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The Latest Breaking News from Noël Coward

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

‘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’

The Independent UK

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‘I’m an enormously talented man’: The life of born show-off Noel Coward, 50 years on

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’

The Independent UK

Noël Coward was not just an amiable jester but a scathing social satirist

He presented himself as a message-free entertainer but, 50 years after his death, it is time to reconsider the variety of the great playwright’s work

The Guardian - UK

Masquerade: The Lives of Noël Coward by Oliver Soden review – the man in the ironic mask

A lively, affectionate but far from adulatory new biography of the playwright marks the 50th anniversary of his death and draws on unpublished letters and diaries to expose a painful private life obscured by success

The Guardian - UK

Kit Hesketh-Harvey obituary

Writer, broadcaster and half of the renowned cabaret act Kit and the Widow

The Guardian - UK

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Angela Lansbury: the scene-stealing grande dame of stage and screen for 75 years

Best-known as the novelist-sleuth Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote, Lansbury’s winning charm and towering talent stretches all the way back to the days of Noël Coward and Judy Garland

The Guardian - UK

When I Grow Up by Moya Sarner review

A journalist and psychotherapist explores what it means to be an adult in a world that often infantilises

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: Noël Coward’s unseen plays aimed to deal with homosexuality

Playwright planned scenes on same-sex relationship at a time when it was illegal and British theatres faced strict censorship

The Guardian - UK

‘After seeing Aretha Franklin you’re never the same again’: Elvis Costello’s honest playlist

He could request Frank Sinatra before he could speak, and recites Noël Coward lyrics, but what does the singer-songwriter enjoy behind closed doors?

The Guardian - UK

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