Private Lives
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125 Years and Counting...to it." After completing work on "Sex and the City 2" in January, Cattrall will star in a new London production of Noel Coward's "Private Lives." The 1950s was a period of significant transition for the academy. Charles Jehlinger, who... In this article: Don Rickles, American Academy of Dramatic Arts, American Academy, New York City, and Paul Rudd |
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Daily Mail | 4 days ago
Arts Council paid expert to teach two BLIND actors to swordfight
...of what it was like to hold weapons. We had a go at the comic domestic scuffle between the characters Amanda and Elyot in Noel Coward's Private Lives. We rehearsed it several times, then, at the end of the week, arranged a few chairs at one...
In this article: Noel Coward, Unemployment, Macbeth, Delusion, and Cocaine
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Playbill.com | 7 days ago
Shubert Organization, Zollo and Cole Partner to Develop Shows
...At Liberty and both parts Broadway's Tony-winning Angels in America. Zollo was a producer of the Tony Award-winning 2002 production of Private Lives and both parts of Angels in America, among other Tony-nominated productions. Next week,...
In this article: The Shubert Organization, Frederick M. Zollo, Angels in America, Broadway, and Susan Boyle
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Yahoo! News | November 17, 2009
Edward Woodward, British Stage Actor and Star of The Equalizer, Dies at 79 (Playbill)
...Juliet and Hamlet (both 1858), Two Cities (1968), The White Devil and Cyrano de Bergerac (both 1971), The Wolf (1973), On Approval (1976), Private Lives (1980), Richard III (1982), and The Dead Secret (1992). A heavy smoker, Mr. Woodward...
In this article: Edward Woodward, The Equalizer, Callan, London, Noel Coward, Cornwall, and Romeo and Juliet
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The Australian | November 17, 2009
Screen's legendary hard man falls silent
...was judged to have some physical resemblance to Morant and, as he liked Australia (he had previously toured the continent in Noel Coward's Private Lives), he was keen to return here. The production was low budget, even by the standards...
In this article: Breaker Morant, The Wicker Man, James Bond, Michele Dotrice, Australia, and London
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Playbill.com | November 16, 2009
Writers' Theatre in IL Toasts a Master in Oh Coward! Nov. 17
...delights, Oh Coward! celebrates one of the theatre's greatest entertainers - Noel Coward - who gave us the beloved works Blithe Spirit, Private Lives and Hay Fever. His effervescent music and charming quips combine for an unforgettable evening...
In this article: Noel Coward, Hay Fever, Blithe Spirit, and The Weinstein Company
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Playbill.com | November 12, 2009
Lisa Dillon and Simon Paisley Day Complete West End Casting for Private Lives
...Paisley Day have joined the previously-announced Kim Cattrall and Matthew Macfadyen in Richard Eyre's new production of Noel Coward's Private Lives. Advertisement The production begins at the Vaudeville Theatre Feb. 24, 2010, prior to...
In this article: Lisa Dillon, Desdemona, Matthew Macfadyen, Kim Cattrall, London, and Royal Shakespeare Company
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Independent.co.uk - Books | November 11, 2009
Opening Doors And Windows, By James Roose-Evans
...pride of its inception, which he helped to finance by busking the Everyman Cinema queue, of its many triumphs, including the production of Private Lives, which heralded what Noel Coward himself dubbed Dad's Renaissance, and with barely...
In this article: John Gielgud, Anglican, Robert Frost, Eleanor Farjeon, Tennessee Williams, and Leonard Woolf
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New Kerala | October 25, 2009
Kim Cattrall to head for stage after 'Sex And The City' sequel
...The City' sequel finishes. Cattrall, 53, will be leaving New York for the U.K. capital in a new production of Noel Coward's comedy, 'Private Lives', reports the Daily Star. She will be starring as Amanda opposite British actor Matthew...
In this article: Kim Cattrall, Sex and the City, London, Matthew Macfadyen, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, The Cryptogram, David Mamet, and Noel Coward
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BBC News | October 24, 2009
'Sex' star back on London stage
...Sex And the City film in New York Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall will be returning to the West End stage in the Noel Coward comedy Private Lives. Cattrall, best known for playing the outspoken Samantha Jones in the hit US TV...
In this article: Kim Cattrall, London, Sex and the City, New York, Robin Hood, Samantha Jones, and Ridley Scott
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Daily Mail | October 23, 2009
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Madonna puts on her director's cap to take on Wallis Simpson (with a little help from ex Guy)
...is thrilled that actor Matthew Macfadyen is to be the new man in her life - on stage, that is. The pair will star in Noel Coward's Private Lives, directed by Richard Eyre, with performances at the Vaudeville Theatre on the Strand for a...
In this article: Madonna, Clive Owen, Guy Ritchie, Damian Lewis, Keira Knightley, Richard Eyre, Matthew Macfadyen, and An Education
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Private Lives is a play written by Noel Coward in 1930. Coward, who also starred in the first production alongside Gertrude Lawrence and Laurence Olivier, wrote the play specifically with Lawrence in mind. The play was conceived on a trip around the world, and completed in only four days, while Coward was convalescing in the Peace Hotel (then known as the Cathay Hotel) in Shanghai after a bout of influenza. It was Coward's most enduringly successful work and is generally regarded as the high point of his career both commercially and artistically.
He had always declared that no leading lady would ever play the role of Amanda as well as Gertrude Lawrence did. But on the last evening he would ever spend in London, a friend urged him to see the new production with Maggie Smith in the part. Tired and ill, he reluctantly forced himself to go along to the Queens Theatre for the show. But at the end, he admitted that Maggie Smith's performance was the best he'd ever seen.
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