Noël Coward in New York

Reviews, Press and Media

For more information on the exhibition and additional images and resources visit the NYPL's own website on Noël Coward at the NYPL

Latest Reviews in the media:

Noël Coward’s timeless ‘Lives’

The playwright’s the thing in a revival at Huntington Theatre and exhibit in New York.

The Boston Globe

The Noël Coward beat: At Lincoln Center library, his public lives come to life

At Lincoln Center’s Library for the Performing Arts, the vagaries of time, of shifting critical reputation, the many hues of theatrical “truth,” all hover around Star Quality, the Library’s new Noël Coward exhibition. Coward’s singular theatrical world—acerbic, irreverent, and yet gossamer—is brought memorably to life.

www.capitalnewyork.com

Mad About NYPL'S "The World of Noël Coward"

The best new show in town right now is at Lincoln Center. But I’m not talking about the mighty War Horse, which even after a year is still packing them in at the Vivian Beaumont, or even 4000 Miles, the endearing Amy Herzog play now in previews at the Mitzi Newhouse.

No, the show I’m talking about is next door to the theater, in the first-floor gallery space in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, where the new exhibition “Star Quality: the World of Noël Coward” is running through Aug. 18.

Broadway & Me

Design for Living Is First in NYC Noël Coward Series; Steve Ross, Keith Merrill, Amy Rutberg, Kevin Collins Perform. By Kenneth Jones
22 Feb 2012

Playbill

2012: The Year of Noël Coward in New York - March 12–August 18
This citywide festival will celebrate Noël Coward's close relationship with New York, anchored by a major exhibition at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts that focuses on Coward's rich career in theater, music, stage and screen. Other participating organizations include Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Mabel Mercer Foundation, the Light Opera of New York and The Drama Bookshop.

nycgo.com

"The great Noël Coward is coming back to New York. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and The Noël Coward Foundation will open the multimedia exhibition Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward on March 12. The exhibition is opening in conjunction to a city-wide festival celebrating the life and career of Noël Coward."

Broadway World

"Jayne Atkinson, Jim Dale, Rosemary Harris, Steve Ross to Take Part in Noël Coward - New York Festival 2012 Events. . .

Many of the events in the Festival will be offered at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, including Noël Coward: Off the Record (April 9), a performance by Steve Ross and guest artists; a cabaret evening of Coward's songs presented by the Mabel Mercer Foundation (May 17); Mad About the Boy: The First Noël (June 4), a lecture by Alan Pally about the library's ongoing efforts to highlight and explore Coward's work; and Talking Of Noël Coward (June 11), a panel discussion that will be moderated by Geoffrey Johnson, who was Coward's American representative for his last ten years."

Theatermania

Previous announcements and previews

New York Times • Broadway World • Theatermania

Press Contacts:

The New York Public Library Jonathan Pace Jonathan_Pace@nypl.org (212) 592-7710

Noël Coward Foundation( US) Adrian Bryan-Brown Boneau/Bryan-Brown

email: abrown@bbbway.com • Tel: (212) 575-3030

STAR QUALITY: The World of Noël Coward is presented by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the Noël Coward Foundation, in collaboration with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Museum of Performance & Design, San Francisco.

Promotional video and further information about the exhibition

Press Release 20 December 2011 (5.07mb) NEW!

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