Perhaps it’s self-evident, but the ability to communicate with the dead would appear to be, in a word, “challenging.” Having never personally attended a séance, the ingredients necessary to summon a ...

Director Allison Narver does a wonderful job with the piece, keeping the action and dialog at a breakneck pace. Coward’s gift for dialog demands a fast paced back and forth and Narver gets that. There ...

To begin with, I honestly have no idea what to make of the paradoxical version of Noel Coward’s classic, comedy of British manners, “Blithe Spirit” that I encountered on stage during its opening night ...

A departed wife returns to haunt a neurotic British writer in Noël Coward’s classic comedy “Blithe Spirit.” The uproarious show runs at Ross Valley Players through Dec. 15. Coward is enjoying quite a ...

“You’ve been commissioned to write a 90-page screenplay, not ‘War and Peace.'” With these airy words, in the opening minutes of “Blithe Spirit,” exasperated trophy wife Ruth (Isla Fisher) admonishes ...

But once a conversation with his wife, Ruth, debating the relative attractiveness of his deceased first wife, Elvira, cracks like a shot from Chekhov’s gun, trouble is as sure to come as the spirits ...

Noel Coward is one of the great observers of the world’s many subtleties, an enchanter with helpings of sly, sardonic wit. Take for example what his character Madame Arcati says in the splendiferous ...

The Noel Coward/David Lean combination which turned out such dramas as Brief Encounter and This Happy Breed sets its sights on the viewer's funny bone with Blithe Spirit. Rex Harrison plays a novelist ...

In different hands, "Blithe Spirit" would be a horror story: a man haunted by the spirit of his first wife who schemes to kill him so they can be together forever in the afterworld. Thankfully, the ...