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The Rat Trap review – teenage Noël Coward’s jaundiced marital portrait

Bill Rosenfield reimagines the playwright’s early work about the souring relationship between two newlywed artists

The Guardian - UK

How George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four predicted the global power shifts happening now

There’s nothing new about calling George Orwell’s most influential novel prescient. But the focus has usually been on his portrayal of the oppressive aspects of life in Oceania, the superstate in which Nineteen Eighty-Four is set.

The Conversation

Dolly, Dreamgirls and Daniel Radcliffe: the biggest Broadway shows of 2026

After a record-breaking season, big stars and big revivals hope to lure in New York audiences over the next 12 months

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Stanley Baxter obituary

Scottish comedian whose spectacular sketch shows on television made him a household name

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Fallen Angels review – fizz-fuelled lust drives a Coward comedy that was almost banned

Janie Dee and Alexandra Gilbreath are excellent as wives preparing to meet an old flame in an entertainingly directed play that builds to comic chaos and a marital reckoning

The Guardian - UK

Brief Encounter at 80: why we’re still falling for David Lean’s 1945 romance

The story of hot tea and unconsummated love hails from a very different era – and was far from easy to make. Yet it remains a key influence for film-makers from Sofia Coppola to Celine Song, James Ivory to Greta Gerwig

The Guardian - UK

Take That singer Jason Orange's former West End apartment for sale for £2.85m

Jason Orange bought the newly-converted property in the Strand’s Gatti House in 2015, a year after leaving Take That

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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale review — a sparkling nostalgia lobotomy

2/5 It seems we’re all having a hard time letting go of a glorious past that never was

Evening Standard

Richard Greenberg obituary

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

The Guardian - UK

Frank Barrie obituary

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

The Guardian - UK

Alan Strachan obituary

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

The Guardian - UK

Roland Curram obituary

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

Norman Spencer obituary

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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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The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

‘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…

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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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