http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-2932-noel-coward/topic-rss.do Noel Coward RSS feed http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23765699-nicky-haslam-lord-of-the-dance.do Nicky Haslam has been to more parties than anyone and knows how to make an evening fizz: start planning three months ahead; decorate the ceiling; invite Paris Hilton; and never, ever engage the host in conversation 2009-11-06T15:04:19Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23764296-kelly-brook-looks-pleased-with-calendar-debut.do Kelly Brook looks delighted after her debut in the play Calendar Girls — in which she appears nude, her modesty protected by a couple of iced buns. 2009-11-04T10:10:47Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23757344-darling-im-not-name-dropping-im-networking.do Never mind the six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Nicky Haslam's forthcoming memoirs, Redeeming Features, has set a whole new benchmark for the small world phenomenon 2009-10-16T07:39:40Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/comedy/review-23702519-raising-a-laugh-for-orangaid.do The Sumatran Orangutan Society does not monkey about when it comes to organising star-studded benefits. 2009-06-01T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23687488-telling-tales-with-john-standing.do It's odd to find an Englishman in Jeff Harnar's American Songbook in London series but John Standing is no ordinary Englishman. 2009-05-07T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23663039-war-horse-leads-the-charge-as-west-end-shows-sell-5million-tickets-in-advance.do A peculiar triumvirate of Waiting For Godot, Calendar Girls and War Horse is heading a storming start to the year in West End theatre with almost £5million in advance ticket sales 2009-03-17T08:48:23Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23662576-high-spirits-as-rupert-everett-becomes-the-ghostly-toast-of-broadway.do Crowning one of the most unpredictable careers in showbusiness, Rupert Everett woke up this morning a Broadway star 2009-03-16T09:35:10Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23584752-hampstead-theatre-marks-50-years-with-mix-of-old-and-new.do The Hampstead Theatre is celebrating its 50th anniversary by reviving past hits from the likes of Noel Coward and Michael Frayn 2008-11-11T08:50:58Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/review-23583060-unbelievable-coward-in-easy-virtue.do Easy Virtue purports to be about the fading aristo lifestyle after the First World War and the injection into it of American flash. 2008-11-06T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/review-23579692-jessica-slips-into-easy-virtue.do How clever of director Stephan Elliott to cast Jessica Biel in Noel Coward’s critique of English snobbery, says Nick Curtis. 2008-10-29T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/restaurants/review-23571245-eat-well-at-dinings.do Dinings has that intangible 'something' at the heart of every successful restaurant.It is definitely worth a visit. 2008-10-12T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23550956-love-and-the-terror-in-liberty.do Based on Anatole France's 1912 novel Les Dieux ont soif, Liberty starts in May 1793, when the Reign of Terror is flourishing. 2008-09-03T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23522895-when-fraud-becomes-just-another-fun-word-game.do We all love a good literary hoax. With literary (as opposed to commercial) fraud, there seems less at stake. No lives are lost, no crime is committed. Better still, it is usually a con aimed at the pretentious arts establishment 2008-07-29T08:05:19Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23479906-an-encounter-worth-extending.do Brief Encounter provides an evening of wry, affectionate, inventive and moving theatrical exuberance, performed by a talented cast. 2008-04-22T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23478252-cafe-royal-to-be-given-a-six-star-makeover-in-90m-hotel-deal.do The historic Cafe Royal is to be transformed into a "six star" hotel after the Regent Street building changed hands in a £90 million deal 2008-04-14T09:19:59Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23443186-riveting-felicity-draws-us-into-the-vortex.do Peter Hall's production of The Vortex catches Noel Coward's comedy but not enough of his underlying seriousness. 2008-02-27T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-23439569-my-affair-with-brief-encounter.do Director Emma Rice explains how she took Noël Coward's classic weepie off the big screen and into the theatre 2008-02-19T10:57:43Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23439001-close-encounter-with-exquisite-but-doomed-affair.do Adapted for the stage, Noel Coward's classic Brief Encounter eloquently catches the repressed, self-destructive aspect of mid-Forties, middle England sexuality. 2008-02-18T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/review-23437099-coward-at-his-languid-best.do A small, excellently choreographed show which will thrill every dedicated Noel Coward fan and be a revelation to newcomers. 2008-02-12T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/events/article-23434971-what-to-do-this-valentines-day.do From riding the London Eye to dinner at Kew Gardens and cheering on a dog at Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium, we take at look at the activities on offer this Valentine's Day. 2008-01-30T16:33:19Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-23431481-brief-encounter-returns-to-its-west-end-roots.do Brief Encounter has come full circle as a theatrical version by the Kneehigh Theatre Company opens at Haymarket's Cineworld. 2008-01-09T12:29:35Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23431462-cowards-slight-masterpiece.do The critics slaughtered Present Laughter when it opened, but Liz Hoggard found her night at the Noël Coward comedy one of the frothiest, most entertaining of the year. 2008-01-09T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23427391-jazz-pianist-treats-his-audience.do Dominic Alldis is an engaging Brit who reveres the Great American Songbook but refuses to sing it in a New York accent. 2007-12-13T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-23426689-back-into-dragons-den-for-felicity.do Former Good Life star Felicity Kendal is to play a glamorous socialite and man-eating mother in Noel Coward's play The Vortex. 2007-12-10T14:59:09Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23418782-lacking-zing.do Gavin McAlinden's production of You Can't Take It With You lacks zing and is effortful where it should be effervescent. 2007-10-30T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23418264-schlocky-titillation.do Terror 2007 is grubby little evening of cheap, schlocky titillation. Quite who would be enticed to see it is beyond critic Fiona Mountford. 2007-10-25T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23414847-matinee-idle.do There is some comic pleasure in Noël Coward's Present Laughter, but this old commercial warhorse of a play could use updating. 2007-10-02T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23382645-revelatory-will-finds-key-to-coward-classic.do It has taken more than 80 years and the performance of Will Young to bring out the full truth about Nicky Lancaster, Noël Coward's angry young man in The Vortex. 2007-01-23T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-23380194-will-to-play-cowards-gay-stage-role.do Will Young is to make his theatrical debut in a controversial play which catapulted Noel Coward to fame. 2007-01-02T13:28:20Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23376925-heroic-effort-by-a-young-coward.do Written in 1918, when he was only 18 and not revived since a brief London run in 1926, Noel Coward's The Rat Trap is an absolute revelation. 2006-12-04T00:00:00Z