket - run extended to Nov 16 followed by UK tour
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NEW EXHIBITION!

STAR QUALITY - The World of Noel Coward

A major retrospective exhibition in San Francisco's Museum of Performance & Design. April 17 to August 29, 2009 More...


NEW MEDIA!

Easy Virtue
Released in November.
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Decca have released a sound track CD for Easy Virtue.

 


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