To begin with, I honestly have no idea what to make of the paradoxical version of Noel Coward’s classic, comedy of British manners, “Blithe Spirit” that I encountered on stage during its opening night ...

If Judi Dench was looking for a way to earn one more Oscar nomination in case she gets snubbed for Cats, she may have just found one. Dench has been cast in Blithe Spirit, an adaptation of the 1941 ...

Blithe Spirit opened in 1941 when it played for over 2,000 performances and hugely raised wartime spirits. It has been one of the world's favourite comedies ever since. Its razor-sharp wit and ...

The Four County Players offer a delightful respite from the troubles and stresses of everyday life with their production of Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit, which premiered on the mainstage in ...

Gazing into a crystal ball for the Wilkes University production of ‘Blithe Spirit’ are from left Caleb Flannery as Charles, Rachel Kern as Madame Arcati the medium and Kasey Karoll as Charles’ second ...

Noel Coward is one of the great observers of the world’s many subtleties, an enchanter with helpings of sly, sardonic wit. Take for example what his character Madame Arcati says in the splendiferous ...

In front from left, Peter Larson, Emily Jeziorski, and Teal Weatherly are joined by in back from left, Ayri Brady, Adrienne Reuss, Jeremy Jeziorski, and Christine Panebianco rehearsing a scene from ...

The plot concerns Home Counties novelist Charles Condomine, who lives with his second wife Ruth. In the course of his researches for a novel, he invites the spiritualist Madame Arcati, a thoroughly ...

Fans of the series “Downton Abbey” will long remember the final episode of Season 3. The character Matthew Crawley, who was the show’s male romantic lead, heir to the title of the Earl of Grantham, ...

The Noel Coward/David Lean combination which turned out such dramas as Brief Encounter and This Happy Breed sets its sights on the viewer's funny bone with Blithe Spirit. Rex Harrison plays a novelist ...

A theatre-lovers’ favourite ever since it was written, Blithe Spirit is a tug-of-love comedy with a difference: one of the lovers is a ghost. Novelist Charles, hoping to gather material for his next ...