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The Latest Breaking News from Noël Coward

Playwright once dubbed ‘the American Noël Coward’, who skilfully poked beneath the surface of his middle-class characters’ lives

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Frank Barrie obituary

Witty and elegant actor whose roles ranged from Shakespeare to Dot Cotton’s gentleman friend in EastEnders

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Alan Strachan obituary

Director in the West End and regional theatre for five decades who often worked with the playwright Alan Ayckbourn

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Roland Curram obituary

Actor best known for playing the gay companion to Julie Christie’s good-time girl in Darling

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Lest we forget the Indian soldiers who fought for Britain

Brief letters: Lessons on war history | Noël Coward’s multitasking | Morris dancing at rugby | Nether regions | Top Tory failures

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Mitzi Gaynor death: South Pacific star dies aged 93

The Chicago-born actor also appeared in ‘There’s No Business Like Show Business’ and ‘The Birds and the Bees’

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New York theatre director blames stroke for ‘hurtful’ diversity comments

James Morgan’s colleague claimed the theatre veteran ‘yelled’ at him

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Norman Spencer obituary

Production manager and producer who worked with David Lean on The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia

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Il Segreto di Susanna/Pagliacci review – a double whammy of sexual jealousy

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s barbed 1909 comedy Il Segreto di Susanna feels like a Noël Coward play set to music, while Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci is a powerful story of a woman’s murder by an abusive partner

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Suite in Three Keys review – Noël Coward hotel trilogy stares stylishly into the abyss

Tara Fitzgerald, Emma Fielding and Stephen Boxer deftly juggle roles in this marathon of marital malaise

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Tom Allen looks back: ‘One of my coping mechanisms was to create a fantasy life, pretending to be an Edwardian aristocrat’

The comedian and presenter on hating himself in his teens, coming out, and finally finding his way

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In brief: Four Shots in the Night; The Kellerby Code; Masquerade – review

The gripping real-life story of the murder of a spy; a funny and chilling debut in hock to the Ripley books; and the definitive biography of Noël Coward

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Olivier awards 2024: complete list of nominations

Sunset Boulevard and Dear England have the most nominations at this year’s awards – see who else is in the running

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Mercedes de Acosta: The poet who had affairs with the 20th century’s most famous women

An unpublished book has emerged by the woman best known for her liaisons with Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Isadora Duncan

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‘They were the original gangsters!’: how Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen wages war on the aristocracy

King of blokey capers Guy Ritchie is back with a wild tale of a secret weed farm in a stately home – and the duke who gets drawn into a crime gang. Its stars talk about taking on the aristos, training foxes – and why women are bossing things at…

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Keith Baxter obituary

Actor and director who played Prince Hal to Orson Welles’s Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight, and triumphed in Sleuth in the West End and on Broadway

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Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward story review – fascinating portrait of a 20th-century great

Barnaby Thompson’s well-researched documentary highlights the contradictions of the sparkling playwright’s life

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From Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse to Anselm Kiefer: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether it’s Marvel’s multiverse or the German artist’s Joycean dreamworld, our critics have you covered for the next seven days

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Mad About the Boy - The Noël Coward Story review – brisk trot through life and career

Speeding through Coward’s journey from humble origins to all-round megastardom, we don’t get to engage with his complex private life

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The week in theatre: Operation Mincemeat; 4000 Miles; The Circle – review

SplitLip honour as well as spoof with their all-conquering espionage musical. Plus, Eileen Atkins at her most subtle, and a new twist on Somerset Maugham

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The week in theatre: August in England; Blue Now; The Vortex – review

Lenny Henry draws his audience deep into the life – and its shattering – of a Windrush evictee; Derek Jarman’s final film is reverentially revisited; and Lia Williams and son ignite Noël Coward at his darkest

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The Vortex review – Noël Coward’s swirling jazz age psychodrama

Lia Williams and her son Joshua James make a scintillating double act in a resonant revival of the 1924 hit

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Somerset Maugham: a wily playwright of light dramas and weighty morals

A new revival of The Circle is a reminder of a dramatist who smuggled vital messages into broad crowdpleasers

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Private Lives review – Coward’s comedy becomes a stark theatre of cruelty

Stephen Mangan and Rachael Stirling bare their teeth in a show that dials up the violence and sometimes struggles to navigate the humour

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‘I’m an enormously talented man’: The life of born show-off Noel Coward

As a major new biography about Noel Coward is published half a century on from his death, Martin Chilton looks back on the life of the trailblazing playwright with ‘a talent to amuse’

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