Noël Coward wrote Blithe Spirit in six days while on holiday, calling it an “improbable farce.” It is that, but its underlying elegance requires the characters to stay poised as the farcical elements ...

Dan Stevens stars as a writer taunted by the ghost of his dead wife in this grating adaptation of the 1941 play. By Jeannette Catsoulis When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

Noël Coward’s “Blithe Spirit,” that most shapely and cunning of farces, is so well made that it’s impossible to do badly—but hard to do memorably. Witness Michael Blakemore’s 2009 Broadway revival, in ...

Noël Coward’s ghostly comedy Blithe Spirit first hit audiences back in 1941 in the West End. However, if ghosts are real in the sense that Coward imagined them, surely he was haunting this ghastly ...

In Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit”, now on the boards at Central New York Playhouse, a comely ghost comes back from the other side to upend the happy life of her still living and now remarried spouse.

Running time: 95 minutes. Rated PG-13 (suggestive references and some drug material). In select theaters and on demand. Fifteen minutes into the awful new movie “Blithe Spirit,” something changes: The ...

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Noël Coward’s 1941 play “Blithe Spirit” is classic material: a screwball comedy about a mystery novelist with writer’s block who is haunted by his late first wife after she is inadvertently summoned ...

When Angela Lansbury takes the stage as Madame Arcati, the lovably outlandish medium in Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit,” a supernatural charge is instantly detectable. This five-time Tony winner doesn’t ...

Angela Lansbury shows why 89 is the new 40 in this consummate Broadway and West End revival of the Noel Coward classic By Jordan Riefe Blithe Spirit Production Still - H 2014 Of course Blithe Spirit ...