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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Noel Coward’s 1941 play “Blithe Spirit” is classic material: a comic screwball play about a mystery novelist who is haunted by his ex-wife, summoned by a medium while trying to work through his writer ...

Angela Lansbury stars as clairvoyant Madame Arcati, a role for which she won a Tony Award, in this San Francisco run of Blithe Spirit. Charles (Charles Edwards) enjoys frosty marital bliss with wife ...

KALAMAZOO - Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit" was written in 1941 for a middle-aged cast and a more sophisticated theater audience than one usually finds in a university theater where a large percentage ...

Perhaps a frivolous, longish farce like “Blithe Spirit” is out of fashion in these serious-minded days. Perhaps a pixilated production of Noel Coward’s classic comedy simply never kindles spark to ...

In Noël Coward’s 1941 play Blithe Spirit—and in the film David Lean made of it in 1941, a delectable bonbon laced with the driest of vermouth—a writer toying with the occult as research for his next ...

Ghosts are nothing new to Cape May – you can even take walking or trolley tours to hear about their alleged Victorian and post-Victorian hauntings. So there’s something right about Cape May Stage ...

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 ...

Ghost stories are supposed to be spooky. Haunted houses aren’t meant to be funny. But in the hands of oh-so-British playwright Noel Coward, the idea for his 1941 play “Blithe Spirit” turns what could ...