Noël Coward’s “Blithe Spirit,” that most shapely and cunning of farces, is so well made that it’s impossible to do badly—but hard to do memorably. Witness Michael Blakemore’s 2009 Broadway revival, in ...

Noël Coward’s 1941 play “Blithe Spirit” is classic material: a screwball comedy about a mystery novelist with writer’s block who is haunted by his late first wife after she is inadvertently summoned ...

Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher, and Leslie Mann are made for screwball silliness — perhaps someone will think to cast them in such a comedy, because Edward Hall's limp remake hardly befits their talents.

Angela Lansbury shows why 89 is the new 40 in this consummate Broadway and West End revival of the Noel Coward classic By Jordan Riefe Blithe Spirit Production Still - H 2014 Of course Blithe Spirit ...

Looking for a few laughs as this endless pandemic drags on? The latest take on Noel Coward’s sophisticated and supremely silly Blithe Spirit provides them. It also presents Dame Judi Dench with a role ...

For such a lighthearted play, “Blithe Spirit” was born out of misery. Noel Coward wrote it as Britain was enduring regular bombing from Germany. Indeed, his own home was wiped out, sending him to ...

Dan Stevens stars as a writer taunted by the ghost of his dead wife in this grating adaptation of the 1941 play. By Jeannette Catsoulis When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

Running time: 95 minutes. Rated PG-13 (suggestive references and some drug material). In select theaters and on demand. Fifteen minutes into the awful new movie “Blithe Spirit,” something changes: The ...

When Angela Lansbury takes the stage as Madame Arcati, the lovably outlandish medium in Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit,” a supernatural charge is instantly detectable. This five-time Tony winner doesn’t ...

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