Dear Readers, I do love a good farce. That rollicking romp with oodles of physical comedy and improbable situations. Combine that with a good comedy of manners and it’s gold. What that spells is Noël ...

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 ...

Perhaps it’s self-evident, but the ability to communicate with the dead would appear to be, in a word, “challenging.” Having never personally attended a séance, the ingredients necessary to summon a ...

A departed wife returns to haunt a neurotic British writer in Noël Coward’s classic comedy “Blithe Spirit.” The uproarious show runs at Ross Valley Players through Dec. 15. Coward is enjoying quite a ...

DECATUR - Like a ghost trapped somewhere between the physical and ethereal planes, Theatre 7's "Blithe Spirit" is a production that consistently floats somewhere between drama and comedy. Combining ...

“You’ve been commissioned to write a 90-page screenplay, not ‘War and Peace.'” With these airy words, in the opening minutes of “Blithe Spirit,” exasperated trophy wife Ruth (Isla Fisher) admonishes ...

But once a conversation with his wife, Ruth, debating the relative attractiveness of his deceased first wife, Elvira, cracks like a shot from Chekhov’s gun, trouble is as sure to come as the spirits ...

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 ...

Written as a soul soother for his beloved England, which was recovering from The Blitz and devastated by the continuing casualties of World War II, Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit was a rip-roaring ...